Complimentary 
NEW SERIES VOL. V NO. 13 
ARNOLD ARBORETUM 
HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
POPULAR INFORMATION 
JAMAICA PLAIN, MASS. JULY 26, 1919 
Fruits in the Arboretum. The ripening and ripe fruits of many- 
hardy trees and shrubs are as beautiful and often more beautiful than 
their flowers; and such plants have a double value for the decor¬ 
ation of northern gardens, especially the gardens of the northern 
United States. For the climate of this part of the world is suited for 
the abundant production and high coloring of the fruits of our native 
trees and shrubs and of those of northeastern Asia; and European 
plant lovers who come to the Arboretum in summer and autumn are 
always astonished and delighted with the abundance and beauty of the 
fruits they find here. The list of trees and shrubs with handsome 
fruits which can be grown in New England contains many species of 
Holly, Ribes, Viburnum, Cotoneaster, Cornus, Malus, Sorbus, Amel- 
anchier, Aronia, Rosa, Prunus, Rhus, Crataegus, Ampelopsis, Berberis, 
Magnolia, Acer, Acanthopanax and Lonicera. On the Red and White 
Maples the fruit ripens early in May, and until the first of November 
there will be a succession here of ripening fruits. The fruits of a few 
trees and shrubs will remain on the branches and keep much of their 
brilliancy until early April, and there is therefore only a few weeks 
during the year when one cannot find showy fruits in the Arboretum. 
Honeysuckles as fruit plants. It is not perhaps generally realized 
that the fruit of several Honeysuckles is more beautiful than their 
flowers, and that among the species which are bushes and not vines 
are plants perfectly suited to this northern climate which are not sur¬ 
passed in the abundance and brilliancy of their fruits by any plants 
which ripen their fruit in summer. The Honeysuckles which produce 
the earliest and the showiest fruit are Lonicera tatarica and some of 
its hybrids. The Tartarian Honeysuckle, which is a native of western 
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