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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
March, 1917 
Witch Hazels in the Arnold 
Arboretum 
f | *HE winter season deprives us of a lot of 
pleasure out-of-doors in its lack of 
flowering trees and shrubs. The Witch Hazels, 
give us a tide-over of flowers usually from 
September to March and should be more 
generally grown around winter residences. 
Most of us are familiar with the common 
Hamamehs virginiana of our eastern woods, 
a very common shrub from Nova Scotia to 
Florida, generally found on the borders of 
woods or by the sides of rocky streams. 
The yellowish flowers of the native Witch Hazel appearing 
with the old fruit make a pretty winter picture 
Its flowers appear in late autumn, as the 
fruit of the previous year is ripening and 
often the leaves change color. The petals 
are strap-shaped, of a bright yellow color 
with a calyx dull brownish yellow inside. 
This plant is usually raised from seed. 
Another little known American species is 
the spring flowering Witch Hazel, Hamamelis 
vernalis, a low-growing shrub seldom morethan 
six feet high and differing from the former in 
spreading by means of stolons which eventually 
form a thicket. 1 he flowers are not so 
large nor of such a bright yellow as those of 
Hamamelis virginiana, but the inside of the 
calvx is a dark red color. The leaves also 
differ by being more of a dull green. Its chief 
attraction comes by flowering usually during 
January or February and seems to have no 
objection to any degree of frost experienced 
here. It may be propagated by grafting on 
H. virginiana, or by division. 
Before H. vernalis has finished flowering the 
beautiful China Silky Witch Hazel, Hamamelis 
mollis, comes out. 1 his is a native of Central 
China and bears large leaves densely tomen- 
tose below and holds most of these usually 
till after the flowers have opened. It forms 
a bush or small tree, and bears large flowers 
of a bright golden yellow, with petals § of an 
inch long, broader than any of those in the 
other varieties and less twisted, and the 
calyx is of a purplish red color inside. A very 
desirable plant to grow and easily grafted 
on the common Witch Hazel. 
For a further selection of these shrubs we 
have the Japanese Witch Hazel, Hamamelis 
japonica, and its variety arborea, both with 
the same yellow colored flowers contrasting 
effectively with the rich red calyx. With us 
H. japonica is more erect growing than the 
var. arborea; both flower in February. 
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