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Syringa Henry!, the general name which has been given to the third 
of the hybrid Lilacs, was obtained by the skilful French gardener L, 
Henry by crossing the Hungarian S. Josikaea with narrow leaves and 
small bluish-purple flowers in long narrow clusters with S. villosa with 
its large leaves and ample clusters of flesh-colored flowers. These are 
both late-flowering species as is the hybrid made from them. Plants 
of this hybrid are large, vigorous, perfectly hardy and grow rapidly. 
The leaves resemble those of S. villosa but the flowers are violet-purple 
or reddish purple and arranged in clusters from twelve to fifteen inches 
long and broad. The handsomest perhaps of this race, which has been 
named “Lutece,has deep violet-purple flowers and is one of the most 
beautiful of all Lilacs. ‘'Eximia, ” another of the hybrids, has not 
grown here to such a large size as “Lutece"’ but it is one of the hand¬ 
some late-flowering plants in the collection, with compact clusters of 
rose-colored or reddish flowers which become pink after opening. 
Lemoine has obtained another interesting hybrid Lilac by crossing 
forms of Syringa vulgaris with the violet-flowered form (var. Giraldii) 
of the north China S. affinis. The plants of this parentage grow 
rapidly and are tall, narrow shrubs. Like their Chinese parent they 
bloom early and the flowers are fragrant. The best known of these 
hybrids have been called by Lemoine “Berryer,’’ ‘'Claude Bernard,’’ 
“Lamartine,” “Mirabeau,” “Pascale,” and “Vauban.” Several of 
these have been flowering in the Arboretum during the past ten days 
and promise to be important additions to the collection. Lemoine’s 
latest hybrid Lilac has been obtained by crossing the hybrid “Lutece” 
with the Chinese S. tomentella. Lemoine speaks highly of this plant 
which has not yet reached the Arboretum, 
Late Shad Bushes. The last of these plants to flower in the Arbor¬ 
etum are the American Amelanchier sanguinea and A. amabilis and 
the two old world species A. vulgaris and A. asiatica, which were all 
in good bloom on the 20th of May. A. sanguinea is a slender shrub 
sometimes 6 or 7 feet high and does not spread by stoloniferous stems 
or from colonies. The leaves, which appear before the flowers open, 
are oval to oblong-oval, pale green and often somewhat glaucous, the 
upper ones nearly erect. The large and showy flowers are produced 
in many-flowered, flexuous or drooping racemes sometimes nearly five 
inches in length. The fruit, which ripens in August or September, is 
almost black, covered with a glaucous bloom, sweet, juicy and of a 
pleasant flavor. This beautiful shrub grows in dry, rocky or gravelly 
soil and is widely distributed from eastern, northern and central Maine, 
through Vermont and western Massachusetts to Quebec, Ontario and 
Michigan and south, through New York and along the Appalachian 
Mountains to Alabama. Amelanchier amabilis, which was once consid¬ 
ered a variety of A. sanguinea, differs chiefly from that species in its 
larger and even more beautiful flowers. It is less widely distributed 
than A. sanguinea, having been found only from the neighborhood of 
Cooperstown in Otsego County, New York, in central and eastern New 
York and in Ontario. A handsome plant, it is less beautiful when in 
flower than the hybrid between the two arborescent species, A. cana¬ 
densis and A. laevis, now known as A. grandijlora, which when in 
flower is the most beautiful of the Shad Bushes which grow in the 
