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Siberia and central Asia, is an old inhabitant of gardens and one of 
the best shrubs for cold countries, for it can support without injury the 
excessive cold of the long winter and the burning sun of the short 
summer of the north fatal to all but a few of the plants which dec¬ 
orate the gardens of more temperate regions. It cannot be too often 
repeated that the Tartarian Honeysuckle and its hybrids are large, 
fast-growing plants, that they only thrive in rich, well-drained soil, 
and that they can only show their real beauty when allowed sufficient 
space for free development of their branches. Twenty-five feet be¬ 
tween the plants does not give them too much room. There are many 
varieties of the Tartarian Honeysuckle in the Arboretum collection 
varying in the color of their flowers and in the color of their fruits. 
The varieties of L. tatarica which have this year the handsome fruit 
are the var. rosea with scarlet fruit and var. lutea with bright yellow 
fruit. The fruits, however, of some of the hybrids are more beautiful 
than those of any of the varieties of the species. As fruiting plants 
the best of these hybrids which are in the Arboretum are Lonicera 
bella, L. muendeniensis, L. notha, and L. amoena. L. bella was 
raised in the Botanic Garden at Petrograd and is believed to be the 
product of a cross between L. tatarica and the Japanese L. Morrowii. 
There are several varieties of this hybrid differing in the color of their 
flowers. They are large, free-flowering plants with large, lustrous red 
fruit. L. muendeniensis, which originated in the Botanic Garden at 
Muenden, is probably of the same parentage as L. bella altered by the 
cross with another species. It is a very vigorous plant with large, 
lustrous, orange-red fruit. L. notha, which is believed to be a hybrid 
of L. tatarica and L. Ruprechtiana, is another large, vigorous, fast¬ 
growing plant with lustrous orange-red fruit. L. notha and L. muen¬ 
deniensis as fruit plants are the handsomest of the large-growing Bush 
Honeysuckles with dark green leaves and orange-red fruits. More 
beautiful when in flower is the hybrid of L. tatarica with the Persian 
L. Korolkovii which is called L. amoena. This is a smaller plant than 
the other hybrids of the Tartarian Honeysuckle with pale gray-green 
leaves, small pink flowers and small red fruits. When it is in bloom 
this plant is considered by many persons the most beautiful Lonicera 
in the collection. The Japanese L. Morrowii is more beautiful now 
when it is covered with its large orange-red fruits than it was when 
the yellow and white flowers were open in early spring. This is a 
round-topped shrub, much broader than high, with gray-green foliage, 
and long lower branches which cling close to the ground. When it can 
have sufficient room in which to grow this is one of the handsomest 
of the Honeysuckles and one of the best shrubs introduced into the 
United States by the Arboretum. There are two hybrids of this species 
in the collection, L. minutiflora with small, translucent, yellow fruit, 
and L. muscaviensis with large bright scarlet fruit. They are large, 
hardy and fast-growing plants. Very different are the bright blue 
fruits of the different geographical forms of the widely distributed 
Lonicera coerulea which are now ripe. These fruits are beautiful but 
they are a good deal covered by the leaves, and the plants are not as 
conspicuous at this season of the year as the Tartarian and several of 
the other Bush Honeysuckles. The bright red fruit of Lonicera tri- 
chosantha is conspicuous in the last weeks of July. This is a shrub now 
three or four feet tall in the Arboretum, with erect stems, large yellow 
and white flowers, and fruits rather larger than those of the Tartarian 
