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are borne in clusters in the axils of the unfolding leaves, and although 
individually small are produced in such numbers that the branches are 
covered with them. They are followed by bright red, lustrous, oblong 
fruit the size of a small olive. The flower-buds and the flowers of this 
little tree are not injured by cold. The habit of this plant is good. 
The foliage is dark green and abundant and the fruit, although some- 
what hidden by the leaves, is handsome. The Cornelian Cherry is a 
native of most European countries and of western Siberia, and has 
been an inhabitant of gardens for more than three hundred years. In 
the United States it was probably more generally planted in the first 
half of the last century than it is at present, although there are not 
many early flowering trees hardy in this climate which are better 
worth a place in the garden. In the Arboretum it can be seen in the 
Cornel Group near the junction of the Meadow and the Bussey Hill 
Roads. 
Two Japanese plants. The leafless branches of Euptelea poiyandra 
are now covered with flowers. The conspicuous part of these is the 
large bright orange-red anthers which hang on short filaments in ax- 
illary clusters from one end of the branches to the other. For its 
peculiar and early flowers this plant is well worth a place in New Eng- 
land gardens, and the large green leaves are handsome and abundant. 
There are several fine specimens of this large shrub or small tree on 
the lower side of Azalea Path and this week they are well worth ex- 
amination. Another species, E, Franchetii, intrcduced by Wilson from 
western China, appears to be perfectly hardy in the Arboretum. The 
plants are still too small, however, to flower. The related Cercidi- 
phyllum japonicum, which is the largest deciduous-leaved tree in Japan 
and now becoming common in American collections, is also beginning 
to flower. The flowers are inconspicuous but the red color of the un- 
folding leaves makes the tree attractive at this season. There is a 
group of this tree on the two sides of the Meadow Road not far be- 
yond the Administration Building. 
Corylopsis. This is a genus of the Witch Hazel Family, distributed, 
with several species, from the western Himalayas through western and 
central China to Japan. These plants have leaves which in general 
appearance resemble those of the Witch Hazel, and drooping spikes of 
fragrant yellow flowers which appear before the leaves, and terminate 
on what, later in the season, become short leafy branchlets. Several of 
these plants are hardy in this climate, but the flower-buds are often 
killed by intense cold, or, if they are not killed, the flowers open so 
early that they are destroyed by late frosts. This year the flower-buds 
have not been much injured, and the flowers of three species are now 
open. One of the best known of these plants is the Japanese C. spi- 
cata. It is a shrub with spreading branches four or five feet high, with 
yellow flowers, about half an inch long, and produced in from six to 
twelve-flowered spikes. There are plants of this shrub on Hickory Path 
near Centre Street. In the collection of Chinese shrubs on the south- 
ern slope of Bussey Hill two distinct and beautiful species introduced 
