and when unable to look upon the glorious midsummer of her garden, 
she still smiled when its radiance was described to her. So, glad 
and patient, she passed to fields of asphodel. 
Yet: 
"Is it so strange 
If, even in Heaven they yearn 
For the May-time 
And the dreams it used to give?" 
An Endowment Fund 
for the Arnold Arboretum 
An effort is being made to raise an endowment fund for the 
Arnold Arboretum sufficiently large to insure its independence and 
enable it to carry on, in connection with its regular experimental 
work, further scientific research, and also, to continue its successful 
foreign expeditions hitherto largely dependent upon private sub- 
scriptions. The regular routine work of the Arboretum requires 
about $50,000 a year, $20,000 of which is received from invested funds, 
so each year these private subscriptions must meet a deficit of $30,000. 
So far almost $275,000 has been given toward the proposed en- 
dowment. This sum comes largely from Boston but it is obvious 
that the Arboretum has become far too important to rely on local aid 
and that to raise a sufficient amount subscriptions must be secured from 
horticulturists throughout the country. 
The purpose of the Arboretum is to increase the knowledge of 
trees and shrubs. To this end a collection of living plants has been 
made, especially arranged for study and comparison, important in- 
vestigations have been undertaken in its laboratories, and explorations 
made with a view to introducing into American gardens, plants hither- 
to unknown to cultivation. 
This last is an important branch of the Arboretum's work. It has 
made available for our gardens many hundred trees and shrubs 
previously unknown to cultivators. It has introduced from Japan 
Azalea Kaempferi and Azalea Japonica, most beautiful of Asiatic 
azaleas, and many other trees and shrubs there discovered by its 
agents. From Western China it has brought more than a thousand 
trees and shrubs new to cultivation. Among these are seventy-five 
species of new rhododendrons, many conifers, new lilacs and roses of 
great garden promise, as well as the buddleias, and the beautiful 
Chinese lilies, Lilium Regale and Lilium Sargentii. The last ex- 
pedition to Japan brought back a complete set of all varieties of flower- 
ing cherry trees and the Arboretum now grows and propagates them 
