the gates, and to walk the miles and miles necessary Avould have 

 been very tiring, and then I might have missed something. I 

 found no "Keep Off the Grass" signs. Yon may sit anywhere you 

 Avish, notA^ithstanding there are hundreds of acres of fine sward 

 to care for, and no loving gardener in a tiny garden ever gave 

 more comprehensive care to her small lawn than does the Arnold 

 Arboretum, to its miles and miles of velvety, carpet-like grass, 

 inviting rest and study. The sun was dazzling and the air was 

 cool but the grass was dry, and I sat before the very beautiful 

 things from western China, from Asia, from the world over, 

 marveling and feasting my eyes njion plants and shrubs and vines 

 that were I to describe them adequately woiild mean a new dic- 

 tionary made up entirely of adjectives. That is what puzzles me. 

 How am I to describe what I have seen and not write like a mad 

 woman? H'oav am I to tell, not of one toucliingiy beautiful plant, 

 but of hundreds equally beautiful? For example, here is a Rosa 

 Ecae. It is like a veil of green lace. The stems are as if enameled 

 in cerise, the quaint little blossoms are just like the waxy tlower 

 of a greenhouse-grown begonia. It is five feet tall and as wide, 

 and its form is like a fountain of silvery green water. Not one 

 tiny thing disfigures it. It is perfect and indescribably lovely. 

 That is just one of hundreds of such. 



I saw the famous Globe Buddleia Albiflora which Avas in 

 flower. I found it in an exposed position, magnificent as to form, 

 with hundreds and hundreds of exquisitely shaded mauve tassels 

 swinging airily in the gentle breeze. Its foliage was fine and un- 

 blemished. Its globe form the result of pruning, just the same 

 sort of pruning we give our globe-form bay, box and privet speci- 

 mens. It was lovely in July and in September I found it just as 

 lovely. Reluctantly, I left this superb Buddleia to view the novel 

 Lespedeza called Cystobotrya. 



You will recall I have spoken before in Our'Garden Journal 

 and in Garden Talks of Lespedeza Desmodium Pendula but this 

 Cystobotrya is altogether new, although it has the same fine 

 foliage of many tones of glistening green as Desdemodium Pen- 

 dula. 



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