Complimentary 
NEW SERIES VOL. 11 
NO. 17 
ARNOLD ARBORETUM 
HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
OF 
POPULAR INFORMATION 
JAMAICA PLAIN. MASS. NOVEMBER 3. 1916 
Evonymas yedoensis. The fruit of few other plants in the Arbore- 
tum is now more beautiful than that of this Evonymus. It is a large, 
vigorous, hardy, tree-like shrub or sm.all tree with a short trunk and 
wide-spreading branches which form a symmetrical round-topped head. 
The leaves are unusually large for a plant of this genus and, having 
turned yellow, have now nearly all disappeared, leaving in full sight 
the fruit which covers the branches from end to end. It is rose color, 
about half of an inch in diameter, that is unusually large for that of 
an Evonymus, and as it opens shows the bright scarlet shining seeds. 
This was one of the plants sent direct to the United States from 
Japan between 1860 and 1870, and has been growing in the Arboretum 
for fully thirty years. It is still, however, little known and rare in 
American and European gardens. There are several specimens, large 
and small, in the Evonymus Group on the right-hand side of the 
Meadow Road which is better worth a visit late in the autumn than at 
any other time of the year. 
Evonymus europaeus. This, the Burning Bush as the English call 
it, is a widely distributed and variable European shrub or small tree. 
The fact that the leaves usually remain green or nearly green on the 
branches until after the fruit has colored and opened adds to its beauty. 
The fruit is about two-thirds the size of that of E. yedoensis and deep 
dull red with lustrous bright orange-colored seeds. There are several 
forms of this small tree in the collection. One of the handsomest of 
these has been raised here from seeds sent to the Arboretum from 
Hungary. On this form the leaves are now dark purple on the upper 
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