This is the F. Fortuni of English catalogues, as the leaves are both simple and trifoliate on the same plant. It is a far more graceful plant than the old Golden Bell, Forsythia viridissima, and flowers earlier. It blooms, indeed, under a very low temperature, and under warm shelter will be quite as early as the Japan jasmine, Jasminum nudiflorum. It can be trained on trellises against walls like the jasmine. It also may be led up on one stem to make heads, when it is far more interesting than the Kilmarnock willow.