beauties ju^t coming into flower to delight every 

 one fortunate enough to see them, while all the 

 other lilacs were already pa^ their prime. Yet 

 Lutece and Villosa will be abloom all through 

 June with a display of loveliness such as I find it 

 impossible to describe. The Lilac Lutece is one of 

 the group of hybrids to which the general name of 

 Henryi has been given and they were obtained in 

 the gardens of the Musee d'Histoire Naturelle in 

 Paris by crossing Villosa with the Hungarian 

 variety Josikaea, so you see that Villosa is a 

 parent of Lutece. 



^ To bring these supremely lovely lilacs to the 

 perfection of vigor and of form of those I mention, 

 you should order your plants now for Fall de- 

 livery, but the places where they are to be planted 

 should be prepared in advance. See that the holes 

 are dug deep and wide, regardless of the size of the 

 plants, and in the bottom — they should be at 

 lea^ three feet deep and four feet wide — lay 

 stones or other drainage material (if the drainage 

 is n't naturally good) and on this drainage spread 

 a six inch layer of old manure and litter. Then fill 

 the holes with good soil in which at lea^ a quart 

 of bone meal has been incorporated, and when 

 your plants arrive, you will be enabled to " set " 

 them without delay. They mu^ be planted firmly 

 and watered thoroughly. Then spread a mulch of 

 a few inches of old manure over the surface and 

 there it should remain until next Spring when it 

 should be *' forked in " to provide moi^ure hold- 

 ing material. 



