we have in commerce in this country the absolutely hardy Japanese 
azalea in colors ranging from rich golden yellow to orange-scarlet, rose 
and coppery-red; and we have also the taller later-blooming azalea of 
the Arboretum. Here in this one instance is a wondrous wealth of 
material to make interesting our plantings. 
The great family of the Philadelphus (syringa or mock orange) 
is nobly represented at the Arboretum, from those earliest flowering ones, 
Boule d' Argent and Manteau d'Ermine, to P. insignis, blooming finely 
when I saw it on June 25th. Many are the names and kinds of this, 
to me, the loveliest of all spring-flowering shrubs. Most of the finer 
hybrids with French names were given us through the patient and sci- 
entific work of the brilliant Victor Lemoine or have come from his son, 
M. Emile Lemoine. Among these are Avalanche, Mont Blanc, Con- 
quete, Rosace, Candelabre, Manteau d'Ermine, Pavilion Blanc, Oeil de 
Pourpre, Bouquet Blanc. Philadelphis insignis, as I have said, is 
very late, P. verrucosus was in bloom with insignis. P. Nepalensis is, 
too, a late variety. 
All who see the Arboretum under Professor Sargent's own aus- 
pices meet Mr. Jackson Dawson, the great rose-hybridizer, and of two 
or three of his rose introductions shown me by himself, I must make 
mention here. The polyanthus rose, Minnie Dawson, is most interesting 
in its marvelous luxuriance of bloom. Its small white double flowers 
mount into great trusses of tiny roses held well above the leaves; beau- 
tiful for cutting it must be and charming as a garden subject. Rosa 
rugosa alba repens has a distinguished white flower of a large sweet 
briar type. Its pure white petals are sufficiently narrow to give it a 
starry look and the well defined ring of brown-topped stamens gives 
much interest to the center of the flower. 
For the Sargent rose I have no fit or adequate words of praise. 
It is a perfect glory of a flower, and my first impression of a great bush 
or plant of it in full bloom is of delight that such a pink exists in single 
roses. There is a warmth in the tone which is missing from other roses 
of this type. It may have had a yellow ancestor, at all events the color 
is most unique in its attractiveness and the great loose clusters of flowers, 
the rich green foliage with the least hint of blue in it, makes the Sargent 
rose a thing to covet, a thing to fitly bear the name it carries. 
The Arnold Arboretum makes me wish I had another life to live. 
In my time I have tried in my own environment to make a few small 
pictures in garden flowers. If I could see twenty vigorous years before 
me I should be tempted to fare forth upon the uncharted sea of ar- 
rangement of these new shrubs and trees. The old firm of Farquhar, 
of Boston, offered for sale for the first time in this country in January, 
1913, many of these rare and new plants and shrubs; they have only 
to become known to become common to our gardens and fine estates. 
And Professor Sargent himself remarks in a recent letter, "The person 
