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shrubs more attractive and more beautiful than in the northeastern 
United States, but the value of fruit-bearing plants for the decora- 
tion of summer and autumn gardens is hardly appreciated yet by 
American gardeners who are slow to realize that plants which are in- 
teresting for their flowers and fruits and increase in beauty from year 
to year make a setting for the gardens of eastern America which 
cannot be found in any other land. Such plants abound in the Arbor- 
etum and nowhere else can the fruits of trees and shrubs hardy in 
New England be seen and studied to such advantage. 
Crataegus Arnoldiana. This Thorn is a native of eastern Massachu- 
setts and one of the first of the American species raised at the Arbor- 
etum where it was found growing wild on a wooded bank. It is a 
tree with a well developed trunk, erect and spreading branches which 
are furnished with many long stout thorns, the smaller branches being 
conspicuously zigzag. The flowers are large in ample clusters and open 
with the unfolding of the leaves which laler grow to a good size, and 
are dark green in color. The fruit, however, is the handsomest thing 
about this tree; it is nearly globose, about an inch in diameter and 
bright red, and beginning to ripen from the middle to the end of 
August falls gradually the end of September or early in October. Of 
the Thorns in the Arboretum collection with early-ripening fruits C. 
Arnoldiana is the handsomest, and as a fruit tree it may well find a 
place in every American garden in which an early autumn display is 
desired. 
Crataegus pinnatiflda. This is a native of northeastern Asia and has 
long been an inhabitant of the Arboretum. It is a large shrub or 
small tree with large, deeply divided, dark green very lustrous leaves, 
large flowers, and bright scarlet fruit which ripens while the leaves 
are still green. This is one of the handsomest of all Thorns, and it is 
economically interesting because one of the large-fruited forms is cul- 
tivated in orchards as a fruit tree in the neighborhood of Peking and 
in other parts of northern China. There is a large specimen of this 
Thorn among the Maples near the parkway boundary of the Arbore- 
tum and others can be seen in the Crataegus Collection on the eastern 
slope of Peter’s Hill and on the Bussey Hill Overlook. 
Viburnum cassinoides. There are only small crops of fruit on sev- 
eral of the American Viburnums this year but that of this inhabitant 
of northern swamps has never been larger or in better condition. As 
it grows naturally Viburnum cassinoides is a tall and usually unsym- 
metrical shrub, but in good soil it develops into a broad, round-topped 
compact bush. The leaves are thick, dark green and lustrous. The 
creamy white flowers are produced in large convex clusters, and the 
fruit when fully grown is at first nearly white, turning as it ripens 
bright pink and finally dark blue, berries of the three colors often 
appearing together in the same cluster. This Viburnum is a fast- 
growing and perfectly hardy shrub, and there are few plants which 
combine so much beauty of foliage, flowers and fruits. It has been 
largely used in the Arboretum and good plants can be seen in many 
of the roadside plantations, especially by the road at the top of Peter’s 
Hill. 
