ORNAMENTAL FRUITED TREES AND SHRUBS 89

Provided they be given sufficient room to develop,
no shrubs are more beautiful in fruit than the Bush
Honeysuckles of which there is a great variety.
The best with red fruits hails from the Old World
and none is more handsome than Lonicera MonowiU
native of northern Japan. This is a fairly large
growing shrub with spreading branches and bears in
enormous quantities bright crimson berries which
ripen in early July and remain on the branches until
winter. The common Tatarian Honeysuckle (L.
tatarica), which ranges from southern Russia to
central Asia and of which there are many varieties,
stOl remains one of the best. Another old and valu-
able species is L. Ruprechtiana native of northeast
continental Asia. Others are L. Xylosteum with wine-
colored fruits, native of Europe, Asia Minor, and
western Siberia and L. chrysantha, with lustrous crim-
son fruits, from northeastern Asia. These five
species have long been in cultivation in Europe and
this country and have given rise to numerous hybrids
more beautiful even than themselves. Among the
best of these with red fruits are L. muscoDiensis and L.
muendeniensis. The former originated in a nursery at
Muskau in Silesia from seeds received from the
Petrograd Botanic Gardens and is considered to be a
hybrid between L. Ruprechtiana and L. Monowii. It



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is a large shrub twelve feet high and more in diameter
with arching and spreading branches and masses of
crimson fruits which ripen early in July. The latter
is a mixture of L. tatarica, L. Monowiu and L.
Ruprechliana which originated in the Botanic Garden
at Muenden in central Germany. It is also a large
shrub with erect-spreading branches, rather small
leaves, and scarlet berries.
