carpeted with purple violets. On the Spanish steps many-budded carna- 
tions were only less lovely than pink and mauve and yellow freesias. The 
foothills of the Alps wore arabesques of flowering trees against cushiony 
green. All France smelled of lilacs and England glowed with tulips 
and gay spring flowers. America, from the train window, was a great 
pink orchard, and my own little spring things were blooming to greet me. 
But in Italy it rained, and in France it hailed, and in England it 
did both. Spring was a delight to the eye, but the body shivered. 
America looked well, but felt chilly. 
Since then I have not expected too much of spring. I have looked 
and loved, but I have worn warm clothes and carried an umbrella. I 
have realized that everywhere spring is beautiful but ill-tempered. 
Earlier or later, the tantrums must be endured and forgiven. 
a Malfc Mitb professor Sargent in tbe 
ErnoR) arboretum 
To walk alone in the Arnold Arboretum on a fine June day is to 
experience at every turn a pleasant and a pleasanter sensation. To 
walk in it with Professor Sargent, the great authority on trees and 
shrubs, creator and Curator of the Arboretum, whose published works, 
high knowledge and enthusiasm have long been known throughout the 
world of horticultural science, is much more than this mere vague and 
superficial experience. It is to have one's eyes opened to the individual 
history, interest and beauty of the specimen tree or shrub, its possible 
uses, its value to American landscape gardening; and, more than all, to 
what the amateur gardener all over this land is missing by not making 
constant pilgrimage to the Arboretum. I am frank to say that if I lived 
within a radius of fifty or a hundred miles of Boston, I should en- 
deavor to visit the Arboretum once a week, especially during May and 
June, when a wealth of flowering bough and spray is on every side, 
when one may stroll through paths so lovely with bloom, so fragrant 
with sweet odors that it is a very paradise to the lover and observer of 
trees and shrubs. Here are found the most enchanting studies in 
landscape gardening, tree masses, sky lines, foreground plantings, all 
managed with superb art. And this is the more of an achievement when 
it is recalled that the material used is chosen first for its scientific and 
educational value. 
One could not fancy a nobler sight in growing things than that 
lately seen of pink-blooming laurel backed by the wonderful dark foliage 
of evergreens up Hemlock Hill. And in what masterly fashion the 
Kalmia has been planted "up-along" among the dark conifers, giving the 
whole range of lovely shrubs the effect of having come, of its own will, 
out of the dark wood to the full sun of June. When such a thing as 
this has been accomplished, and is for all to see and to enjoy, one's cup, 
that golden cup of delight in beauty, is full. 
