others only a few buds have opened. The plant which has suffered the 
most is the upright growing variety of Forsythia suspensa (var. For- 
tunes). This is the form which is generally planted in the neighborhood 
of Boston, and the loss of its flowers deprives many Massachusetts gar- 
dens of their greatest spring beauty. The buds of Forsythia suspensa 
itself and of F. viridis have also suffered, but those of a hybrid between 
these species {F. intermedia ) are uninjured or only occasionally hurt. 
There are several varieties of this hybrid and among them are perhaps 
the most beautiful of all the Forsythias, and if it proves to be true 
thut their flower buds can resist more cold than those of their parents 
they will probably soon be better known than they are now. For some 
reason not easy to explain the Albanian Forsythia europea has not be- 
fore been so full of flowers and they have not before appeared so beau- 
tiful. This is a tall shrub with rather rigid erect stems and branches, 
and has generally been considered here inferior as a flowering plant to 
the Chinese species, its chief interest having been that it was a Euro- 
pean representative of a genus otherwise exclusively Chinese. 
Of broad-leaved evergreens which are hardy in this climate three spe- 
cies, all of the Heath Family, are now in flower. The best of them 
as a garden plant and the handsomest of the small broad-leaved ever- 
green shrubs which are perfectly hardy in New England, Andromeda 
fioribunda y is conspicuous all winter from the clusters of white flower- 
buds which cover the plant and are now opening. In cultivation it grows 
to the height of three or four feet and forms a round-topped head some- 
times ten feet across. A native of high altitudes in the southern Ap- 
palachian Mountains, it is everywhere there a rare and local plant, but 
long a favorite in English gardens it is now well known in those of the 
northern states. The largest specimen in the Arboretum can be seen 
in the border on Hemlock Hill Road opposite the Laurels. In this 
border, too, can be seen in flower plants of another native shrub with 
evergreen leaves, the Leather-leaf ( Chamaedaphne calyculata). This is 
a low, much-branched shrub with small leaves and white flowers in 
one-sided leafy racemes. An inhabitant of cold wet bogs, this plant 
takes kindly to cultivation in dry garden soil. The third evergreen 
shrub in flower, the Bog Rosemary ( Andromeda glaucophylla), is an in- 
habitant of cold northern bogs and swamps, and is also a good garden 
plant. It can now be seen in good condition in the Shrub Collection 
where it is conspicuous from the pale under surface of its narrow 
leaves and clusters of small pink flowers. 
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. 
