Gardens, but they axe available to the Amateur collector, and are 

 to the plant world what old prints, book plates, etc., are to the 

 collector and connisseur. Why not start with a few of each 

 variety of them, even with only one of each and from time to time 

 add to your collection? - 



They sh(«rJd be planted near the house, at Mr. Havemeyer's 

 they are directly under one's ej^es. Tlfey are given ample space^ 

 and are descriptively labeled. The different varieties ar separ- 

 ated by shrubs of entirely different characteristics such as a bush 

 clematis, Eecta Flore Plena, or a globe or half a globe of Picea 

 Excelsa Ellwangeriana. These serve as a foil to the delicate fine- 

 ness of tlie Cotoneasters, some prostrate, some curving, others 

 spraying and weeping, all of them exceptionally interesting, 

 because of the thickness of their small leaves. A smart breeze 

 causes them to sigh and sing, but the clover and myrtle green 

 foliage never flutters. Their leaves are too small. 



I crossed the driveway to iuspect a specimen, Indigofera 

 (AmblyantJia). It was -ovely, with piuk heathery flowers just at 

 their pinkest, the foliage so delicate, it resembled the wistaria'ti 

 long, feniy leaf sprays. I cannot do it justice. There are too 

 few adjectives, though I don't want to be extravagant, but I might 

 be with reason. 



Another shrub with unusual foliage was Caragana Decorti- 

 cans, not unlike Caragana Arborescens. Caragana Decorticans 

 suggests a fountain of green. The specimen I saw was about ten 

 feet'' high and quite broad. The showering tips of the curving 

 branches touched the ground. The small oval leaves, there are 

 seven on the side of each spray, and at the base of every spray 

 a little tuft of leaves forms a tiny collar. There Avere four of 

 these Caraganas planted in a line extending about fifty feet in 

 length. Another member of the Caragana family is Boisil which 

 is even more ferulike, lacey and exquisite than Caragna Decorti- 

 cans. 



Nearby were the . Sorbarias Aitchisons, willory and pendu- 

 lous, with' long, white tassels almost identical with those of a 

 white buddleia grown under glass. Sorbaria's foliage is golden- 



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