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Not to specifically mention one mock orange, 

 Philadelphus Lemoinei var. Avalanche, would be 

 unjust to it and to my garden friends. It is one 

 of the sorts "made in France," but from two 

 American species, by the patient wonder-worker 

 at Nancy. The name "Avalanche" describes it 

 fully; it is a snowstorm, a cascade of white flowers 

 for two weeks. There are other of these Lemoine 

 mock-oranges coming along, extending the sea- 

 son and showing desirable variations in size psiid 

 form of flower. I am inclined to believe that a 

 proper selection of the Philadelphuses will give 

 more delightful and fragrant white flowers in 

 early summer than most planters suspect. 



The Japanese honeysuckle is a weed in the 

 neighborhood of Breeze Hill, having evidently 

 "escaped" years ago. One great specimen has 

 flung its persistent branches and tendrils over a 

 nearly rotten tree-stump right at the carriage 

 stone, and it has been most of June almost intoxi- 

 cating both to the eye and the nose. I have 

 propped the old stump, and pruned the old honey- 

 suckle, hoping to have both last long. Along 

 the curved Hillside Road front of the Breeze Hill 

 boundary, outside, this same honeysuckle has 

 made green and lovely a rough shale slope. 



The garden is an exacting mistress in June, and 



