The Japan Witch Hazel has been now blooming several years in America, and seems scarcely different from the American species, Hamamelis Virginiana. It is one of the wonderful facts of nature that so many plants native to the Eastern United States should be also native to the woods of Japan.

The Japanese left a plant of this in their garden at Fairmount Park, at the Centennial. It is said to flower in spring, whereas the American flowers in the fall. It is Hamamelis arborea; the American is H. Virginica.