94 EVERSLEY GARDENS 



President Grevy, Lamarck, Leon Simon, Monument 

 Carnot, Condorcet, Doyen Keteleer, Guizot, Marc 

 Micheli. Dark Shades Charles Joly, Colbert, 

 Georges Bel/air, La Tour d'Auvergne, Souvenir de 

 Louis Thibaut, Marechal de Bassompiere. Rosy 

 Lilac Mme. Jules Finger, Rosea grandiflora, 

 Emile Lemoine. 



The Syringa, Philadelphus, or Mock Orange, 

 is not now confined to the one dear old species 

 of our childhood. This has been improved by 

 hybridisation and selection until the flowers, 

 while just as sweet, which is not always the 

 case with new varieties of flowering shrubs, are 

 twice the size of the old kind. The flowers 

 of Gerbe de Neige are enormous, fragrant, and 

 so abundant that the branches are bent down 

 by their weight. Another new hybrid is Boule 

 a" Argent, with large double, fragrant flowers ; 

 Hybridus Lemoinei erectus has small white 

 flowers. But those of Zeyheri, a good hardy 

 shrub, are scentless. 



I hardly ever smell Syringa without recalling 

 an experience of my father's boyhood, which he 

 used to say had been one of his lessons for life. 



