Mississippi valley, and a double-flowered form of this known as the Bech- 
tel Crab. This small tree was found a few years ago in one of the west- 
ern states. It produces in great quantities double pink flowers which 
look like small clustered Roses and is certainly one of the most charming 
of all hardy flowering trees. There are large plants of these Crabapples 
at the foot of the wooded slope opposite the junction of the Forest Hills 
and Meadow Roads. 
The Sheepberry or Nannyberry of northern woods and roadsides, 
Viburnum Lentago, is now conspicuous in many parts of the Arboretum. 
This is a large shrub or small round-headed tree with lustrous leaves and 
large flat clusters of pale cream-colored flowers, which in the autumn are 
followed by sweet dark blue fruits. Although one of the most beautiful 
and desirable of the shrubs of the northern United States, the Nanny- 
berry is too seldom found in American parks and gardens. Equally beau- 
tiful and of rather more tree-like habit, Viburnum prunifolium of the 
middle states has now opened its flat clusters of white flowers. Plants of 
these Viburnums can be found on the right-hand side of the Bussey Hill 
Road where also the shrubby Viburnum pubescens is coming into flower. 
This is an American species with slender stems spreading into large 
clumps and small abundant clusters of white flowers. 
On the left-hand side of the Bussey Hill Road, above the Lilacs, are 
two plants in flower of Symplocos crataegoides, a native of eastern Asia 
and one of the most beautiful flowering shrubs which Japan has contrib- 
uted to our gardens. The small white flowers are produced in abundant 
clusters, but the great beauty of this plant is in the autumn when the 
branches are covered with small bright blue berries of a color not often 
seen in northern gardens. Evidently a plant which depends on favorable 
conditions of soil and climate, for it does not flourish in western Europe 
or even in western New York. Symplocos crataegoides is entirely at 
home in the Arboretum where it flowers and produces its fruits every 
year. 
Not many of the small yellow-flowered shrubs from southern Europe, 
of the Pea Family, which are familiar and beautiful objects in European 
gardens, flourish in New England, but Cytisus purgans is now covered 
with flowers and seems quite at home in the Shrub Collection. 
The most interesting plants, however, now in flower in the Shrub Col- 
lection will be found among the Honeysuckles (Lonicera). Of all the 
shrubs introduced by the Arboretum into New England none is now more 
generally cultivated or has proved more valuable than Lonicera Mor- 
rowii , a native of northern Japan. This in cultivation here is a broad 
high bush with wide-spreading lower branches clinging close to the 
ground. The pale blue-green foliage is pleasant in tone and the yellow 
flowers are produced in the greatest profusion. This remarkable shrub, 
which seems to grow here more vigorously than it does in J apan, has been 
largely planted in several of the Boston parks. Two charming plants 
now in bloom are Lonicera amoena and Lonicera amoena Arnoldiana, 
the latter a product of the Arboretum. They are garden hybrids of the 
Tartarian Honeysuckle and a species of central Asia, Lonicera Korol- 
kowii, and are graceful shrubs with silvery gray foliage and slender, 
