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the gardeners- magazine. 
i NOTES FROM THE ARNOLD | 
j ARBORETUM. % 
The number of trees and shrubs at pre¬ 
sent (November 4) brightening up the late 
autumn days with their showy fruits is 
consideraible, and so a note on a few of the 
choicer ones may be of interest to those 
who Jive in the “ old country.” 
The Black Alder or Winter berry (Ilex 
verticillata) is a native of the U.S.A., and 
forms erect-growing bushes, 5ft. high, that 
are now completely covert with a blaze 
of scarlet berries, and are decidedly attrac¬ 
tive. Ilex Isevigata, also a native^ is very 
similar in appearance, except that the ber¬ 
the side of a drivew ay, with its clusters of 
showy scarlet berries. Euonymus alatus 
is a much-branched shrub with curiously- 
winged branches,' and grows 8ft. high and 
about 10ft. through, and, although but 
sparely fruited, its cliief beauty lies in 
the bright scarlet hue of its foliage, which 
IS the first of all to colour up with the ap¬ 
proach of autumn. Euonymus Hamiltoni- 
an^ semipersistens is different to the 
other species, and forms quite a small tree, 
10 to 12ft. high, of erect habit and with 
its foliage still green; while shrubs of E. 
otlier specif are also making a grand 
show on a hiU-side in the Arboretum. Ber- 
lieria vulgaris and its varieties form groups 
in several places, and are loaded witli 
friiitK; while fine specimen bushes of 
Viburnum Opulus, and its .\merican form, 
^, Americanus, are both very attractive 
with their large clusters of re<r fruit. 
Wm. H. Judd. 
Arnold .\rboretum, Mass., T.S.A. 
CYCLAMEN MRS. BUCKSTON. 
For many yours pa«t tho Uov. H. 
Buckston, J.P., Sutton - on - the - Hill, 
Etw’all, I>erh,y, has takcm a keen 
interest in cyclamen and his gar- 
<IeiK»r, Mr. SluimhrooK, has proved a 
most ^oniplished cultivator of these use¬ 
ful winter-flowering subjects. Moreover, 
improvement has been carried out until 
although quite as dense, are hardly 
K colour. The Ink Berry (Ilex 
glabra) has a more spreading habit, with 
^ dense head of leaves, among which are 
o^^^^3^ble small black berries. It is about 
ft. high. Similar berries are produced on 
cx crenata microphylla, from Japan, re- 
^esented by compact-growing bushes that 
® «t. high, with small, j shining foliage, 
^nicera Maaoki var.podocarpa should 
every collection. It is a 
P^did, late-fruiting honeysuckle from 
^ remarkable number of ber- 
•nn ^ dark red, gleaming everywhere 
Ion ho 6ft. high, while the 
T green, poinW foliage is still retained. 
^^ki is quite as freely fruited, 
in 1® “^rries are smaller, and not so deep 
^ those of the variety, and it 
g its leaves much earlier. 
radicans vegetus, from North 
Wch ^ ^ lowlspreading hush about 3ft. 
&.» and presents a bright appearance by 
Hamiltonianus (type) are quite bare. The 
home of the variety is unknown. 
Cornus florida was very attractive a few 
weeks ago with its clusters of large red 
berries on tushes 12ft. and more high, but 
these have now all fallen off, as also have 
the dark fruits of Cornus Mas. During 
September I came across a fine shrub of 
Cornus Kousa in Mount Aiibum Cemetery, 
Mass., bearing quite a number of fruits; 
it was a shrub about 8ft. high, with a 
spreading habit. The Tupelo Tree (Nyssa 
sylvatica) is represented in the Arboretum 
by trees about 25ft. high, covered with 
grape-blue fruits; it likes a damp situa¬ 
tion to grow in. Benzoin d^ivale (Lidera 
Benzoin) the Spice Bush, or Benjamin 
Bush which grows wild in our neighbour¬ 
hood' was a blaze of scarlet fruits about 
a mokth ago, but these have mow fallen. 
The Washington Thorn (Crataegus cor- 
data) is conspicuous in many plao^, with 
its briUiant, smaU red berries; and many 
a splendid strain has resulted, the plants, 
free and sturdy, and carrying substantial 
blooms in plenty, well above the foliage. 
It is w'ith frilled flowers, however, that the 
most obvious improvement has b^n made, 
and when Mr. Shambrook brought up a 
large group of cyclamens to a meeting of 
the Royal Horticultural Society last Febru¬ 
ary everyone admired the variety here¬ 
with figured, and named Mrs. Buckston. 
In this variety exquisite frilling has been 
secured without loss of vigour, and with¬ 
out in any way spoiling the elegance of the 
flowers—indeed, frilling is an added grace 
in this case. At the Derby Chrysanthe¬ 
mum Show, held a week or so ago, Mr. 
Shambrook staged a very fine collection of 
indoor-flowering plants, and conspicuous 
among these were the finely-grown ex¬ 
amples of Cyclamen Mrs. Buckston. The 
specimen illustrated indicates the beauty 
of the varieties, and Mr. Shamhrook’s skill 
as a cultivator. 
