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white flowers. As a garden plant this is one of the handsomest of the 
Lilacs for its habit is excellent, and it flowers freely every year, the 
flowers remaining in good condition for several days. Unfortunately 
they have a rather disagreeable odor like those of the Privet. Two 
plants now found in some nurseries under the names of 5. Josikaea 
pallida and S. Josikaea rosea are only forms of S. villosa with slightly 
different colored flowers. Plants under these names were cultivated, 
however, in Europe several years before the discovery of S. villosa, 
and if they or other varieties of 5. Josikaea are known to any of the 
readers of these Bulletins the Arboretum will be glad to hear from 
them. 
In the hands of the skilful French gardener L. Henry Syringa villosa 
crossed with Josikaea has produced a remarkable race of hybrids 
to which the general name of S. Henryi has been given. Plants of 
this breed are large, very vigorous, perfectly hardy and grow rapidly. 
The' foliage resembles in a general way that of S. villosa, but the 
flowers are violet-purple or reddish-purple and are produced in great 
clusters twelve or fifteen inches long and broad. One of the hand- 
somest of this race has violet-purple flowers and has been named 
Lutece. The var. eximia has more compact clusters of rose-colored or' 
reddish flowers which after opening become light pink. 
Another of the late-flowering Lilacs, S. Woljii, is a native of Mon- 
golia or northern Korea and is still little known either as a wild plant 
or in gardens. It reached the Arboretum in 1906 from St. Petersburg 
where it had been sent by the Russian traveler and botanist Komarov. 
The foliage resembles that of <S. villosa, but the flowers are produced 
in much larger clusters and are smaller and violet-purple; in color 
they resemble that of the flowers of the hybrid Lilac Lutece but they 
are smaller and in denser clusters than those of that plant. When 
Syringa Woljii is better known it will probably be considered one of 
the handsomest of this group of late-flowering Lilacs. 
With the exception of Syringa Meyeri and S. pinnati folia , all the 
new Lilacs from western China flower late, and several of them have 
been in bloom during the past week. The most interesting of these 
new Lilacs is S. rejiexa, a large shrub with ample dark green leaves 
and long, narrow, compact, drooping clusters of pink flowers which are 
bright red before opening. This Lilac differs from all others in the 
drooping flower-clusters and for this reason will probably become a 
popular garden plant. 
Syringa Julianae has been covered with flowers again this year and 
is a valuable plant in this climate. It is related to S. pubescens and 
has the same shaped flowers with long narrow corolla-tubes, but al- 
though fragrant the flowers are less fragrant than those of that 
species and are produced in shorter clusters. The beauty of the flower- 
cluster is increased by the contrast between the violet-purple color of 
the outer surface of the corolla and the white inner surface of its lobes. 
Syringa tomentella, with which, judging by the plants growing in 
the Arboretum S. Wilsonii is identical, is a tall, fast- growing and per- 
fectly hardy shrub with slender arching stems and open habit. The 
foliage resembles that of S', villosa and the flowers are produced in 
large loose clusters and are of the palest rose color with long and 
slender corolla-tubes. 
