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The Latest Laundry Lifts 
(Continued'■ from page 54) 
do want it to look as a starched bit of 
linen does. In the same way as starch 
this composition permits the lingerie 
to stand up longer under use. 
The foregoing is just a group of 
ideas in concrete form to add to the 
comfort of laundry days. They can be 
passed on to friends as ideas, even 
ideals, or as practical, concrete gifts. 
All three or any would be acceptable 
to the thinking housekeeper who wants 
101 things done better than a man can 
do one thing well. So all aids in the 
home are worth not only considering , 
but investigating with eye and ear as ; 
well as heart and soul. 
The drawings shown in this article are 
from illustrations supplied by the Scien¬ 
tific Dryer Co., the O. K. Dryer Co., and 
the Poland Laundry Equipment Co. 
The Newer Lilacs 
(Continued, from page 29) 
Here I mention only three, but there 
are many others; and the collecting and 
comparing of such subjects is well worth 
the endeavor of many years of a gar¬ 
dener’s life. It happens that my lilacs 
are placed only 4' apart in the rows 
where they stand; and I am now in 
that painful condition of mind of wish¬ 
ing I could in some way keep them 
back; for such rounds of bloom, such 
fascinating little flower-covered shrubs, 
there can hardly be in any other genus. 
Border Possibilities 
I remember a suggestive sentence of 
Professor Sargent’s, “The person who 
first arranges a fine border of the newer 
shrubs with regard to color and suc¬ 
cession of bloom, will have done a great 
thing for horticulture in America”. How 
simple this would be in lilacs, if one 
only lived near the great Arboretum, or 
that amazingly fine collection at High¬ 
land Park in Rochester shown here, and 
could watch their leafy, flowery prog¬ 
ress through the months, make notes, 
have a trial ground of one’s own suffi¬ 
ciently large, and,—most important of 
all,—start the work when young. 
So strong is habit, especially habit of 
mind, that seeing these lilacs of our 
own, many in bloom at once, set out 
without regard to anything but the few 
feet of space allotted to each, it was 
impossible not to think of them as 
sometime or somewhere properly plant¬ 
ed; planted with a view to contrast of 
color, to contrast of form, to harmony 
in hues, and especially, to see them 
blooming above other spring flowers, 
whose beauty should only accentuate 
their own. 
The pinkish group in these lilacs, for 
those who prefer this color, are Presi¬ 
dent Fallieres, Montaigne, Frau An¬ 
toine Buchner (Buchner in Ridgway is 
“pale rose purple”); a group of deepest 
mauve flowers, Danton, President Poin¬ 
care, Marechale Lannes, Marceau and 
Milton. The contrast in size of floret 
between those of Coerulea and Emile 
Gentil is astonishing. For strong con¬ 
trast in color, I suggest using these pairs 
together: Thunberg, Marechale Lannes; 
Jarry-Desloges, Danton; Marceau, Ma- 
crostachya; Diderot, Jarry-Desloges; 
Fallieres, Gentil; Montaigne, Danton; 
Coerulea, Gilbert and Macrostachya. 
The bluest of my little collection are 
Coerulea superb a, Gilbert, Emile Gentil 
and R. Jarry-Desloges. 
Most of these lilacs are still costly— 
anywhere from $2.50 to $5.00 each. 
These suggestions are made that those 
who covet this beauty for themselves 
can get more interest out of the buying 
of even two or three specimens. It is 
easy in choosing blindly to secure 
monotony, and that, of all things, is 
the pity in securing living subjects. 
Then loss of charm, of education of the 
selective faculty in gardening, is one of 
the greatest of pities. 
Turning now to an even more fas¬ 
cinating side of the lilac, its use with 
other flowers, there is a field which few 
people have explored. One becomes 
desperate here for fresh adjectives. The 
old ones cannot express the feeling of 
freshness of interest in the combining 
of new flowers with old. It is an ex¬ 
perience apart. For instance, below a 
group of the bluer lilacs. Emile Gentil 
and Coerulea superba, two tulips stand 
out beyond others as the ones for the 
place—Bleu Celeste and Ewbank. These 
I have held below the lilacs in bloom 
and know whereof I speak. Late myo- 
sotis—Perfection or Royal Blue—with 
Mertensia virginica is perfection grown 
below Syringa pubescens. On ground 
beneath the lovely clusters of Diderot, 
tulip Bleu Celeste and again the for¬ 
get-me-not. President Fallieres, that 
heavenly lilac, should have as neighbor 
tulip Fairy Queen; and for a picture 
unsurpassed let the gardener place be¬ 
low Jarry-Desloges that early Iris Ger- 
manica, Storm King, or Florentina per¬ 
haps, with loose groups of Tulipa retro- 
flexa, if possible the large form of this 
tulip offered by one or two dealers—a 
very tall sort of palest yellow. Again, 
below Syringa pubescens, iris Mrs. Alan 
Gray and a floor of forget-me-nots is an 
arrangement the mere contemplation of 
which should cause any winter to pass 
quickly. Cavour seems to call for pale 
lavender Darwin tulips near. These are 
very fine contemporaries. Try the small 
flower experiments, I beg of you; and 
bear in mind that splendid sentence of 
Miss Jekyll’s lately written, “There is 
no finality in gardening”. 
Lilacs in America 
When we think of and plan and 
eventually see some of these spring pic¬ 
tures which really can be better done 
in America than elsewhere, then the 
photographs of Miss Jekyll’s Nut Walk, 
with daffodils and primroses will not 
discourage but encourage us; the pic¬ 
tures of her spring garden will serve 
only to show that beauty is not the 
possession of England alone. For au- I 
thorities tell us that America is par 
excellence the climate for the lilac. An 
experienced Dutchman once said that 
Europe could show no such spring spec¬ 
tacle as is to be seen in Mr. Havemey- 
er’s Long Island gardens of lilacs in 
May; and so far as is known, there are 
but two enemies of the lilac in this 
country—wet and the borer. Old trees 
have been seen to droop and fail and 
even die in the Middle West in an 
over-wet spring; but this type of sea¬ 
son is the exception with us. Many a 
time in winter, if the cold seems long, 
the snows too persistent, I walk through 
my lilac rows and the sight of those 
stout green buds, hearty and cheerful 
in the zero weather, is the best promise 
possible of Winter’s end and a spring 
to come. 
