tained in America, so I wrote to Professor Sargent 

 of the Arnold Arboretum who sugge^ed that I 

 write to Mr. T. A. Havemeyer of Glen Head, 

 Long Island, and I am happy to be able to tell you 

 that Mr. Havemeyer has advised me that he can 

 supply Henryi Lutece in small plants but he has a 

 very limited ^ock of them. However, in a way a 

 small plant is really an advantage because its 

 training to form, its vigor and future beauty 

 may begin while the plants are infants, as it were. 

 ^ The specimen of Lutece I saw was ten feet high 

 and at lea^ ten feet broad and ten feet through. 

 Its lowe^ branches re^ed on the ground; its 

 trunk was not visible. As it grew the branches 

 narrowed until the top was an oval, not more 

 than a few feet across, so generously foliaged, so 

 weighted with flowers I could not see from whence 

 they came. I have never, never seen any growing 

 thing possessing such extraordinary grace. The 

 flower sprays of delicately tinted lavender with 

 ju^ a sugge^ion of cloudy pink are held aloft on 

 the lowe^ branches, whil^ those on the inter- 

 mediate branches weep and those at the top are 

 held firmly upright, presenting a floral display as 

 diversified and as interesting as it was arrestingly 

 beautiful. The sprays are feathery in effect, and 

 quite twelve to fifteen inches in length, and so 

 abundantly produced I did not attempt counting 

 even those on the lower branches. 

 ^ Villosa was of the same form and size, only 

 Villosa's flowers are a true pink, yes, a soft, ten- 

 der, rare pink. Here I found these two super- 



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