LUTECE AND VILLOSA 



|T was the eighth of June, at The 

 Arnold Arboretum of Harvard 

 University, I saw Lutece in 

 bloom, or rather ju^ coming 

 into bloom. Villosa I had seen 



many times before in private gardens and 

 nurseries but Villosa did not seem the 

 same, because it mu^ have been they had 

 been grown in crowded places or were not 

 trained by pruning to such wondrous form. 

 ^ Villosa and Lutece were growing side by 

 side but with a space of at lea^t fifteen feet 

 between them and with great soil saucers, 

 six feet and more across, indented in the 

 velvety green sod. I did not intend telling 

 you about this rare hybrid Syringa Lutece 

 at all, unless I could learn if it could be ob- 



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