flavoramea), and Comics Baileyi are now ripe, while the flowers on the 
other species of the group have not yet faded. Handsomer even than 
the fruit of these species are the pale blue fruits of Comus rugosa or 
circinata which, although now nearly fully grown, will not ripen for a 
few weeks. This is one of the most ornamental of the native Dogwoods, 
with large, round, oval leaves pale on their lower surface and large flat 
clusters of pale yellow flowers. 
The abundant fruits of Viburnum americanum , the so-called High- 
bush Cranberry of the northeastern part of the country, are now more 
than half grown and light yellow; later they will become scarlet and very 
lustrous and continue to ornament the plants until spring. 
There are not many more trees to flower this year. Flowers still con- 
tinue to open occasionally on Magnolia glauca and rain will probably pro- 
duce a second crop of flowers on Magnolia cordata. These plants are on 
the right of the Jamaica Plain entrance. 
The Sorrel-tree, Oxydendron arboreum , is just opening its flowers 
which are borne in large terminal panicles. This is one of the interesting 
North American trees and is the only representative of an Appalachian 
genus. The long, narrow leaves are dark green and shining, and have a 
strong acid flavor to which this tree owes its name. Hardy, fast-grow- 
ing, late-flowering, with handsome flowers, and foliage splendid in the 
autumn, and saved apparently by its acid juices from the attacks of in- 
sects, this tree is too little known. It can be seen at the eastern base of 
Hemlock Hill on the left-hand side of Hemlock Road where several indi- 
viduals are growing among the Kalmias. 
Sophora japonica is now covered with flower-buds, but the small pea- 
shaped, white flowers will not open probably for two or three weeks. 
This tree is a native of China but first reached Europe and the United 
States from Japan where it was introduced by Buddhist priests more 
than a thousand years ago. It is a very hardy tree, of good habit, with 
dark green leaves and branchlets, and the fact that it flowers late in the 
summer adds to its value. It grows to a larger size than any of the trees 
which have been planted in Peking, and the old trees there from a dis- 
tance look like venerable Oaks. There are a few large individuals in 
Europe where it was first planted more than one hundred and fifty years 
ago, but it is not very often seen in this country. In the Arboretum it 
is growing on the right-hand side of the Bussey Hill Road opposite the 
upper end of the Lilac Group. There is a large specimen in the Public 
Garden of Boston. 
Of summer-flowering shrubs the handsomest now in bloom is Stuartia 
pentagyna. This plant belongs to the same family as the Camellia, and 
the white cup-shaped flowers are not unlike those of a single Camellia. 
This 'is a native of the southern Appalachian region and very hardy in the 
Arboretum. Stuartia pseudocamellia, a native of the mountains of 
Japan, is a taller plant, tree-like inhabit, with rather smaller flowers. 
It is not yet in flower. These plants can be seen in the Shrub Collection. 
Another plant now in flower in the Shrub Collection, Amorpha canes - 
cens, or the Lead Plant, deserves attention. This is a member of the 
Pea Family with leaves and stems whitened with hoary down and small 
