The leaves of many of the climbing Honeysuckles are often disfigured 
by attacks of an aphis and can only be kept in good condition by care- 
ful spraying early in the season and just as the leaves are unfolding. 
The Bush Honeysuckles are now the handsomest plants in the Arbore- 
tum with ripe fruits. They produce fruit in great quantities and it re- 
mains in good condition for several weeks, and as the different species 
ripen their fruit from now until October the second period of their 
beauty is a long one. On different species and hybrids there are blue, 
black, orange, yellow, crimson and scarlet fruits, and these beautiful 
and abundant fruits following beautiful flowers make some of the Bush 
Honeysuckles extremely desirable garden plants especially in the north- 
ern United States where they are very hardy and where they appear 
to fruit more freely than in other parts of the world. The orange- 
yellow translucent fruit of Lonicera minutiflora is one of the most 
beautiful perhaps in the collection. This plant is a hybrid between the 
Tartarian Honeysuckle from central Asia and a species from east- 
ern Siberia, L. Morrowii. L. muscaviensis, another hybrid, is covered 
with large and translucent scarlet fruit. The fruit of the Tartar- 
ian Honeysuckles on some plants is red and on others bright yellow. 
Two hybrids of this species, L. bella and L. notha, bear crimson fruit. 
L. xylosteum bears large, dark crimson, lustrous fruit, and a hybrid of 
it, L. xylosteoides, large red fruit. All the numerous forms of L. coe- 
rulea, a species which is found in all the colder parts of the northern 
hemisphere, have bright blue fruit, and that of L. orientalis is black 
and lustrous. No group of shrubs in the Arboretum is more worthy 
of the careful attention of persons who desire to form collections of 
large, fast-growing, hardy shrubs beautiful when covered in early spring 
with innumerable flowers or in early summer when their showy fruits 
are ripe. 
The fruit of Eleagnus longipes is now ripe and will continue to re- 
main on the plants for several weeks. This hardy Japanese shrub 
flowers and fruits here profusely. The fruit hangs gracefully on long 
slender stems and is oblong, nearly three-quarters of an inch in length, 
scarlet, lustrous and covered with small white dots. It has a tart and 
rather agreeable flavor, and is sometimes used in cooking. Specimens 
of this plant can be seen on the right-hand side of the Bussey Hill Road 
above the Lilacs in the Eleagnus Group. 
An illustrated guide to the Arboretum containing a map showing the 
position of the different groups of plants has recently been published. It 
will be found useful to persons unfamiliar with the position of the differ- 
ent groups of plants. Copies of this guide can be obtained at the Admin- 
istration Building in the Arboretum, from the Secretary of the Massa- 
chusetts Horticultural Society, 300 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston, from 
The Houghton, Mifflin Company, 4 Park Street, Boston, at the Old Cor- 
ner Bookstore, Bromfield Street, Boston, and at the office of the Harvard 
Alumni Bulletin, 50 State Street, Boston. Price, 30 cents. 
The Arboretum will be grateful for any publicity 
given these Bulletins. 
