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Island. One of these Japanese plants flowered in the Arboretum in 
1880, but generally they have never grown well in this country and it 
is doubtful if any of them are now in existence. In 1900 Wilson found 
this Daphne growing wild near Ichang in Hupeh and plants from his 
seeds were grown at the Arboretum. Some of these were killed by 
the severe winter of three or four years ago but the remnant of one 
of them has been flowering this year on Hickory Path near Centre 
Street. It is, however, probable that this beautiful shrub will never 
be a permanent success in eastern Massachusetts. A few plants have 
been sent by the Arboretum to more southern gardens where they are 
growing well and have given great satisfaction. Daphne genkwa is now 
extremely rare in the United States and every one with a plant should 
save all the seeds it produces, for Daphnes can only be successfully 
obtained from seeds, as it is practically impossible to increase them 
from cuttings. 
Berberis Dielsiana is now in flower with the new Chinese Barberries 
on Bussey Hill. It is a magnificent plant already nearly ten feet high 
and from eight to ten feet in diameter with wide spreading slightly 
pendulous branches. The flowers are in drooping racemes like those of 
the common Barberry and are equally fragrant. Berheris Dielsiana is 
one of Purdom’s discoveries, who found it in Shensi and among the 
new Barberries is only surpassed here as an ornamental plant by B. 
Vernae another of Purdom’s discoveries which will not be in bloom yet 
for two or three weeks. Two years ago Berheris Dielsiana opened its 
flowers as early as the middle of April, but the middle of May seems 
to be the normal time for it to flower here, and that is before any of 
the other species of this group are in bloom. 
