April 18, 1894.] 



Garden and Forest. 



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mottled Rothschildianum being larger in spathe and .better 

 in color than any yet raised. 



A collection of flowering branches of hardy trees and shrubs, 

 sent from Kevv, was a prominent feature in the exhibition. 



A lecture on the rare trees and shrubs in the 2 Arnold 



former. The' feeling created by the paper was that in the 

 cultivation of hardy flowering trees and shrubs America is 

 far more successful than we can ever hope to be, but that 

 in the management of Coniferaj we are in advance of any- 

 thing done Boston way. Monsieur Vilmorin spoke very 



Fig. 30. — Vigna s(robilophofa. — See page 153. 



Arboretum, by Monsieur Maurice de Vilmorin, was an im- 

 portant item in the prograrftme for last Tuesday. Monsieur 

 Vilmorin described some of the most striking of the plants 

 he saw, and compared the behavior of many of them with 

 what they do in Europe, generally to the advantage of the 



highly of the arrangement of the trees, etc., and their man- 

 agement in the Arnold Arboretum. As his lecture will be 

 published in the journal of the society I need not refer at 

 greater length to it now. 



London. }V. WalSOIl. 



