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Simon, with large and stately ])anicles ; Leon Gambetta, 
round flowers of a lilac-pink color, coming early. The 
beautiful, pleasing, pink variety, Mme. Antoine Buchner, 
with thyrses about a foot long. It is a late bloomer. Miss 
Ellen Willmott is easily the best of the double snow- 
whites that come late. Naudin with its deep purple-lilac 
flowers is one of the freest. President Loubet, with large 
purple flowers and red buds is another of the outstanding 
varieties. President Poincare, one of the newest, has 
enormous inflorescens thickly set of a claret-mauve color 
and purple buds. 
These are among the best of the double varieties. Of 
the singles there are Diderot, with enormous panicles 
1 ft. long of claret-purple blooms, and the new Marceau, 
also having enormous flowers of a purple-violet hue ; 
lastly, Pasteur, llowers claret-red fading to violet-red of 
great size. Others which are notably fine are Conge, a 
dark purple single ; Emile Gentil, a double of bright co- 
balt blue ; Paul Thirion, another douljle of claret-rose 
stock of this wonderful shrub can be had it is sure to be 
seen in every garden. A Weeping Cherry, Prunus sub- 
hirtello pendula, was admired, while the Moser's double 
form of P. Pissardii, then passing out of flower, had been 
very handsome. Spiraea Aitchisonii, one of the pinnate 
leaved shrubby forms, producing racemes of creamy- 
white flowers in Summer, could not be passed without 
mention. The white flowered Wistaria venusta was an- 
other notable subject, the racemes in this case being 8 ii;. 
or 9 in. long and of a good white. Nearby was the large 
single white flowered Rubus deliciosus, a very elegant 
and desirable Blackberry. The fieriest of scarlet Cy- 
donias is Lemoine's French raised form named Incendie ; 
nothing richer than this is known. The Japanese blood- 
leaved Maples were represented by a collection of good 
shapely plants in the finest of growth, while of the Jap- 
anese Cherries, which were just a little past their 
freshest as to flowering, the selection seemed to be very 
varied. 
The Xalurnlislit I'laiiliiiii and Grouping Around This Ornantcntal Pond Haz'c Been Most Effeclirely Done. American A\TtiTC 
Sub-shrubs in Considerable Variety Are Most Successfully Croivn. 
color, very distinctive and having carmine buds, also 
Claude Bernard, a double with lilac-mauve flowers, very 
early flowering. There are others even more recent that 
show the steady progress that has been made with these 
flowers. The Lilacs are among the most desirable shrubs 
for American gardens, being perfectly hardy and can be 
had in bloom for about one month in the Spring. They 
are very fast growing in favorable situations, and some 
of the newer varieties make from 4ft. to 5ft. of new 
growth a year. There is certainly nothing more beautiful. 
One cannot hope to name more than a few of the many 
outstanding subjects of the place, and among these must 
be the standard plants of \'iburnum Carlesii, which are 
buddetl at 5 ft. in height on the Wayfaring-tree, \'. La- 
tana. These make very neat, shapely bushes with 
rounded heads, full of flowers, and in this form cannot 
but be useful for a variety of puqjoses, either as border 
plants, or for pots for the florist. Whenever sufficient 
It was noted how freely that fine groiuid covering 
shrub, Pachysandra terminalis, which does so well under 
trees and dry places, was used here. 
The woods are carpeted with Daffodils and types of 
old English Primroses and gold edged Polyanthuses, 
which seemed to flourish admirably. Narcissi, Muscari, 
Scillas, Trilliums and other flowers all demonstrate the 
wild-gardening idea and add to the charm and interest 
of Cedar Hill. 
It was noticeable to what excellent and good uses Mr. 
Havemeyer had put the very considerable selection of 
American native sub-shrubs, such as Azalea \'asevi, the 
beautiful Rhododendron carolinianum, Kalmia glauca, 
Leiophyllum buxifolium, Vaccinium corymbosum, the 
Cowberry, Vaccinium \'itis-Ideas ; the wild Rosemary, 
Andromeda polifolia, Cassandra calyculata and other 
subjects. These were colonized in masses in peaty soil, 
around an ornamental pond and were healthier and 
