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of their beauty is a long one. On different species and hybrids there 
are blue, black, orange, yellow, wine-color and scarlet fruits, and these 
beautiful and abundant fruits following beautiful flowers make some 
of the Bush Honeysuckles desirable garden plants especially in the 
northern United States where they are very hardy and where they ap- 
pear to fruit more freely than in other parts of the world. The orange- 
colored translucent fruit of Lonicera minutiflora is perhaps the most 
beautiful in the collection. This plant is a hybrid between the Tarta- 
rian Honeysuckle from Central Asia and a species from eastern Sibe- 
ria, L. Morrowii. L. muscaviensis is covered with large and trans- 
lucent scarlet fruit. The fruits of the Tartarian Honeysuckles are 
sometimes red and sometimes bright yellow. Two hybrids of this spe- 
cies, L. bella and L. notha, bear crimson fruit. L. Xylosteum produces 
large, dark crimson, lustrous fruit, and a hybrid of it, L. xylosteoides, 
large red fruit. All the numerous forms of L. coerulea in the collection, 
a species which is found in all the colder parts of the northern hemi- 
sphere, have bright blue fruit, and that of L. orientalis is black and 
lustrous. L. Koehneana, a native of western China, is now covered 
with large, dark, wine-colored, almost black fruits which follow yellow 
flowers. This is a native of western China and is a hardy and valua- 
ble garden plant. There is a large specimen now covered with fruit 
among the Chinese shrubs on the southern slope of Bussey Hill. These 
Bush Honeysuckles form a group of shrubs worthy of the attention of 
persons who desire to form collections of large, fast-growing, hardy 
shrubs beautiful when covered in early spring with innumerable flowers 
or in early summer or in autumn when their showy fruits are ripe. 
Acer tataricum. The fruits of this Maple are now fully grown and 
conspicuous from the bright red color of the keys. It is a small tree 
or treelike shrub and a native of southeastern Europe and western 
Asia. It is an early-flowering, very hardy Maple well worth cultivat- 
ing for the brilliancy of its fruit alone. An old inhabitant of the gar- 
dens of western Europe and of the United States, it has been rather 
lost sight of since the introduction of the Japanese Maples. Plants 
can be seen in the Maple Collection. 
Tsuga carolini&na. After two of the severest winters of recent 
years the perfect condition of this southern Hemlock in the Arboretum 
shows that it can be depended on to flourish in southern New England. 
A smaller tree and less graceful perhaps than the Hemlock of our 
northwest coast, T. lieterophylla, the most beautiful of all the Hem- 
locks, the Carolina tree is the handsomest representative of the genus 
which can be successfully grown here. The Carolina Hemlock was 
first raised in the Arboretum more than thirty years ago, and among 
the seedlings are two or three dwarf plants which are broader than 
high and beautiful subjects for planting in small gardens. Judging by 
the experience at the Arboretum with this tree, it may be placed among 
the six most desirable conifers for planting in southern New England, 
the others being the White Pine, Pinus Strobus, the Red Pine, Pinus 
resinosa, the northern Hemlock, Tsuga canadensis, the White Fir of 
Colorado, Abies concolor, and the Japanese Abies brachyphylla. 
