A GARDEN NOTE-BOOK 



Pasteur has superb blooms of rich reddish pur- 

 ple. Its thyrses are tall and open, with large sin- 

 gle flowerets. Coerulea superba has small but full 

 clusters, rather bluish in tone. This variety is 

 particularly free-flowering with loose branches, 

 a great beauty. The bloom of Danton is of a 

 very fine, clear, deep red-purple, with a large 

 floweret. President Fallieres is one of the loveli- 

 est, a charming semi-double pinkish bloom. Loose 

 clusters of flowers came in tremendous numbers 

 upon this three-foot specimen the first year after 

 planting. Claude Bernard, with its palest lav- 

 ender-pink flowers, is also very free-blooming. 

 President Poincare has enchanting bluish flowers, 

 double, with reddish-purple buds, buds and flowers 

 an interesting contrast in color. Vestale is marked 

 by many spikes of single white bloom on terminal 

 branchlets. There is a special charm for me in 

 Rene Jarry-Desloges, whose palest bluish-lavender 

 flower, double, has a delicacy all its own. Thun- 

 berg is lovely • because of its deep-red buds all the 

 way up the thyrsus of pink-lavender bloom. This 

 gives a remarkable richness to the clustering 

 flowers, which appear in four steeples, as one might 

 say, to each cluster. 



Syringa Diderot, though moved in autumn, has 



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