BULLETIN NO. 12. 
From this time until April of next year the Arboretum will be interest- 
ing from the fruits which are to be seen here. Nothing so surprises and 
delights European visitors who come to the Arboretum in summer and 
autumn as the profusion of showy fruits which are produced here by 
many trees and shrubs. The Arboretum has done a useful service in 
bringing together all the wild forms of the plants which bear showy 
fruits, and in making known their value as ornaments of American gar- 
dens; and among the Crabapples, Plums, Cherries, Roses, Currants, Cor- 
nels, Privets, Buckthorns, Barberries, Elders, Hawthorns, Elseagnus, 
Celastrus, Evonymous, Panax, and other plants with fleshy fruits the 
student and the gardener in search of useful plants will find here now and 
for several months much to investigate. 
The Bush Honeysuckles are now the handsomest plants with ripe 
fruits. They produce fruit in great quantities and it remaps in good 
condition for several weeks. On different species there are blue, black, 
orange, yellow, crimson and scarlet fruits; and the fruit of some of the 
hybrids is more beautiful than that of their parents. The orange-yellow 
translucent fruit of Lonicera minutiflora is perhaps now the most beau- 
tiful in the collection. This plant is a hybrid between one of the Tarta- 
rian Honeysuckles {Lonicera tartarica) from central Asia and Lonicera 
Morrowii from eastern Siberia. Another handsome plant now is Lonicera 
muscaviensis, with large and translucent scarlet fruit. This is a hybrid 
between two species of eastern Siberia, Lonicera Ruprechtiana and 
Lonicera Morrowii. Other plants now covered with ripe fruit are the 
Tartarian Honeysuckle and its yellow-fruited variety; Lonicera bella and 
Lonicera notha with crimson fruit; Lonicera Morrowii with dull crimson 
fruit; Lonicera xylosteum with large, dark crimson, lustrous fruit, and 
Lonicera xylostyoides with large red fruits. On other species the fruit 
is not yet half grown, so that for a long time there will be much of in- 
terest to see in this collection which is one of the most complete in the 
Arboretum. 
The fruits of some of the Chokecherries in the group at the entrance of 
the Shrub Collection close to the Forest Hills Gate are beginning to ripen. 
The most unusual is the yellow-fruited form (var. leucocarpa) of the 
eastern Chokecherry, Prunus virginiana. This yellow-fruited Cherry is 
common in some parts of the Province of Quebec and occasionally reaches 
the Canadian markets. The fruit is large, light yellow, translucent and 
of a better flavor than that of the common Chokecherry. 
The fruit of Elaeagnus longipes still remains on the branches, although 
it has been ripe for several weeks. This hardy Japanese shrub flowers 
and fruits here profusely. The fruit hangs gracefully on long slender 
stems and is oblong, scarlet, lustrous and covered with small, white dots. 
It has a tart and rather agreeable flavor. This plant can be seen on the 
left-hand side of the Bussey Hill Road above the Lilacs in the Elseagnus 
Group. 
The white fruits of Cornus stolonifera, the Red Osier Dogwood or 
Cornel of eastern North America and its yellow-fruited variety (var. 
