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pie-red and very lustrous. This is one of the widely distributed species 
as it is found from southwestern Vermont to Illinois and Missouri, and 
southward in the Appalachian region to the foothills of the southern 
mountains. Like many of the American Thorns, it delights in soil 
strongly impregnated with lime. 
Crataegus aprica. The specimen of this species in the old collection 
is also covered with ripening fruit. It is a small tree with small yel- 
low-green leaves, large flowers in compact from three to six-flowered 
clusters, and dull orange-red sub-globose fruit about half an inch in 
diameter, borne on stout, nearly erect stems. As a garden plant this 
tree is chiefly interesting as being one of the hardiest of a group of 
species entirely confined to the southeastern states known as Flavae. 
C. aprica is a native of dry valleys in the foothills of the southern 
Appalachian Mountains where it is widely distributed from southwestern 
Virginia southward at elevations between fifteen hundred and thirty- 
five hundred feet above the sea level. 
Dwarf species of Crataegus. Several of the little Hawthorns belong- 
ing to the Intricatae group are now covered with handsome fruit. 
These shrubs which are natives of the northern states, have been al- 
most entirely neglected by gardeners. They all have large and showy 
flowers which on most of the species do not open until the leaves are 
fully grown, and many of them have large and bright colored fruits. 
Many of these shrubs are only two or three feet high when fully grown, 
and several of them are well suited for small gardens or for planting 
in front, of groups of the larger species. The plants of this group are 
arranged on the lower side of the. drive at the eastern base of Peter’s 
Hill. 
Evonymns Bungeana, which has been an inhabitant of the Arboretum 
for thirty years, deserves more general cultivation than it has yet re- 
ceived in this country. It is a tree or treelike shrub with slender 
rather pendulous branches and narrow, pointed, yellow-green leaves 
which are now turning yellow or yellow and red. The great beauty 
of this plant is in the rose-colored fruit which is produced in large clus- 
ters near the ends of the branches on which it remains for several 
weeks after the leaves have fallen. This is one of the handsomest of 
the Asiatic species in the late autumn and a plant which should be 
better known. 
Magnolia glauca. This, the Sweet Bay of the Atlantic and Gulf 
Coast regions from Massachusetts to Texas, is still covered with its 
bright green shining leaves which are silvery white on the lower sur- 
face and which will not become discolored or fall before December. 
Attention has often been called in these Bulletins to the value of this 
tree as an ornament to New England gardens. Few deciduous-leaved 
trees are more beautiful or have more persistent foliage. The cup- 
shaped, creamy white flowers continue to open during many weeks in 
early summer and fill the air with their fragrance; and the fruit, like 
that of all the Magnolias, is interesting and handsome when the scarlet 
seeds hang from the branches on long slender threads. 
