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plants in the autumn, Enkianihus perulatus, is a compact round-headed 
shrub with white flowers. This is a popular plant in Japan and can 
be seen in many Japanese gardens cut into a round ball. It has never 
produced seeds in the Arboretum, and has remained exceedingly rare 
in this country. More common is E. campanulatus, which is sometimes 
in Japan a tree twenty-five or thirty feet tall and which in the Arbore- 
tum has grown from seed in thirty years into a narrow shrub eight or 
ten feet tall. The yellow flowers tinged with red, or in one variety 
pure white, hanging gracefully in long racemes, are attractive. This 
plant produces quantities of seeds every year, and there is no reason 
why it should not become a common garden plant in those parts of 
America where the soil is free of lime. 
Ligustrum vulgare. Attention has been often called in these Bulle- 
tins to the value of the common European Privet, Ligustrum vulgare. 
In recent years much attention has been paid by botanists and gar- 
deners to the Privets of eastern Asia, where many species have been 
discovered. None of these, however, are as valuable in this climate as 
the European species which is perhaps the handsomest of all the hardy 
black-fruited shrubs. The bright shining fruit is borne in compact 
clusters which stand up well on the ends of the branches above the 
dark green lustrous leaves and remain on the plants during the early 
winter months. and after the dark green leaves have fallen. Formerly 
this was a common garden plant in the northern states and is now 
sparingly naturalized in some parts of the country. There is a form 
with yellow fruit which is much less beautiful than the type, and there 
is a variety foliolosa in the Arboretum collection which has rather nar- 
rower leaves and larger fruit. This shrub, although apparently little 
known in our gardens, is one of the handsomest of all the shrubs here 
at this season of the year. 
Crataegus phaenopyrum, formerly called C. cordata, the Washington 
Thorn, is not as well known as it was perhaps one hundred years ago 
when less attention was given to American Hawthorns, and it appears 
to have been frequently used then in the middle states as a hedge plant. 
Near the group of Crataegus punctata on the Bussey Hill Overlook are 
two large plants. It is a narrow tree sometimes thirty feet tall, with 
erect branches and small, nearly triangular lustrous leaves which are 
now beginning to turn bright scarlet. The small globose fruits are also 
turning scarlet and will remain on the branches until spring with little 
loss of beauty. This is the latest of all the species of Hawthorn in the 
Arboretum to flower. The only drawback to this handsome little tree 
is found in the brittleness of the branches which are often broken by 
high winds. 
