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its dainty cut foliage, '^pinnatifid" in scientific 

 accuracy, seemed to belie the name until an even 

 daintier flower came to herald what may happen 

 this year. There have been many surprises, so 

 far, and others are coming, I know. The subjects 

 that have bloomed are different, beautiful, and 

 worth while; and that is just what Professor 

 Sargent has been aiming for, as the tree and 

 plant benefactor he is. 



The Arboretum bed has been rather consider- 

 ably changed, last fall and this spring, to give 

 room to the more vigorous plants, and to put 

 certain shrubs where they will obviously be better 

 placed. That is part of the fun of it. 



Three years after the dwarf orchard was 

 planted there were several vacancies to fill, caused 

 by the assiduous work of the borers. I concluded 

 to fill them, and to add as well several varieties 

 of "old-home" pears, planting standard rather 

 than dwarf trees. One Bismarck apple that had 

 passed on gave room for another old-home sort, 

 the Smokehouse. I'm working out a theory in 

 the planting of this apple tree. From a nursery 

 that grows apple trees by the milhon I had sent 

 me a selected one-year-old Smokehouse — ^that is, 

 one year from the bud, one season's growth of the 

 Smokehouse scion, but two years of root age. This 



