A GARDEN NOTE-BOOK 



subjects for the arboretum, but in 1878 the first 

 tree-seeds from eastern Asia were received. These 

 were from Sapporo, in northern Japan. The Jap- 

 anese tree-Hlac, the two cKmbing hydrangeas, and 

 a new magnoHa were among the plants thus intro- 

 duced. Four years later from Peking came the 

 first shrub and tree seeds from China, among them 

 the two beautiful lilacs, Syringa villosa and Syringa 

 pubescens, which if the reader does not know it is 

 his own great loss. The success of these Chinese 

 seeds in the arboretum gave Professor Sargent the 

 idea of botanical exploration by the arboretum in 

 China; Mr. E. H. Wilson was sent thither, with 

 the result that the arboretum stands alone to-day 

 as the source of information in Western lands of 

 the woody vegetation of eastern Asia. Korea and 

 northern China are also represented through the 

 arboretum's travellers. 



Of the laboratories and nurseries of the arbo- 

 retum, it can be truly said that their line is gone 

 out over all the earth. Research results and plants 

 have been sent to all other countries, and that 

 great-hearted devotee of plants who long presided 

 over the nurseries, Jackson Dawson, made an abid- 

 ing place for himself in the science of hybridizing. 

 The library and herbarium of the arboretum are 



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