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shrub in the Arboretum and are soon followed every year by innu- 
merable yellow flowers. The hardiness, rapid growth, sturdiness and 
the abundant spines on the stems should make this a good hedge plant. 
Of the numerous species of the genus Corylopsis cultivated in the 
Arboretum only the Japanese C. Gotoana escaped serious injury last 
winter. Like all the species of this genus, it bears drooping clusters 
of yellow flowers which appear before the leaves, which resemble 
those of the Witch Hazel to which Corylopsis is related. This beau- 
•tiful shrub has flowered here now for several years and has shown 
itself worthy of a place among the best plants of recent introduction. 
The list can be completed with Aesculus georgiana and Spiraea 
Veitchii. The former is a dwarf Buckeye from central Georgia, with 
compact clusters of large red and yellow flowers. This shrub was in- 
troduced into gardens by the Arboretum and has now flowered here 
for several years. As it was not injured by the cold of last winter 
it can probablj’^ be considered hardy in Massachusetts. Spiraea Veitchii 
is one of the plants discovered by Wilson in western China. It is a 
large shrub sometimes ten or twelve feet high, with gracefully arching 
stems above' which the wide clusters of white flowers stand at the 
ends of short lateral branchlets. It is one of the latest of the white- 
flowered Spiraeas to bloom and is, now in flower in the Arboretum 
where it has proved entirely hardy. 
The fruits of Acer tataricum are already bright red and make this 
little tree a conspicuous and attractive object. The bright blue fruits 
of Lonicera coerulea and its numerous geographical varieties, and the 
scarlet, red and yellow fruits of the Tartarian Honeysuckle and its 
varieties and hybrids are now ripe. And from now until March per- 
sons interested in the handsome fruits of trees and shrubs can find 
them in great variety in the Arboretum. 
With this issue these Bulletins will now be discontinued until the 
autumn. 
