New At the last regular meeting of the season the Garden Club 
Arboretum of Illinois was privileged to hear the earliest public announce- 
ment of a horticultural enterprise of international interest and 
importance — the projected Morton Arboretum. This great 
educational park will be established, developed and endowed 
by Mr. Joy Morton on a three-hundred-acre tract of land lying 
about twenty miles west of Chicago and adjacent to a large 
Forest Preserve. Mr. 0. C. Simonds, who may be called the 
Dean of Landscape-gardening in the middle-w r est, will be the 
active Director in consultation with Professor Charles S. Sargent. 
The extent and wisdom of Mr. Morton's plans will place the 
new Arboretum in the foremost rank of such foundations. 
New Orchid In 1913, Mr. Clement Moore, of Hackensack, N. J., who has 
"Garden for more than twenty years been recognized as one of the best 
Club op orchidologists of the United States and the leading specialist in 
America" this country in Orchid hybridization, crossed a very beautiful 
hybrid, namely Laelia Cattleya Orion, with one of his choicest 
Cattleya aurea (species) plants, and from this crossing a number 
of seedlings were successfully raised. One half of these some 
two years ago came into the possession of Mr. Burrage, and 
these flowered for the first time in the summer of 1921. One of 
these plants had, as is often the case with secondary hybrids, 
rather small bulbs and produced two flowers of much finer form 
and character than any other similar plants. It is what is 
called an albino ; that is, the sepals and petals were a pure 
white, the segments being very wide and the lip white with 
lemon-colored throat. This Orchid so distinguished and so 
exquisite in form and color has been named "Garden Club of 
America. ' ' 
New Lilac The number of flowers named for our members is constantly 
increasing. Not long since Vilmorin of Paris named a prize 
Iris for Mrs. Walter Brewster ; and now M. Lemoine of Nancy, 
France, has honored Mrs. Edward Harding, our authority on 
the Peony, by bestowing her name upon a specially fine new 
Lilac. M. Lemoine greatly enjoyed — as who did not? — Mrs. 
Harding's "Book of the Peony," and the honor he gives to its 
author places her name at once among some of the finest of 
France and England. 
Lilac, Mrs. Edward Harding, which will not be offered for 
sale for several years yet, is very double. In color it is a very 
dark wine-red; in fact, the reddest of any of the double Lilacs. 
At the Spring Exhibition of the Societe Nationale d 'Horti- 
culture de France, May, 1921, it won the prize for the finest 
seedling Lilac not yet in commerce. We are proud of Mrs. 
Harding's work and rejoice in this recognition of it by the great 
Frenchman at Nancy. 
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