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The Chinese Viburnums. As compared with most of the American 
and some of the Japanese species the new Viburnums from western 
China are of small value as flowering plants, but at least two of them, 
V. theiferum and V. kupehense, deserve a place in the garden for 
their handsome fruits. That of V. theiferum is found in broad, long- 
stalked, drooping clusters and is oval and about half an inch long. 
Early in October this fruit is light orange color and very lustrous but 
later becomes scarlet. This Viburnum has grown rapidly in the Ar- 
boretum where it forms a broad shrub with rather spreading stems. 
The leaves are thick, long and narrow, dark dull green, conspicuously 
veined, and hang on long stalks; the flowers are small, and in small, 
compact clusters. The leaves are used by the Chinese in the mountain 
regions of the west as a substitute for those of the Tea plant. As it 
grows here it proves to be the best of the numerous Viburnums intro- 
duced by Wilson. Viburnum kupehense is a vigorous shrub with erect 
stems, smaller and thinner leaves than those of V. theiferum^ and glo- 
bose scarlet fruits about one-third of an inch in diameter, in broad 
lax, many-fruited clusters. Of no particular beauty when in flower, 
just now this plant is one of the most attractive of the red-fruited 
Viburnums in the collection. These two plants can be seen in the 
general Viburnum Collection on the right-hand side of the Bussey Hill 
Road and to better advantage in the collection of Chinese shrubs on 
the southern slope of Bussey Hill. 
Malus Sieboldii, var. calocarpa. In the collection of Crabapples at 
the eastern base of Peter’s Hill there is now no more beautiful plant 
than this large-flowered, large-fruited form of a common Japanese 
plant. As it grows in the Arboretum this Crabapple is a bush eight 
or ten feet tall and broad with dark green leaves which are oblong 
and slightly toothed on the fruiting branches and broad and deeply 
three-lobed on vigorous shoots. The flowers are rose-colored and white, 
and from an inch to nearly an inch and a quarter in diameter, and the 
large, bright red lustrous fruits are sometimes nearly an inch in diame- 
ter. This beautiful Crabapple was raised at the Arboretum from seeds 
sent here from Japan by Dr. W. Sturgis Bigelow and it is doubtful if 
it is known in many other gardens. In this climate Malus Sieboldii^ 
var. calocarpa is a garden plant of the first class. 
Malus baccata, var. JackiL This variety of the common Crabapple 
of eastern Siberia was raised at the Arboretum from seeds collected 
by Mr. J. G. Jack at Seoul in 1905 and has proved one of the hand- 
somest and most interesting of the different forms of Malus baccata 
in the Arboretum where it is established in the Crabapple Collection 
at the eastern base of Peter’s Hill. The trees, although small, are 
shapely in habit with clean stems and spreading branches. The leaves 
are thick, almost coriaceous, long-stalked, from four to six inches in 
length, very dark rather dull green above and pale below. The pure 
white flowers are nearly two inches in diameter, and the fruit, which 
is now nearly ripe, hangs gracefully on long red drooping stems. It 
is about half of an inch long, rather longer than broad, deep crimson 
and very lustrous. This is a valuable addition to the list of Crabapples 
which can be successfully cultivated in this climate. Unfortunately 
the new Crabapples which have been introduced in recent years from 
