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of Turbat, Orleans, France, from whom we imported them, and I 

 think there is room for much improvement in the descriptions 

 of this class of shrubs." 



Among these surely one or two might be chosen to try out in 

 any small garden. This shrub needs, however, sufficient room 

 in which to develop. It is tall rather than wide, but should 

 have from four to five square feet of ground to itself for the 

 finest results. It is its August bloom that first commends it to 

 the gardener, for the flowering shrub of August is exceedingly 

 rare. 



One of Mr. T. A. Havemeyer's recommendations of the new 

 French hybrids in lilacs — one particularly suitable for the 

 small garden — is that they can be planted along a fence and 

 still interfere with nothing grown more than five feet away; 

 also the same authority makes an astounding assertion: when 

 the bushes get too large, cut them down to the ground, and in 

 two years you will have finer lilacs than ever. This experiment 

 I shall try; but while one could never doubt the wisdom of 

 following ad\'ice from this source, I shall begin such drastic 

 doings with one of our less lovely varieties. Never could I take 

 the axe to machrostachya, to £mile Gentil, to Julien Girardin, to 

 President Fallieres, to Danton, or to that beauty in lilacs from 

 which I am expecting such clusters of bluish flowers, Bleuatre. 



Lilac Princess Alexandra came to this place some years ago 

 from Professor Sargent. It flowered abundantly in the spring 

 of 1922 and impressed everyone by its great beauty. It has 

 matchless thyrses of pure waxen white flowers, freely borne 

 upon a shapely bush covered with leaves almost as dark a green 

 as English ivy. "WTiat a satisfaction then to have what has 

 lately come here, a little pamphlet or price list from a nursery- 

 man who devotes himself largely to growing this one lilac. 



The association of the lilac for Americans is the immemorial 



