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leaves which at the end of vigorous branches are often broad at base. 
The flowers with ten stamens and large yellow anthers, are nearly an 
inch in diameter, and are arranged in hairy, from three- to six-flowered 
clusters. The fruit is borne on erect stems, and is subglobose with 
flattened ends, or short-oblong or pear-shaped, and is bright yellow or 
orange with a red cheek, hairy at the ends and about half an inch in 
diameter. C. modesta was discovered near Rutland, Vermont; it grows 
also in eastern New York, Connecticut, and Berks County, Pennsylvania. 
The Chinese Flowering Dogwood. This form of the Japanese Cornus 
from western China which was discovered and introduced by Wilson is 
showing this week more clearly than ever before its value as a garden plant 
in this part of the country, for the specimen among the Chinese plants 
on the southern slope of Bussey Hill has not before been so wreathed in 
flowers. The bracts under the flower-clusters, which are the conspicu- 
ous features of the inflorescence in all the so-called Flowering Dogwoods, 
are broader than those of the Japanese form and overlap below the 
middle, so that they form, like those of the American species, a cup at 
the end of the branch. The seeds of the Asiatic Flowering Dogwoods 
are united into a solid globose mass, but in the American species do not 
become united. The Chinese Flowering Dogwood is rare in cultivation, 
and the specimen in the Arboretum is probably the only large one in 
this country. For several years the Arboretum plant has ripened a 
few seeds and it is not impossible that this year the seeds may be more 
numerous. It is an interesting fact that here in Massachusetts the 
Chinese and Japanese Flowering Dogwoods are hardier than the native 
species, for Cornus fiorida loses many of its floral bracts in severe 
winters, and is often killed or severely injured here in winters like the 
last which greatly injured the bracts of most of these trees in this part 
of the country. 
Rosa Moyesii, which was introduced by Wilson from western China 
and which has received a great deal of attention in England and in the 
middle United States where it is greatly valued as a garden plant, and 
as a parent in breeding new races of Roses, has proved until this year 
a failure in the Arboretum. The plants have not usually been entirely 
hardy here, and the flowers have been few and of poor quality. The 
plants, however, on the southern slope of Bussey Hill were not injured 
last winter and is now covered with flowers. Rosa Moyesii is a large 
shrub up to ten feet in height, with stout branches sparingly armed 
with short straight prickles and blood red flowers from an inch and a 
half to two inches and a half in diameter. The deep orange-red fruit 
is two and one half inches long, contracted below the apex, and as 
beautiful as the flowers. 
Rhododendron (Azalea) calendulaceum, the flame Azalea of the south- 
ern Appalachian forests, which has been planted in numbers on Azalea 
Path and is scattered through the Arboretum shrubberies, is now the 
most conspicuous plant in the Arboretum. The most brilliant of the 
Azaleas which can be grown in the north, its only rival as the most 
beautiful flowering shrub in North America is the Laurel (Kalmia 
latifolia). 
