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it is the last of all the Viburnums in the Arboretum to flower. There 
are large specimens of this plant in front of the Administration Build¬ 
ing and at other points on the Meadow Road. All these Viburnums 
can be improved by cultivation and with generous treatment grow into 
larger and handsomer bushes than the wild plants, and bear larger 
leaves and better flowers and fruit. Few shrubs better deserve a place 
in American parks and gardens where they are still less often seen 
than they should be. Two rare American Viburnums can now be seen 
in flower in the Arboretum, V. molle, a native of southern Kentucky 
and southern Missouri, with which V. venosum was once confused, and 
V. bracteatum which is known to grow naturally only on the cliffs of 
the Coosa River near Rome, Georgia. One of the few plants in culti¬ 
vation is on Hickory Path near Centre Street. V. molle is in flower 
near it. 
Red-fruited Viburnums. With the exception of the two species which 
belong to the Opulus Group no American Viburnum has red fruit, but 
in eastern Asia there are several red-fruited species. The handsomest 
of these in the Arboretum is V. dilatatum, which is a native of Japan, 
Korea and western China. It is a large, shapely and vigorous shrub 
with broad, abruptly pointed leaves and wide flat clusters of flowers 
which are followed by small bright red fruits. This is a good shrub 
for the decoration of summer and autumn gardens. It is in the gen¬ 
eral Viburnum collection, and there are good plants on the right hand 
side of the Bussey Hill Road opposite the upper end of the Lilac Group. 
There is a form with yellow fruit (var. xanthoearpum) which is an 
attractive and interesting plant. The fruit of V. dentatum is smaller 
and less showy than that of another red-fruited Japanese species, V. 
Wrightii. This is a smaller shrub and flowered some time ago. The 
flower-clusters are smaller than those of F. dilatatum and the plants 
are not always perfectly hardy in exposed situations, but the fruit is 
larger and handsomer than that of the other red-fruited Viburnums of 
eastern Asia. Another of these plants, V. theiferum, from western 
China is not yet in flower. It is a tall narrow shrub with erect stems, 
small leaves and small flower-clusters. It has little to recommend it 
as a flowering plant but the fruit is large, abundant and of good color, 
and the plant has an economic interest as an infusion of the leaves is 
the “sweet tea” used by the monks of the monasteries on Mt. Omei, 
one of the five sacred mountains of China. 
Hydrangea petiolaris. The specimens of this vine, the Japanese 
Climbing Hydrangea, on the southeast corner of the Administration 
Building is now one of the great sights of the Arboretum as it is cov¬ 
ered with flower-clusters from the ground to the eaves of the building. 
The leaves of few plants unfolded here as early in the spring and there 
is but one other climbing plant with conspicuous flowers really hardy in 
this climate, Schizophragma, able to attach itself firmly to a brick or 
stone wall or to the trunk of a tree. The flower-clusters of the Climbing 
Hydrangea are surrounded by a circle of white sterile flowers and are 
from eight to ten inches in diameter; they are terminal on short lateral 
branches which stand out from the main stem of the plant and give it an 
irregular surface which adds to its beauty and interest. This Hydrangea 
was first raised at the Arboretum in 1878 and can now be occasionally 
