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coast from Cape Cod and Nantucket to New Jersey. A larger and a 
handsomer plant with larger leaves, more showy flowers and larger, 
later-ripening fruit, V. Canbyi is the fourth of these species. It is a 
native of eastern Pennsylvania and northern Delaware where it is not 
common, and of central Indiana; and it is the last of all the Vibur- 
nums in the Arboretum to flower.' There are large specimens of this 
plant in front of the Administration Building and at other points on 
the Meadow Road. All these Viburnums can be improved by cultiva- 
tion and with generous treatment grow into larger and handsomer 
bushes than the wild plants, and bear larger leaves and better flowers 
and fruit. Few shrubs better deserve a place in American parks and 
gardens where they are still less often seen than they should be. Two 
rare American Viburnums can now be seen in flower in the Arbore- 
tum, V. molle, a native of southern Kentucky and southern Missouri, 
with which V. venosum was once confused, and V. bracteatum which 
is known to grow naturally only on the cliffs of the Coosa River near 
Rome, Georgia. One of the few plants in cultivation is on Hickory 
Path near Centre Street. V, mollis is in the general Viburnum Col- 
lection.. 
Red-fruited Viburnums. With the exception of the species vrhich 
belong to the Opulus Group no American Viburnums have red fruit, 
but in eastern Asia there are several red-fruited species. The hand- 
somest of these in the Arboretum is V. dilatatum, which is a native of 
Japan, Korea, and western China. It is a large, shapely and vigorous 
shrub with broad, abruptly pointed leaves and wide flat clusters of 
flowers which are followed by small bright red fruits. This is a 
good shrub for the decoration of summer and autumn gardens. It is 
in the general Virburnum Collection, and there are good plants on the 
right-hand side of the Bussey Hill Road opposite the upper end of the 
Lilac Group. The fruit is smaller and less showy than that of another 
red-fruited Japanese species, V. Wrightii. This is a smaller shrub and 
flowered some time ago. The flower-clusters are smaller than those 
of V. dilatatum and the plants are not always perfectly hardy in ex- 
posed situations, but the fruit is larger and handsomer than that of 
the other red-fruited Viburnums of eastern Asia. Another of these 
plants, V. theiferum, from western China is not yet in flower. It is a 
tall, narrow shrub with erect stems, small leaves and small flower- 
clusters. It has little to recommend it as a flowering plant but the 
fruit is large, abundant and of good color, and the plant has an eco- 
nomic interest as an infusion of the leaves is the “sweet tea” used by 
the monks of the monasteries on Mt. Omei, one of the flve sacred 
mountains of China. 
Magnolia glauca in the Magnolia Collection, on the right-hand side 
of the Jamaica Plain entrance, is covered again with flowers. Although 
it has often been insisted on in these bulletins, the fact that this is 
one of the handsomest plants which can be grown in our gardens can- 
not be too often repeated. Often a large tree in the southern states, 
at the north M. glauca never grows to any great size and is more 
often a large shrub than a tree. The leaves are dark green and very 
lustrous on the upper surface and silvery white on the lower surface. 
In the south they remain on the branches until spring; here they re- 
tain their brilliancy and do not fall until December. The flowers are 
