that an immense number of plants is grown in a small area. I do not 
know any nursery in this country where such a large variety of 
plants is grown. I noted among other things good stocks of nearly 
all the new Cotoneasters, which are so hard to get in this country, 
Berberis Wilsonae, Rosa Hugonis and other new and rare plants from 
China which in this country are found usually only in the Arnold 
Arboretum. Along with these were a large number of pine and spruce 
seedHngs and many species, and next to them a collection of over 50 
varieties of Asters. Here, also, were big beds of grafted roses, which 
in that mild climate can be planted directly in the field after being 
grafted in November and December, and which during the cold wea- 
ther are covered with hundreds of bell jars. In another field, nearly 
half an hour's walk away, M. Turbat showed me his roses — 14 acres 
of them, full of flower as late as November. In still another field were 
100 or so varieties of Lilacs and Specimen Evergreen, now rather over- 
grown on account of the lack of demand during the war. This nur- 
sery is typical of the 2'^ large wholesale nurseries of Orleans, and 
besides what they grow themselves they buy many of their specialties 
from nearly 500 smaller growers. The same condition exists in Angers; 
and these two towns supply practically all the young plants grown in 
France. 
I have told you already of how Lemoine stuck to his post during 
the war. His nursery is, as he said, very full of weeds, but so are all 
the nurseries of France, except the Vilmorins. His collection of plants 
is remarkable, including not only many rare shrubs from China and 
his own creations by hybridising these with other species, but in- 
numerable herbaceous plants, which in this country we do not know 
in their improved name varieties — plants Hke Heuchera, Herbaceous 
Clematis, Campanula, Delphiniums and many others. Besides this, 
he has the finest collection of Pelargoniums and Geraniums that I 
have ever seen, as well as many fine Begonias and other greenhouse 
plants. He remarked to me that before the war his work had been 
done by Germans, which would lead one to believe that the Germans 
were trying to learn his methods and take up plant breeding them- 
selves and then boast that it was their discovery, as they have done in 
so many other lines of business. 
Another nursery which would be of great interest to all American 
gardeners is that of Millet et Fils near Paris. His garden stretches 
out behind his house for about 800 feet and has a box-bordered walk 
going down the center, on each side of which an Herbaceous border 
is planted for exhibition, so that it presents a beautiful sweep of color. 
I had a lesson here in French thrift, for I saw an old woman picking 
flowers of HemerocaHs and M. Millet remarked that he was getting 
only 15 centimes a bunch for these and that he would not have over 
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