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Scotch Roses. Some of the varieties of the Scotch Rose (R. spino- 
sissima) are distinct and beautiful garden plants. The handsomest, 
perhaps, are the variety altaica, also sometimes called var. grcindiflora, 
with petals faintly tinged with yellow toward their base, the varieties 
hispida and lutea with yellow flowers, and the variety fulgens with 
pale pink flowers. Like most single Rose-flowers, the flowers of these 
Scotch Roses last only a few days, but during these few days they are 
delightful additions to the Rose-garden; they all have stems covered 
with prickles, rather small leaves and comparatively large black shin¬ 
ing fruits. 
Neillia sinensis is blooming again this year. The flowers of this 
Neillia are cylindric, clear pale pink, nearly half an inch long, and hang 
down on slender stems in long, one-sided racemes terminal on short 
lateral branchlets, and do not open until the small dark green leaves 
have grown nearly to their full size. It is one of the new Chinese 
plants which seem destined to become popular in American gardens. 
Kolkwitzia amabilis. The plant of this shrub in the collection of 
Chinese plants on Bussey Hill is now well worth a visit, for Kolkwit¬ 
zia has not before flowered so abundantly in the Arboretum. It is the 
only representative of a genus which is related to Diervilla and Abelia. 
The flowers are borne in pairs on long stems at the ends of short lat¬ 
eral branchlets and are rose-color in the bud, becoming paler after 
opening, the inner surface of the three divisions of the lower lobe of 
the corolla being white blotched with orange color at the base. Kolk¬ 
witzia did not begin to flower until it had been several years in the 
Arboretum, and it has not always, especially in the Shrub Collection, 
proved perfectly hardy here. A plant, however, like the one now on 
Bussey Hill, will make up for many disappointments. 
Spirea Miyabei. This Chinese shrub, although less beautiful than 
S. Veitchii and S. Henryi, which are the handsomest of the new Chi¬ 
nese plants in this genus, flowers earlier than they do and is distinct 
in its flat or slightly convex clusters of white flowers which are terminal 
on erect, leafy, lateral branchlets three or four inches long, and quite 
cover the plants. 
Viburnum Lsntago. There are probably several hundred Asiatic and 
other exotic trees and shrubs now blooming in the Arboretum but this 
week the Arboretum is indebted for its greatest beauty to none of 
these but to the Nanny berry, Viburnum Lentago , one of the common¬ 
est shrubs or small trees which grow naturally by the sides of Mas¬ 
sachusetts roads and the borders of Massachusetts woodlands. The 
Nannyberry has been largely planted in the Arboretum and it has re¬ 
sponded to generous treatment and good care, and there are now many 
large specimens in the mixed plantations, which are now covered with 
their broad convex clusters of nearly white flowers rising above the 
bright green leaves. These later will grow thick and become lustrous, 
and will turn deep wine-color in the autumn when the plants will bear 
great crops of dark blue-black fruits hanging gracefully in red-stemmed 
clusters. In habit, foliage, flowers and fruit no Viburnum is handsomer 
than this common native plant, and three-quarters or more of the ex¬ 
otic species cannot as ornamental plants be compared with it. Fortu¬ 
nately Viburnum Lentago can now be found in several American nur¬ 
series. 
