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small, cup-shapes, and during many weeks fill the air, especially in the 
evening, with a delightful fragrance. There is no plant which will give 
here at the north a greater return in beauty and fragrance, yet it is 
impossible to find this Magnolia in any quantity in American nurseries, 
and it is still unknown to most American planters of this generation. 
Lonicera pileata. To persons who admire plants which produce 
beautiful fruits this little Chinese Honeysuckle wiil be a delight. It is 
a shrub which does not grow more than two or three feet high. The 
leaves vary from one to two inches in length; on the upper surface 
they are dark yellowish green and lustrous, and are silvery white on 
the lower surface. The flowers are pale yellow, about a third of an 
inch long and are not conspicuous, and the great beauty of this plant 
is in the fruit. This is half an inch broad, square at the ends, some- 
what compressed, wider than high, bright scarlet and translucent. It 
hangs down from the lateral branchlets on slender stalks two-thirds of 
an inch in length. The earliest fruit ripened several days ago, but as 
that which develops from the axils of leaves higher on the branchlet 
ripens later the plant is conspicuous for its fruit for a long time. L, 
pileata is a common woodland shrub in central and western China 
where it was discovered by Dr. Augustine Henry. It was introduced 
into gardens by Wilson and first flowered in the Arboretum in 1913. 
It can now be seen on the southern slope of Bussey Hill with the other 
new Chinese Honeysuckles in the collection of Chinese shrubs. 
Styrax japonicus. Although at least one hundred species of Styrax 
are now recognized, with four species in the southern United States 
and one in California, only two Japanese species up to the present 
time have proved really hardy in the Arboretum. The more satisfac- 
tory of these two species, S. japonicus, is a large shrub which is cov- 
ered every year at this time with white bell-shaped flowers which hang 
down from the branches on long slender stems. The globose, drupelike 
dry fruits are not particularly ornamental, and the leaves fall late in the 
autumn without change of color. There is a group of large plants of 
this Styrax on Hickory Path, near Centre Street, and that it is per- 
fectly at home there is shown by the innumerable seedlings which every 
spring come up under the plants. The other Japanese species, 5. 
Obassi, is a small tree with larger leaves than those of S. japonicus, 
and flowers in long drooping clusters; it can be seen on the upper side 
of Azalea Path where it is quite hardy but does not flower. 
Cotinus. In the Sumach Group, on the left-hand side of the Valley 
Road and opposite the Euonymus Group, the Smoke-tree {Cotinus Cog- 
gygria) is in bloom. The flowers are very small, in loosely arranged 
clusters and are not at all conspicuous; and it is their much length- 
ened hairy colored stems which are interesting and showy, and make 
this plant such a feature of the summer garden. The fruit is small 
and of no particular beauty, but in the autumn the dark green leaves 
sometimes assume dull shades of red and orange. The Smoke-tree is a 
native of southern and southeastern Europe, the Himalaya and west- 
ern China, and is perfectly hardy in New England where it was prob- 
ably brought early from Old England where it was cultivated soon 
after the middle of the seventeenth century. In the same group there 
is a large specimen of the American species, C. americanus. This as 
