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Fruits, On the whole it is not a good year for fruits in the Arbor¬ 
etum. Many Asiatic Crabapples are without fruit, and when there is 
fruit on these plants the crop is a small one. Many Viburnums, too, are 
without fruit. Many of the Barberries and Cotoneasters, however, are 
now covered with ripe or ripening fruits, and on the Hawthorns (Cra¬ 
taegus), more plants are covered with fruit than in any year since the 
collection of several hundred species was established. 
Ilex geniciilata. This rare Japanese Holly is as usual an object of 
beauty and interest in the Arboretum at this season of the year. It 
is a rather narrow shrub from three to four feet high, with small dark 
green leaves, and the small unisexual yellowish green flowers peculiar 
to most Hollies, and its beauty is found only in the small bright scar¬ 
let lustrous fruits which hang gracefully on their slender stems from 
three-quarters of an inch to an inch in length. This plant, which seems 
to be still almost entirely unknown in American and European gardens, 
was sent in 1904 from the Botanic Garden in Tokyo, and the following 
year Mr, J. G. Jack brought seeds home from Japan: seeds, too, were 
later collected by Mr. Wilson in Japan. It has been producing fruit here 
during the last seventeen years. It is a shrub well worth a place in 
any garden, and as the fruit continues to hang on the branches late 
into the winter without much change of color this will prove more val¬ 
uable in winter bouquets and the winter decoration of homes than the 
better known Japanese Ilex serrata^ quantities of the fruit-covered 
branches of which are sold in the streets of Japanese cities every autumn. 
This is a taller and much more common shrub than Ilex geniculata, and 
has been established for many years in the Arboretum where the male 
and female plants are on the upper side of Hickory Path near Centre 
Street. These red-fruited shrubby Hollies are commonly represented in 
the flora of eastern North America by two species, Eex verticillata, the 
so-called Black Alder, and the less common but handsomer Ilex laevigata. 
These are large and shapely, fast-growing, hardy shrubs with larger but 
rather less lustrous fruit than the Japanese species. Of the two Amer¬ 
ican species Rex laevigata flowers and ripens its fruit the earlier; the 
flowers of the male plant are raised on long stalks; the fruit is rather 
larger and the leaves are of a darker green. Ilex laevigata is not a 
common plant in cultivation. The fruit-covered branches of the two 
species are well suited for the winter decoration of rooms, and those 
of Ilex verticillata are now occasionally seen in the shops of city florists. 
Evonymus planipes is one of the shrubs which should be mentioned 
at least once every year in these Bulletins until it becomes common in 
American gardens. It is a native of northern Japan, with large dark 
green leaves, and large crimson fruits hanging gracefully on long slen¬ 
der stems and more showy and beautiful than those of any other Burn¬ 
ing Bush which has ever produced fruit in this Arboretum. 
