be spring and autumn gardens, and the best decorations for these will 
be found among hardy trees and shrubs. 
There is a great deal to be learned in the Arboretum by every one 
interested in gardening in the Northern States, and it seems a pity that 
the Arboretum cannot be made more of a household word in this coun- 
try. I wonder how many of the members of all these clubs have ever 
heard of the Arboretum, or have been here even once, or know any- 
thing about its Bulletins? c s> SaRgen1% 
Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University. 
£be pilgrimage 
From all points of the compass, by various means of locomotion, 
processions are wending their way toward the gracious city of Balti- 
more as their Mecca. The bond that unites the moving throng is a great 
love of flowers, varying in different individuals from a delight in rare 
exotics to those who rejoice in the humblest spring blossom by the way 
and to the latter the joy begins as soon as city pavements give way to 
green roadsides studded with May's exquisite gems. 
In New Jersey the woods are still clothed in many shades of tender 
green, with the soft pink of frequent oaks, but further south the leaves 
have taken their rich summer coloring, throwing into relief the pure 
white of dogwood. Masses of pink pinxter flower brighten the shadows 
under the trees. A whiff of delicious fragrance tells of the presence of 
leucothoe, and on the banks of a stream a spicy breath of sweetness pro- 
claims the swamp magnolia. A scarlet tanager flashes against the 
foliage and the liquid notes of the wood thrush add another joy. 
On every side from flowery meadows arise fountains of song, for 
"small fowl maken melodie," indeed, as the larks voice their springtime 
happiness. Lupins cover large patches, blue as the sky above, and here 
and there the delicate lavender blue of the bird's-foot violet carpets the 
bank of the highway. From its ruff of pale green leaves the fragile white 
star flower peeps out and the star grass adds a rare gleam of yellow. 
Every garden has its flowering shrubs heavy with blossoms — 
spirea, mock orange, snowball, weigelia, the deep yellow globe flower, 
the rare old laburnum, showering sunshine, and the fragrant straw- 
berry shrub. 
From another direction, however, the highest note is struck, for 
over the banks and through the woods near Annapolis are quantities of 
gorse, gorgeously golden against the dark green of the old field pines. 
Many years ago an early settler brought from the beloved moors of his 
home land a tiny plant for the new garden, and there it grew and 
thrived and increased, sending its offspring out into the countryside, 
where their descendants brought a special joy to us that lovely day in 
May# Anne MacIlvaine, 
Garden Club of Trenton. 
