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little value for those who want a plant with the peculiar habit of L, 
Morrotvii. This species is a native of northern Japan and eastern 
Siberia, and one of the handsomest of the Bush Honeysuckles. It is 
a comparatively low round-headed shrub with the lower branches which 
cling close to the ground and spread over an area much broader than 
the height of the plant. The leaves are gray-green and the flowers 
are large, pale yellow and white; the fruit, which remains a long time 
on the branches, is red and lustrous. The shrub was introduced into 
the United States by the Arboretum many years ago and at one time 
was largely planted in the Boston parks where there can still be seen 
some large specimens. Attention is also called to the different forms 
of the Tartarian Honeysuckle L. tatarica, with white, pink and rose- 
colored flowers, L. minutiflora, L. muscaviensis, L. Xylosteum, L. 
orientalis, L. chrysantha, one of the earliest of the group to bloom, 
L. bella, L. notha and L. microphylla. This very attractive little 
bush, a native of central Asia, is now in flower. The pale canary 
yellow flowers are longer than the small pale blue leaves and stand 
well up above them; the bright red, long-stalked fruit of this shrub is 
also attractive. 
Mountain Ashes. On the right-hand side of the path leading to the 
Shrub Collection from the Forest Hills Gate are now in flower or 
will soon be in flower, a number of these plants, including the two 
of northeastern North America, Sorbus americana, and its variety 
decora. These are large shrubs or small trees and less showy perhaps 
when in flower than some of the Old World species; they surpass, how- 
ever, all other plants of this genus in the brilliancy of their fruit, and 
in the size of their fruit clusters. The autumn coloring of the leaves 
of these plants, too, is beautiful. There is another collection of Moun- 
tain Ashes, principally Asiatic, on the left-hand side of the Valley Road 
near the group of Swamp White Oaks {Quercus bicolor) and several of 
these plants are now in bloom. There is a good specimen of the 
Japanese Sorbus alnifolia, one of the simple-leaved species, now in 
flower on the right-hand side of the Forest Hills Road near the Wis- 
taria trellis. This is a shapely, hardy tree which was raised at the 
Arboretum from seed twenty-five years ago and is well worth a place 
in Massachusetts gardens. All the species of Sorbus are liable to in- 
jury from the San Jose scale, but this can be easily controlled by 
spraying the trees late in March or in early April with a solution of 
lime-sulphur or with scalyside. 
Aesculus arguta. This little shrub, which is a native of eastern 
Texas and Oklahoma, is blooming for the first time in the Arboretum 
and probably for the first time in cultivation. Its relation is with the 
Ohio Buckeye; it has leaves of seven or nine narrow, long-pointed, 
pale leaflets, long, many-flowered clusters of pale yellow flowers and 
fruit covered with prickles. This shrub is common near Dallas and in 
Cherokee County, Texas, where it was first distinguished, and in 
Oklahoma, it ranges further west than the other Buckeyes. The plants 
in the Arboretum collection have been raised from seeds collected in 
central Oklahoma. Some of the other little known southern Buckeyes 
have escaped injury and will soon be in bloom. Among them are the 
