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NOTEWORTHY PLANTS IN FLOWER AT THE 
ARNOLD ARBORETUM. 
The first of the Japanese Cherries to flower is Prunas 
Sargentii. This is a tall tree in the native t orests ol the 
Northern Island where it is valued as a timber tree. There 
are six specimens of different sizes on the Forest Hill 
Road, and they are now covered with clusters ol large 
pink or rose-colored single 1 lowers, lor the color of tne 
ilowers of this tree vary considerably on different indi¬ 
viduals. The small black fruits which ripen in J une are 
almost hidden by the large dark green leaves which in the 
autumn turn to shades of orange and red; the smooth, 
shining, reddish hark adds to the beauty ol this tree. 
Travellers who have seen Cherry blossoms in many lands 
declare that Prunus Sargentii as it now appears in the 
Arboretum surpasses in beauty all other Cherry-trees. 
Whether this is an exaggeration or not it is certainly a 
Jree of first-rate importance for New England; and its 
hardiness, rapid growth, large size, the abundance of its 
flowers even on small plants, and its handsome foliage 
make it the most valuable deciduous leaved tree we have 
yet obtained from Japan. The trees in the Arboretum 
produce large crops ol seeds and these germinate readily 
so that there is no reason why Pranas Sargentii should 
not become a common tree if nurserymen will recognize 
its value and make a business of making it known to the 
public. 
The better known Prunus penduta flowers a few days 
later. This tree is remarkable for ils long, slender, pen¬ 
dulous branches which before the leaves expand are cov¬ 
ered with small pink flowers. P. penduta, which does 
not appear to he common in a wild state in Japan, is often 
planted in Japanese gardens in which it sometimes grows 
to a large size. It was brought to the United States 
many years ago, and specimens from twenty to thirty 
feet high can be seen in the neighborhood of Boston. By 
nurserymen it has usually been propagated by grafting 
on tall stems of the common Cherry, with the result that 
the trees look unnatural and are rarely long-lived. Plants 
produced by grafting at the ground level grow to a larger 
size, live longer, and when in flower look like fountains 
of pink mist. It has been shown at the Arboretum that 
the drooping habit of the branches is reproduced in seed¬ 
lings, and as this Cherry bears seeds freely, seedling 
plants will, it is to be hoped become more common. 
A plant with even more beautiful and more abundant 
flowers than Pranas penduta is Pranas subhirtella, or as 
it is now labelled in the Arboretum, P. pendala asccn- 
dens, a small tree, or as it has grown here a large shrub, 
from central Japan, and now known through Wilson’s 
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collections to occur also in western China. 11 is per¬ 
fectly hardy and flowers freely every year. Introduced 
into the Arboretum over twenty years ago, and from here 
sent to Europe, it is surprising that this handsome plant 
has remained so little known in gardens. 
Pranas triloba can be seen in flower near P. tomentosa 
just below the entrance to the Shrub Collection at the 
Forest Hill gate. It is a shrub with bright clear pink 
flowers which are about an inch in diameter and appear 
before the leaves. The double flowered form of this 
shrub (var. multiplex) is a favorite garden plant in 
China whence forty or fifty years ago it was introduced 
into Europe and llie United States where it is often culti¬ 
vated. The much more beautiful single-flowered plant 
grows on the mountains near Peking and appears to have 
been cultivated for the first time in the Arboretum to 
which seeds were sent from China in 1882. Although 
perfectly hardy P. triloba is not a particularly vigorous 
plant. It well deserves a place, however, in every gar¬ 
den for the charming color of the flowers. 
The Plum-trees in tin* group next to the Cherries and 
at the principal entrance to the Shrub Collection from the 
Meadow Bond are beginning to open their flower-buds. 
The earliest is the Canada Plum (Pranas nigra). This 
is the most northern of the American Plums, being dis¬ 
tributed from Newfoundland to tin' shores of I In* Strait ol 
Mackinaw and southward to the northern borders of the 
United States. It is a small tree with rough dark bark, 
rather erect, ridges, spiny branches, and flowers slightly 
tinged with pink and becoming rose-colored in fading. 
This is not one of the handsomest of the American Plum- 
mention The National Nurseryman. 
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