of planted acres to be considered. ^ Think of a 

 pink lilac almo^ the pink of Psyche or 

 Madame Krelage Darwin tulips or a La France 

 rose! Such a pink is the Belle de Nancy, and 

 Maxime Cornu and President Faillieres are pink 

 too, a pink which seems pinker beside the pure, 

 clear lilac panicles of Alphonse Lavelle, and the 

 very, very large lilac rose of Leon Gambetta, a giant 

 indeed, but a beautiful giant. Rather a ^rangely 

 tinted lovely and intere^ing specimen is Lucie 

 Baltet, a soft rose suffused with a coppery glow. 

 Maurice de Vilmorin is an azure-blue having 

 pearl-white centres, while Arthur W. Paul is a 

 clear crimson and pearly-white. Charles Sargent is 

 a notable hybrid-lilac in-as-much as its enormous 

 panicles of flowers are not only mauve-blue but 

 they have a metallic lu^re which makes it quite 

 an extraordinary hybrid. How diffident and sweet 

 is Mme. Lemoine, so purely white, so dainty! 

 and I very much admire Mme. Perrier and Mme. 

 Florent Stepman. Their flowers are larger than 

 Mme. Lemoine's but not so delicately fashioned. 

 I have written so often about the beauty of 

 President Grevy, whose flowers are a tender 

 lavender-blue, and we have splendid Lamartine 



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