A GARDEN NOTE-BOOK 



nience to see a grandeur, inspiring but impossible 

 of reproduction in miniature. To Boston most 

 of us may go without many of the disadvantages 

 just mentioned and with the certainty of knowing 

 that here too, we shall see pictures in trees and 

 shrubs, on hill and in valley, and along the stream- 

 side, a beauty of an intimate and finished kind, 

 therefore a beauty upon which we can fitly model 

 our own domain, large or small though this may 

 be. Let us look for an instant at this charm- 

 ing illustration in which lilacs are the sub- 

 jects, and before commenting upon it let me 

 remind the reader that over one hundred and sixty 

 named varieties of the lilac are to be found in 

 the arboretum. Among these some of the finest 

 are Congo, Marie Legraye, Philemon, Bleuatre, 

 Belle de Nancy, Gloire des Moulins, these six 

 giving a wide range of variety in color. And does 

 the reader know the two species lilacs, Syringa 

 pubescens and Syringa villosa? If not, let me 

 assure him that these, which appear in great beauty 

 in the arboretum, wUl give him a new sensation 

 in flowering shrubs. To stand before any of these 

 in full flower, in the arboretum, is like standing 

 before a shrine, yet there is a larger admiration 

 we may feel if we but see this place with open eyes. 



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