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crimson lustrous fruit which hangs gracefully on long slender stalks, 
and is larger and more beautiful than that of any other Burning Bush 
in the collection. Still rare and little known in gardens, it is an orna- 
mental shrub of the first class in this climate. 
Cotoneasters. The fruit of some of the species, like that of C. race- 
mosa soongarica, was ripe in August This is one of the handsomest 
of the new Chinese species when the long gracefully arching branches 
are covered with its erect clusters of white flowers, and when these 
are followed by the abundant showy orange-red fruit. All the forms 
of C. horizontalis are still covered with their small lustrous leaves and 
small bright red fruit. Of this group the var. purpusilla is proving 
the best garden plant here. Other red-flowered species which are now 
at their best are C. adpressa and C. apiculuta, low growing species 
with spreading stems. Handsome, too, now are the large growing 
C. davurica, C. DieLsiana, and C. Francheltii, for they are also cov- 
ered with green leaves and red fruit. C. nitens, a species with red 
flowers and small black fruit, is also a handsome autumn plant for 
none of the Chinese Cotoneasters have more lustrous leaves and more 
gracefully spreading and drooping branches. 
Lor.icera Maackii var. podocarpa. Of the plants in the Arboretum 
conspicuous at this time for the beauty of their fruit none perhaps is 
more beautiful than this Honeysuckle which was introduced by Wilson 
from central China. It is a large, vigorous and hardy shrub with wide- 
spreading branches and open habit. The flowers are larger than those 
of most Honeysuckles and are white, and in one form white slightly 
tinged with rose color. The period of the greatest beauty of this plant, 
however, is late October, for now it is still covered with bright green 
leaves and the large scarlet, lustrous fruits are only just ripe. The 
best specimens of this Honeysuckle in the Arboretum can be seen in 
the collection of Chinese shrubs on the southern slope of Bussey Hill. 
Some American Plum-trees. For the beauty of their fruit some of 
the Plum-trees from the region which extends from southern Illinois 
to Oklahoma and northern Texas are among the most important addi- 
tions which in recent years have been made to gardens. The bright 
scarlet fruit of some of the species ripens in October when the leaves 
are still fresh, green and lustrous: and in October there is not a Crab- 
apple or a Hawthorn which equals them in beauty. Many of the Plum- 
trees are growing in the Arboretum which is responsible for their in- 
troduction into northern gardens, but to see them in their beauty it is 
necessary to visit the parks of Rochester, New York, for in the Arbor- 
etum it is now necessary to pick the fruit before it ripens, that the 
plants may not be broken down by boys who appear to be less lawless 
in Rochester than they are in Boston. The best of these plants for 
autumn decoration are Prunus hortulana, the handsomest and one of 
the largest of all Plum-trees (the largest Arboretum specimen was 
entirely ruined by boys a few years ago); P. Reverchonii, which grows 
on the prairies of northern Texas as a low shrub but in cultivation 
becomes a small tree, and some of the large Oklahoma forms of P. 
angustifolia. Lovers of plants will be repaid by an autumn journey 
to Rochester to see the Plum-collections. 
