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and ranges into Pennsylvania, Ontario and Michigan. It is a tree 
sometimes twenty feet tall with wide-spreading horizontal branches 
and a tall trunk often a foot in diameter, flowers an inch across with 
ten stamens and rose-colored anthers, and large oblong scarlet fruit 
ripening and falling at the end of September or early in October. C. 
pedicellata is one of the commonest arborescent species in the western 
New York-Ontario region, and is often twenty feet high with a tall 
trunk and ascending and spreading branches. The flowers are half an 
inch in diameter with ten stamens and rose-colored anthers, and the 
large oblong fruit is bright scarlet. C. coccinioides is distinct in its 
very compact, few-flowered, nearly globose clusters of large flowers 
with twenty stamens and large, dark rose-colored anthers. The fruit, 
which ripens early in October and falls gradually during a month or 
six weeks, is subglobose, rnuch flattened at the ends, slightly angled, 
bright scarlet and nearly an inch in diameter. C. coccinioides is a 
native of the region in the neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri, and is 
one of the handsomest and most distinct of American Thorns. Many 
other young Thorn trees are now in bloom in the new Crataegus plan- 
tation on the eastern slope of Peter’s Hill, and during the next four 
or five weeks there will be an opportunity to examine there the flow- 
ers of three or four hundred species of these plants. 
Cotoneaster multiflora, var. calocarpa. This is the first of the new 
Chinese Cotoneasters to flower this year. It is a shrub with slender 
gracefully arching stems and narrow blue-green leaves. The arching 
of the stems brings the flowers, which are borne in erect clusters on 
short lateral branches, into a conspicuous position and there is now in 
the Arboretum no shrub in bloom more graceful in habit or more 
charming in the arrangement of its flowers. The fruit of this species 
is dull red and about one quarter of an inch in diameter. This plant 
can be seen in the large collection of Chinese Cotoneasters on the 
southern slope of Bussey Hill. It is now well worth examination, as 
are all the species in this group, for among them are some of the most 
beautiful of all shrubs of recent introduction. 
Malus theifera. This Crab-apple, which was introduced by Wilson 
from western China, is flowering this year in the Arboretum for the 
third time and gives every promise here of increasing the number of 
trees with beautiful flowers which can be grown successfully in this 
climate. In habit this Crab-apple differs from all others in its stiff, 
wide-spreading and slightly ascending branches which make an unusu- 
ally open head. The flowers are light pink and about three-quarters 
of an inch in diameter, and when they cover the branches the plants 
look like Cherry-trees rather than Apple-trees. The fruit ripens in 
October and is yellowish green or red and about a quarter of an inch 
in diameter. The name theifera has been given to this plant as the Chi- 
nese living on the mountains in central and western China use the dried 
leaves as a substitute for tea. The best plant of this beautiful little 
tree in the Arboretum is in the collection at the base of Peter’s Hill. 
Magnolia Fraseri. This is the first of the American Magnolias to 
bloom in the Arboretum and has now been in flower for several days. 
It is a small tree rarely more than forty feet high with an open head 
of long branches, leaves often a foot in length and deeply divided at 
the base, and creamy-white, sweet-scented flowers eight or ten inches 
