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1915 

 fimile Gentil, double, bright cobalt-blue, 

 Paul Thirion, double, claret-rose, carmine buds. 

 Claude Bernard, double, bright mauve lilac, early flowering. 

 Jean Mace, double, mauve, early. 

 Diderot, single, claret-purple. 

 Mont Blanc, single, the finest white. 



1916 

 Edith Cavell, double pure milk-white, buds cream and sulphur. 

 Julien Gerardin, double soft lilac. 

 Saturnale, single bluish-mauve. 

 Vesuve, single, claret-purple, nearly red. 



Garden cities are very well, but even more interesting will it 

 be when cities, towns, and villages are renowned for the develop- 

 ment of special flowers. Such there are already. Charleston 

 speaks to the lover of horticulture through its renowned azaleas; 

 Portland by means of roses; Rochester, through lilacs; the 

 suburbs of Philadelphia by their unexampled beauty in the 

 spring. No doubt we shall soon have towns and villages every- 

 where celebrated for great lilac collections, or on all of whose 

 individually owned grounds the loveliest specimens of the lilac 

 shall grow to such perfection as to couple the word "lilac" 

 with the local name. Those who live in our great industrial 

 centres are rapidly encircling these towns and cities with beauty, 

 creating fine places and notable gardens; but until each man 

 has his own small bit of ground, and finds the best use of that 

 for both food and flowers, we shall not have arrived, as a nation, 

 at an eminence of possible development. The lilac is the shrub 

 which delights all classes of men, and its more general distribu- 

 tion in its finer forms is greatly to be hoped for in the interests 

 of a nobler horticulture and of the ever-improving aspect of 

 the American scene. 



