hanging in large and abundant clusters, contrasts well with the red 
and orange tints of the autumn leaves. Aronia intermedia , of the 
same general appearance, has earlier ripening, dark wine-colored fruit, 
while A. arbutifolia has erect clusters of smaller fruit and narrower 
leaves which are bright scarlet before falling. This plant late in the 
autumn is one of the showiest of all the shrubs of eastern North 
America. All the Aronias are easily cultivated and excellent garden 
plants; the flowers are abundant and handsome, and they have great 
value for the decoration of the autumn garden. 
The leaves of no other shrub in the Arboretum are now so bright 
scarlet as those of the common Highbush Blueberry of New England 
swamps ( Vaccinium corymbosum). This plant has much to recommend 
it for general cultivation; the habit is good, the flowers are beautiful, 
the large bright blue fruits which cover the branches in early summer 
are very handsome and of better quality than those of any other Blue- 
berry, and the autumn foliage is unsurpassed in brilliancy. Young 
plants can be easily transplanted from the swamps and succeed in any 
good garden soil in which they grow rapidly and flower and produce 
fruit in abundance. The Highbush Blueberry has been largely planted 
in the Arboretum shrubberies and there is a group of these plants on 
both sides of Azalea Path at its entrance from the Bussey Hill Road 
at the base of the Overlook. 
Some of the new Cotoneasters discovered by Wilson in western China 
are shrubs of much beauty at this season of the year, and among them 
are several of the handsomest and most desirable garden shrubs of re- 
cent introduction. Some of the species grow six or eight feet high and 
some form dense mats of prostrate stems: some have bright red and 
others shining black fruits, and nearly all of them have dark green and 
very lustrous leaves which retain this color until the late autumn. One 
of the handsomest plants of this group is Cotoneaster hupehensis with 
erect and spreading stems, larger and more conspicuous flowers than 
those of other species of Cotoneaster, and exceptionally large red fruits 
which have already fallen. Cotoneaster foveolata is a tall shrub with 
black fruit and leaves which turn late in the autumn to brilliant shades 
of orange and scarlet. For its autumn foliage this plant might well 
find a place in every garden. Although no longer a novelty, Cotone- 
aster horizontalis is one of the most useful and interesting of the 
Chinese species of Cotoneaster. It is a low plant with spreading and 
arching stems which in time form a broad mat not more than a foot 
high. The small leaves are dark green and very lustrous: the minute 
flowers are dark red and these are followed by innumerable small red 
fruits. This is a most desirable plant for the borders of small shrub- 
beries, for the rock garden and for covering low walls. A collection 
of several species of the new Chinese Cotoneasters can be seen in the 
long bed of new Chinese plants on the southern slope of Bussey Hill, 
and there is a large specimen of C. horizontalis on the upper side of 
Hickory Path near Centre Street which is now covered with fruit and 
well shows the decorative value of this plant. 
Unfortunately only a few species of the genus Callicarpa are hardy 
in this climate, and the beautiful C. americana , the so-called French 
Mulberry, which makes such a brilliant display in the southern woods 
at this season of the year with its large clusters of rose-purple fruit, 
cannot be grown here. The decorative value of plants of this genus 
