June 21, 1919 



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arranged in erect, from five to ten- 

 flowered racemes. This plant . is more 

 common in gardens than the last and 

 when it is in bloom it makes a great 

 show. P. microphyHus, which rarely 

 grows more than three feet tall, has 

 slender stems, and leaves and flowers 

 smaller than those of any Philadel- 

 phia in cultivation. What the flowers 

 lack in size, however, is made up in 

 fragrance which is stronger than that 

 of any other Syringa and perfumes the 

 air for a long distance. 



The most distinct and the hand- 

 somest of the Asiatic species in the 

 Arboretum is Philadelphus purpuras- 

 cens, discovered by Wilson in western 

 China. It is a large shrub with long 

 arching stems from which rise numer- 

 ous branchlets from four to six inches 

 long and spreading at right angles; 

 on these branchlets the flowers are 



borne on drooping stalks; they are an 

 inch and a half long, with a bright 

 purple calyx and pure white petals, 

 which do not spread as they do on 

 most of the species but form a bell- 

 shaped corolla and are exceedingly 

 fragrant. This is one of the handsom- 

 est of the shrubs brought from west- 

 ern China to the Arboretum. Phila- 

 delphus pekinensis from northern 

 China and Mongolia is a stout bush 

 rather broader than high which every 

 year produces great quantities of 

 small flowers tinged with yellow. 



Another interesting garden plant, P. 

 Falconerii, which is certainly Asiatic 

 and probably Japanese, has narrow 

 lanceolate leaves and fragrant flow- 

 ers in from one to six-flowered 

 racemes, and is distinct in the shape 

 of its leaves and in its long narrow 

 petals. 



One of the first of these hybrids to 

 attract attention was raised in Prance 

 before 1870 by Monsieur A. Billard; it 

 is known as Philadelphus insignis 

 and sometimes is called Souvenir de 

 Billard. It is one of the handsomest 

 of the large-growing Syringas, and the 

 last or nearly the last to bloom in .the 

 Arboretum, for the flowers will not be 

 open for another month. A hybrid 

 probably between P. grandiflorus of 

 the Appalachian Mountain region with 

 a species from our northwest coast 

 appeared in the Arboretum a few 

 years ago and has been named P. 

 splendens; it is a large and vigorous 

 shrub with unusually large flowers, 

 and one of the handsomest Syringas 

 in the collection. Philadelphus maxi- 

 mus. a supposed hybrid between P. 

 latifolius from the southeastern 

 United States, and P. tomentosus from 

 the Himalayas, grows to a larger size 

 than ,any of the other Syringas. It >s 

 not rare in old Massachusetts gardens 

 in which plants from twenty to thirty 

 feet high can occasionally be • seen. 

 The crossing about thirty years ago in 

 France by Lemoine of P. coronarius 

 with P. microphyHus has produced an 

 entirely new race of Syringas which 

 has proved to be one of the best ad- 

 ditions to garden shrubs that has ever 

 been made. The first plant obtained 

 by this cross is called Philadelphus 

 Lemoinei; it is a perfectly hardy 

 shrub four or five feet high and broad, 

 with slender stems .which bend from 

 the weight of countless flowers; these 

 are intermediate in size between those 

 of the two parents and retain the fra- 

 grance of, P. microphyHus. There are 

 at least a dozen distinct forms of this 

 hybrid made by Lemoine, varying 

 considerably in the size of the plants 

 and of the, flowers, and in the time of 

 flowering. 



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