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sea, he found the glorious lily covering 

 with its flowers the valley levels and 

 the precipitous mountain sides. 



The scene was one of marvelous 

 beauty. For a brief season in June 

 the lonely, semi-desert region is trans- 

 formed into a veritable fairyland. His 

 discovery nearly cost Mr. Wilson a 

 leg, for in gathering the bulbs on a 

 rocky slope a boulder fell upon it and 

 crushed it. Being, as he was, hundreds 

 of miles from even the most rudimen- 

 tary surgical aid, the condition of his 

 injury became most serious before it 

 was treated. 



I fear that California is going to 

 suffer even more than some other 

 parts of the country as a result of 

 the exclusion ruling of the Federal 

 Horticultural Board. Professor Wil- 

 son, on his trip to India and Australia, 

 expects to find many fine plants which 

 would thrive on the Pacific coast and 

 enrich the flora of that section. In the 

 past the Arnold Arboretum has added 

 many good new plants to the list of 

 those growing well In California, and 

 hoped to provide many more as a re- 

 sult of this expedition. As it is. how- 

 ever, it is not probable that any at- 

 tempt will be made to send such plants 

 home, however attractive they may be. 

 It is likely that Professor Wilson's 

 discoveries will be sent to England 

 and distributed from there. This is a 

 statement which will not fall very 

 pleasantly on the ears of gardeners 

 and garden lovers in United States 

 who are interested in the horticultur- 

 al advancement of the country and ap- 

 preciate what the Arnold Arboretum 

 has done in the past in the way of 



making important introductions. It 

 may be that some seeds will be sent 

 here, but the Board rules, I under- 

 stand, that they cannot be sent by 

 mail and can be admitted only if they 

 come by express, when they are ex- 

 amined by experts of the Board at the 

 port of entrance. It seems rather ab- 

 surd, however, to think of sending a 

 half ounce of seed in an express pack- 

 age. 



The last bulletin of the New York 

 Botanical Garden is an exceedingly 

 interesting document. It is really the 

 fourth edition of a descriptive guide 

 to the grounds, buildings and collec- 

 tons. The fact that it contains 212 

 pages, besides numerous illustrations, 

 indicates that it contains a pretty com- 

 plete description of an institution 

 which has gained more than national 

 fame, and is doing a splendid work in 

 the horticultural interests of the 

 country. 



The activities of the garden are 

 many and important, and the 400 

 acres of land which are occupied fur- 

 nish natural landscape of great beauty 

 and variety. In the herbarium on the 

 upper floor of the museum building is 

 the most extensive and complete col- 

 lection of the kind in America, com- 

 prising as it does the Garden Herb- 

 arium and the Herbarium of Columbia 

 university. The latter is one of the 

 oldest collections of its kind in the 

 United States, having been begrun by 

 Dr. John Torrey soon after the com- 

 mencement of the last century. The 

 combined herbariums comprise more 

 than a million and a half specimens. 



The greenhouses are perhaps the 



most interesting features to the public, 

 but students spend much time pro- 

 fitably in the pinetum which has been 

 carefully developed, and includes a 

 great many foreign specimens. Ad- 

 joining is the deciduous arboretum in 

 which are trees covering an even 

 wider range. 



I have touched in the briefest way 

 on the contents of the garden as men- 

 tioned in this illuminating bulletin, 

 and might go on to write at length 

 about the cherry collection, the rose 

 garden, the lilac garden, the dahlia 

 collection, the water garden, the 

 hemlock forest, the shrub garden, and 

 the many decorative features which 

 are found here and there. A perusal 

 cf the Bulletin will give a season of 

 enjoyment only next to that of a visit 

 to the garden itself. 



It seems that the Western visitor 

 who recently inspected the gardens 

 around Boston on the occasion of the 

 Convention of the National Garden 

 Clubs on the North Shore did not ad- 

 mit that the estates of the East are 

 any finer than those in the West. At 

 any rate, one writer in a Chicago paper 

 says: 



"It is not without satisfaction that 

 we glean from those members of the 

 Garden Clubs in Illinois who are 

 slowly returning from the big general 

 meeting of the National Garden Clubs, 

 in June, that while there are some 

 lovely gardens thereabouts, taken as a 

 whole they do not shake the supremacy 

 conceded by many experts to the gar- 

 dens near Chicago." The writer then 

 goes on to point out that two of the 

 show gardens around Boston are really 

 owned and directed by Chicago women, 

 Mrs. R. T. Crane and Mrs. James H. 

 Moore. The former place is the one of 

 which Robert Cameron, for many years 

 at the Harvard Botanical Gardens, is 

 now superintendent. Mr. Cameron is 

 doing much to make this the finest 

 place on the North Shore, and has the 

 ability to succeed. After all, though, I 

 do not think it is the purpose of the 

 women to make invidious comparisons, 

 but rather to work in harmony for the 

 building up of horticultural interests 

 throughout the country, each garden 

 owner learning what she can from the 

 work of others. 



