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Evergreen Barberries. The four Cbinese evergreen Barberries, Ber~ 
beris Julianae, B. Sargentiana, B. verruculosa and B. Gagnepainii, 
from which so much has been expected, have suffered seriously. B. 
•Julianae and B. Sargentiana will probably not recover, and there is 
little hope that much garden beauty will ever be obtained in this region 
from evergreen Barberries, for all the Mahonias which have been 
grown here are in unusually bad condition this spring, with the excep- 
tion of the dwarf Makonia or Berberis r-epens from the Rocky Moun~ 
trins, and even this has lost many of its leaves. All the forms of the 
European Box, although carefully protected, have suffered badly and 
some have been killed. Even the Japanese Box (Buxus japonica), 
which has been growing in an exposed position here for twenty years 
without protection, will lose for the first time some of its leaves from 
the ends of the branches. This handsome plant has suffered, however, 
less than might have been expected, and if Box is to be planted in 
eastern Massachusetts with the expectation that it will be a permanent 
garden ornament it is this Japanese species which must be used. The 
Chinese climbing Honeysuckle {Lonicera Henryi), which had proved 
perfectly hardy until last winter and from which much was expected, 
has lost all its leaves, but as its stems are still alive it may recover. 
Teucrium chamaedrys and Salvia officinalis are nearly killed, and 
Daphne cneorum, which has usually done well in the Arboretum, has 
suffered seriously in the Shrub Collection and on Azalea Path. The 
two evergreen Chinese Viburnums which have lived in the Arboretum 
for several years. Viburnum rhytidophyllum and F, buddleifolium^ 
have lost all their leaves but may possibly recover. 
Thanks probably to the abundant rains of the summer and autumn, 
the Rhododendrons in the Arboretum have suffered less than they did 
three years ago, although in some of the gardens near Boston the loss 
of these plants has been more serious than ever before, whole planta- 
tions which have been growing for thirty or forty years having been 
destroyed. In the Arboretum the only species which has suffered is 
R. micranthum, the only evergreen Chinese Rhododendron which has 
ever lived long enough in the Arboretum to flower and which has now 
lost many of its upper branches. There are dead branches on some of 
the Catawbiense hybrids, and among them, in addition to a number of 
hybrid seedlings sent to the Arboretum for trial by an English nursery, 
the following have been killed: James Smith, Marshall Brooks, Mrs. 
Thomas Agnew, Marquis of Waterford and Corner Waterer. One speci- 
men of Mrs. C. S. Sargent, which has always been considered one of the 
hardiest of all the Catawbiense hybrids, has been so injured that it will 
have to be removed. Rhododendron azaleoides, or fragrans, one of the 
hybrids between a Rhododendron and an Azalea, has also been killed. 
Prunus incisa has bloomed in the Arboretum every spring for three 
or four years but has never been as full of flowers or as beautiful as 
it has been during the present week. This Cherry is a native of Japan 
and is abundant on the eastern and southern slopes of Fuji-san and on 
the Hakone Mountains. It is a large shrub or under favorable condi- 
tions a small tree twenty-five or thirty feet high; the flowers appear 
before the deeply cut leaves in drooping clusters; their calyx is bright 
