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seeds collected the previous year by Professor Sargent in Japan. The 
original plants here are now dense mats of bright green foliage ten 
feet across and only a few inches high. 
Picea glauca var. albertiana conica. The original plant of this little 
Spruce was found in 1904 near Banff in Alberta by Professor Jack and 
the largest plants now in cultivation are only about three feet tall. No 
other dwarf Spruce is so pyramidal in habit and so dense in foliage, 
and Professor Jack’s introduction proves to be one of the most inter- 
esting and distinct of all the dwarf conifers. Much attention has been 
paid to it in England during the last two or three years and it is now 
found in a few American nurseries. 
Callicarpa japonica. The so-called French Mulberry, Callicarpa 
americana, in late autumn and early winter when it is covered with 
its violet colored fruit is one of the handsomest shrubs of the southern 
states where it is common and attracts the attention and curiosity of 
northern travelers. The French Mulberry unfortunately is not hardy 
in New England, but it can be well replaced here by a Japanese and 
Korean member of the genus, Callicarpa japonica. This shrub was 
first cultivated in the Parsons’ Nursery at Flushing, Long Island, sixty 
years ago. It soon disappeared from American gardens but was raised 
at the Arboretum in 1887 and has now been well established here for 
many years. It is a smaller shrub than the American species with 
smaller leaves and smaller, rather lighter-colored, lustrous violet fruit. 
The Korean form of this plant, which has been growing in the Arbor- 
etum since 1904, is a more vigorous plant with rather larger fruit. This 
autumn the fruit has been unusually abundant and the Korean Calli- 
carpa has been one of the most beautiful objects in the Arboretum. 
The attention of lovers of hardy shrubs is again called to the beauty 
and value of this plant. Other Asiatic species in the collection are the 
Japanese and Korean Callicarpa dichotoma and the west China C. Gi- 
raldii. The latter is not very hardy and has not produced fruit here 
yet, and C. dichotoma, which is hardy, ripens its fruit very late and 
as an ornamental plant is inferior to C. japonica. These Callicarpas 
are arranged in a group on the upper side of Azalea Path close to its 
entrance from the Bussey Hill Road. 
Ilex serrata. The two so-called Black Alders of the United States, 
Ilex vcrticillata and Ilex laevigata, have not before in the Arboretum 
been more thickly covered with their bright red fruit which remains 
on the branches long after the leaves have fallen and makes them con- 
spicuous objects during the last two months of the year. Although 
smaller than that of the American species, the fruit of the Japanese 
Hex serrata is more lustrous and even more beautiful. This is a nar- 
row and more slender shrub than the American Black Alders which in 
Japan is common and widely distributed, and grows to the height of 
twelve or fifteen feet. It is hardy in the Arboretum where it has been 
growing for many years by Hickory Path near Centre Street, and where 
the plants are now covered with fruit which will remain on the branches 
until the leaves unfold in the spring. 
These Bulletins will now be discontinued until next spring. 
