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fl^rbpris (Mahonia/ rei>«7r«. Th#* Or^“»5n Grape. 
(Mahrmm Afpiifoliv/m,) of the fioaet region is n/it a aariafac- 
tory plant in this climate or less it can be plan ted in e^cepconaily 
sheltered positions or can carefaiiy protected, for the cold here de- 
stroys or disfigures tfie leaves and often Icf.ia the tianta. The ape^nes 
from the Rocky xMountams, /?. is a hardier plant and :)ne tf 
the most useful of the dwarf, oroad- eaved ever^eers which zan he 
used here. It grows leas than a foot high and apreaxda rapidly into 
large mats; the leaves are pale bluish gr-en and ana not Luatrtua hka 
those of the Oregon species, and the dowers are bright jeilow and 
produced in compact terminal clusters. This plant ia now hi iower 
in the Shmb Collection next to a piant of Serde^i.? AquiivLzwm, which 
is also in flower and in better cor.ditifOQ this spring than xsual. There 
is a collection of different forms of the ilahcnias m the lower side if 
Hickory Path near Centre Street, inciiLding the Japanese species n. 
japonica) which has unexpectedly pro'^eif hariy ih. this sheitere-i poatioEL 
Early Lilacs. The white-fowered Srj'rim.ga 'zjints and its 'rijreTij Gi~ 
raldii, with pale lilac or manve-coLcred ntwers. 5, and 5. hya~ 
cinthiflora, are already’ in dower and in a few hays many of the Tariethes 
of the common Lilac will open their f ewers. 5, zjftriLS and Its Tariecy 
are tall shrubs of a straggling habit, bet are Talnahle on acccuct of 
their early and very fragrant dowers. The waite-howered form is the 
common and apparently the only kind of Lilac cthtivated in the gar- 
dens of Peking. 5. Mr^ri is a dwarf shrub of northern China with 
compact clusters of very fragment dark rurrie dowers which are iis- 
tinct in the exceptionally long slender tube of the conoria. r. hyacinth- 
ijflora is a hybrid between the common Lilac and the Chinese r. oduzca: 
the flowers are lilac- CvJored, small and ionb.'e. in rather smai! clusters; 
it is a vigorous, fast growing plant, however, of good habit and is 
chiefly valuable in pi-olonging the Lilac season. 
Daphnes. FKiphne and its white- dowered variety bloomed 
several weeks agOi bef^ure the suv'w had entirely disavt'eared. They are 
dwarf Enrv>pean shrubs with ereot branches, and have now become 
naturalised in several places in the northern sta^e^s. A more beaudfui 
plant, D. OntHU‘wm, is now in dower in the :i^rub Ool'eotioo and oa the 
lower aide of .\aalea Path; it tVrms a brv'ad mat of wiry semiprostrate 
stems leas than a foot Kmg. coverevi with dark green leaves and ter- 
minatii^g in dense heads of rvvse- co.'.'re^.! dehgh tru ly fragntnt dowers. 
It is a plant which with the same treatment and in the same soil suo^ 
ceeds in some gawlens and fails utterly in others. Fortunately it does 
well in the .-Vrboretum where it is one ».\f the nKv>t admired tJants in 
the rolleotiou. The pale UUy,'-t\oweie\i l\ is b.\\>aiii>g in the 
special t'hinese t'oUectkm on the svmtherti skv^v v'f Fussey HUi This 
Daphne was sent to the I'nited States many years ag\' from w’a:.\in, 
but the plants derived fTvUU Javvauese gardens did not suooeevi here. 
It is a t'hinese plant intvwluceNi into dajvut, and the plants now dow- 
ering in (he ,\rt'v»vetum wetv raised froiu seeds oolkN:ted bv Wilsv'o ki 
