Complimentary 
NEW SERIES VOL. I 
NO. 16 
ARNOLD ARBORETUM 
HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
BULLETIN 
POPULAR INFORMATION 
JAMAICA PLAIN, MASS. OCTOBER 29. 1915 
Some Asiatic Burning Bushes. (Evonymus.) One of these plants, 
Evonymus Bungeanus , 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 small tree or treelike shrub with slen- 
der rather pendulous branches and narrow, pointed, pale green leaves; 
these are now turning yellow or yellow and red, but the great beauty 
of this plant is in the rose-colored fruit which every year is produced 
in great quantities and remains on the branches for several weeks 
after the leaves have fallen, making this native of northern China a 
desirable plant for the autumn garden. 
Evonymus lanceifolius. This shrub, which is one of Wilson’s intro- 
ductions from western China, promises to become a valuable garden 
plant in this climate. On the mountains of western China it grows as 
a large bush or occasionally as a tree, and is sometimes fifty feet high 
with a tall trunk nearly a foot in diameter. In the Arboretum, where 
it is growing in the Evonymus Group on the Meadow Road, it is per- 
fectly hardy and is now a bush from three to four feet tall and broad, 
covered with bright scarlet fruit and leaves which are still partly green 
and are partly turned to shades of orange and red. In the size and 
brilliancy of the fruit few of the plants of this group equal this Chin- 
ese species. 
Evonymus yedoensis. The leaves have already fallen from this 
Japanese plant in the Evonymus Group, but the large rose-colored 
fruits which now cover the naked branches make it one of the con- 
spicuous plants in the Arboretum. 
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