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GARDENING. 



June 15, 



Virginalis is also good in the creamy 

 whites, the truss being quite long and 

 larger in diameter at its base. 



Mme. Moser is a variety that will un- 

 doubtedly prove good if not the best of 

 white lilacs. In habit it is perfect and is 

 also a very strong grower. Its foliage is 

 of the very best style while its truss is the 

 largest of the pure whites. 



Schneelawine is so near white that I 

 shall class it with them, though it is 



TRUE LILAC COLOR. 



(There are many varying slightly in the 

 shades of lilac.) 



Eckenholm has a very long, full-sized 

 spike, and is of an excellent habit. 



Dr. Regel, a superb variety both in its 

 habit and freedom of flowering. The 

 pinkish lilac trusses are very large and 

 erect. 



Rubra Trianoniana makes one of the 

 finest specimens we have, of medium 



LILAC PRAU BERTHA DAMMANN. 



decidedly distinct in color from any other 

 lilac I know. After it has been in bloom 

 for two or three days I would describe 

 the color as being pearl with a pinkish 

 cast. This variety is very distinct and 

 novel. 



DARK SINGLE. 



Philemon is certainly the king of the 

 dark lilacs. The color might be described 

 as a deep heliotrope with a possible red- 

 dish tinge scattered through. The truss 

 is quite long and perfect in shape, while 

 the habit of the plant is very tall and up- 

 right. Souvenir de L. Spath is identical 

 with Philemon, the similarity of the two 

 varieties in different places and here being 

 very marked. Which name has the pref- 

 erence I do not know. 



Pres. C. S. Sargent: The habit of this 

 variety is more compact than that of 

 Philemon. The truss is very thick while 

 the color is almost a true heliotrope with 

 a slight bluish cast. A very good variety. 



I 'res. Massart is another good variety 

 of the heliotrope color. 



Rubra insignis is a remarkably sturdy 

 variety with a very heavy short truss, 

 the color being mauve or reddish purple. 

 A very fine variety. 



height, the compact trusses being true 

 lilac in color. 



Furst Leichtenstein is noticeable on ac- 

 count of its very upright character. The 

 color of the trusses is a pinkish lilac. 



Charles X needs no mention as it is well 

 known to be the best of the lilac shade. 



Emil Liebig is one of the very best of 

 the pale lilac type, and is a remarkably 

 free bloomer. 



Giganteais a remarkably fine specimen, 

 perfect in form, excellent large and rather 

 long truss, in color almost pearl with a 

 very slight light pink tinge. Very dis- 

 tinct. 



Lilarosa is a splendid variety, bearing 

 a great many clusters of true pink flowers. 



BLUISH TINGE. 



In this color we find many, too. 



Ccerulea superba stands at the front. 

 It is of good upright yet graceful habit, 

 the trusses of medium size only, but borne 

 in great profusion. The color is a decided 

 blue. 



Prinz Notger has a long and airy truss, 

 the color almost indescribable, a sort of 

 dull bluish lilac. A very odd variety but 

 not specially attractive. 



Vergissmeinicht has a truss rather loose 



in form, but the color is a superb blue, 

 which makes it verv noticeable. 



The double lilacs are now so numerous 

 and good that I hesitate in giving a select 

 list, as all are very desirable. As a rule 

 the foliage is heavier and darker than 

 that of the single varieties and the trusses 

 or panicles are sometimes twice or three 

 times as large as in the single varieties. 

 The flowers are borne closer together, 

 making the truss very heavy. 



Virginite is probably the most distinct 

 double lilac, the delicate rose pink being 

 a new shade in lilacs. The plant is asyet 

 not over and above strong. The truss is 

 loose and airy in habit and the foliage is 

 somewhat like that of Syringa oblata, 

 only more pointed at the end of the leaf. 

 A most refined and beautiful lilac. 



President Grew has one of the largest 

 trusses in the lilac family. The color is a 

 lavender lilac. The individual flower is 

 of wonderful size While the foliage is ex- 

 ceptionally good. 



Condorset also bears a very heavy truss 

 with good foliage and blue lilac flowers. 

 Very fine. 



Compte Horace de Choiseul I would 

 say was the darkest of the double sorts. 

 The color of the flowers is a decided red- 

 dish purple, the truss being very heavy 

 and compact. 



La Tour d' Auvergne is similar in color 

 to the above variety but a trifle paler. 

 The habit of the plant, however, is per- 

 fect. Very fine. 



Leon Simou is a remarkably distinct 

 variety, the truss only of medium size as 

 seen here, but very heavy, in fact the 

 flowers are crowded together on the truss 

 more than in any other variety. The 

 color is a sort of bluish crimson. 



Pyramidal is a variety with a dwarf 

 habit, and, as the name denotes, long 

 pyramidal clusters of lilac colored flowers. 

 A fine variety. 



Michael Buchner has trusses of medium 

 size flowers, a pale lavender in color. 



Mathieu de Dombasle makes an ex- 

 tremely' long bluish lilac truss and is a 

 very sturdy grower. 



Alphonse Lavallee is bluish lilac, the 

 truss very large, while the entire appear- 

 ance of the plant is the most striking of 

 any in our entire collection. It is consid- 

 ered the most perfect specimen. 



Lamarck is a splendid variety, pale lilac 

 in color, when full blown the buds having 

 a decided crushed strawberry tinge and 

 when combined with some full blown 

 flowers makes a handsome truss. 



I have tried to make the list shorter 

 but even now I have been obliged to leave 

 out a number of fine varieties. 



Chas. Jackson Dawson. 

 Arnold Arboretum. 



NOTES ON TREES AND SHRUBS. 



The rose acacia, Robiniahispida, which 

 is beautifully in flower at this writing, 

 May 2Gth, is usually grown on its own 

 roots in this country, hence, as it is a 

 slow, shrub-like grower.it does not make 

 the appearance it does in Europe, where 

 it is usually grafted on the common yel- 

 low locust, Robinia Pseudacacia. It is 

 not so grown here, because of the borer 

 which attacks the yellow locust and 

 which destroys so many of the young 

 trees. 



Styrax Ohassia is a valuable Japanese 

 tree. It has been introduced for some 

 time, but it is still quite scarce in cultiva- 

 tion. It is in flower now, the drooping 

 racemes of white flowers being some six 

 inches in length. The leaves are large 

 and handsome, and altogether the tree is 



