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Texas. Swan River Nurseries, Patchogue, L. I., N. Y. 
Bethel Drymon, Royal Palm Nurseries, Oneco, Florida. 
Cdinton Drymon, Royal Palm Nurseries, Oneco, Florida. 
R. E. Drymon, Royal Palm Nurseries, Oneco, Florida. 
William B. Drymon, Royal Palm Nurseries, Oneco, Florida. 
William Flemer, Jr., Private U. S. Expeditionary Force, Ambtil- 
ance Corps, Battalion No. 23, Section No. 23, France. F. & 
F. Nurseries, Springfield, N. J. 
Clarence J. Galligan, 2nd Co., U. S. C. A., Fort Adams, R. I.—The 
Elm City Nursery Co. 
Dean Grauer, Royal Palm Nurseries, Oneco, Florida. 
Ralph Griswold, Royal Palm Nurseries, Oneco, Florida. 
Melvin Head, Royal Palm Nurseries, Oneco, Florida. 
Stout Hill, Royal Palm Nurseries, Oneco, Florida. 
John B. Hinson, Royal Palm Nurseries, Oneco, Florida. 
David L. Hires, Royal Palm Nurseries, Oneco, Florida. 
Edwin Hoyt, 1st Lieutenant of the Field Artillery, Officers’ Re¬ 
serve Corps, now stationed at Camp Grant, Rockford, 111.— 
The Stephen Hoyt’s Sons Co., Inc., New Canaan, Conn. 
Jackson & Perkins Co., of Newark, N. Y., have hung out a ser¬ 
vice flag with four stars in it. The stars represent: 
P. V. Fortmiller, Ordnance Department, Washington. 
Loren G. Olmstead, Sergeant, Camp Gordon, Ga. 
Clarence G. Perkins, Naval Radio School, Newport, R. I. 
Stuart Perkins, Chief Petty Officer, Naval Aeronautic Station, 
Miami, Fla. 
Thomas Jones, Royal Palm Nurseries, Oneco, Florida. 
Henry Edward Kelley, 1st Lieutenant, Company C, 165 Infantry, 
American Expeditionary Force, now in France.—The Stephen 
Hoyt’s Sons Co., Inc., New Canaan, Conn. 
William P. Langdon, Third Officers’ Training Camp, Yaphank, 
N. Y.—The Elm City Nursery Co. 
Lee Lesley, Royal Palm Nurseries, Oneco, Florida. 
Robert J. McCarthy, Sergeant, 101st Machine Gun Battalion, 
American Expeditionary Force now in France.—The Elm 
City Nursery Co. 
Albert F. Meehan, Third Officers’ Training Camp, Yaphank, L. I., 
N. Y. Member of Arm Thomas B. Meehan Co., Dresher, Pa. 
Wade Muldoon, Sergeant, Headquarters Military Police, Camp 
Hancock, Ga.—Thomas Meehan & Sons. 
Roy W. Nixon, Royal Palm Nurseries, Oneco, Florida. 
Mack Overstreet, Royal Palm Nurseries, Oneco, Florida. 
Paul Rathert, Battery F., 128th U. S. F. A., Ft. Sill, Oklahoma, 
New Haven Nurseries, New Haven, Mo. 
Norman A. Reasoner, Signal Corps, Aviation Section, San An¬ 
tonio, Texas. Royal Palm Nurseries, Oneco, Florida. 
Meredith P. Reed, Captain, Sixth Company Section U. S. Officers’ 
Reserve Corps.—Vincennes Nurseries, Vincennes, Indiana. 
Philip Rouse and Julian Rouse, nephews of the Smith Brothers, 
now in the Naval Reserve, with headquarters at Jackson¬ 
ville, Fla. 
Charles Schwentker, Battery F, 128th U. S. F. A., Ft. Sill, Okla¬ 
homa—New Haven Nurseries, New Haven, Mo. 
Charles R. Smith, Aviation Section of the Signal Reserve Corps, 
Aviation Camp, San Antonio, Texas.—Smith Bros. Nursery 
Company, Concord, Ga. 
Lawton V. Smith, nephew of the Smith Brothers, of Concord 
Nurseries, of Concord, Ga., now a lieutenant in the Aviation 
Section of the Army, and stationed near Toronto, Canada. 
Clay M. Stark, Stark Bros. Nurseries & Orchards Co., Louisiana, 
Missouri. American Field Service. Now in France. 
Lloyd C. Stark, Major of the Field Artillery, Fort Sill, Okla. 
Vice-President and a Director of Stark Bros. Nurseries and 
Orchards Co., Louisiana, Mo. President of the National As¬ 
sociation of Nurserymen. 
Otto Sweat, Royal Palm Nurseries, Oneco, Florida. 
George Taylor, Battery “F,” 108th U. S. F. A., Camp Hancock, 
Georgia.—Thomas Meehan & Sons. 
Ray R. Thompson, Royal Palm Nurseries, Oneco, Florida. 
Alfred E. Tull, Royal Palm Nurseries, Oneco, Florida. 
Edmond Wallays, Royal Palm Nurseries, Oneco, Florida. 
W. R. Wedge, Royal Palm Nurseries, Oneco, Florida. 
Stanley V. Wilcox, Co. E. 103rd Engineers, Camp Hancock, 
Augusta, Ga. ’Thomas Meehan & Sons, Germantown, Pa. 
Claud Wilson, Royal Palm Nurseries, Oneco, Florida. 
Luther C. Wilson, Royal Palm Nurseries, Oneco, Florida. 
John T. Wilson, Royal Palm Nurseries, Oneco, Florida. 
William Whitted, Royal Palm Nurseries, Oneco, Florida. 
Notes from Arnold Arboretum 
Lii AGS. The Lilac of old gardens willi its j)iirple or 
white fragrant flowers, hardy, long-lived, easily in¬ 
creased hy shoots fi'oni the roots, resistant to all sorts of 
climate, known to every hoy and girl hrought uj) in the 
country, is in New England what “The May” (Crataegus) 
is in Old)England, the best loved of all shi uhs. It is loved 
hut not respected. No one hesitates to hrcaik down a 
Lilac-hush for the flowers. Without the protection of 
special jiolicemen the Arhoretuin Lilacs would he exter¬ 
minated in a day. It is impossible to jirotect Lilac flowers 
in public parks and city sipian's, and evejy year city 
hawkers in search of them exh'iid thejr de])rcdations fur¬ 
ther into the suburbs; and in Lilac season aniomohihvs 
loaded with stolen mutilated Lilac hranches covered with 
wilted flowers are common objects along all the roads 
leading into Iloston. 
The lirst Lilac to get a place in Euro])ean gai’diMis was 
the j)lant which oidy slightly modifi('d is still to he found 
growing in the neighborhood of many old New England 
1 arm-houses. This plant (Si/rinf/a vultjaris) reacluMl 
western Europ(‘ iii 1597 hy the way of Constantinoj)le and 
Vienna. It was long Ixdievcd to have conn; originally 
Irom Persia and it is only in compai’atively lecind yeais 
that it has been known that this Lilac was a native of tlie 
niountain lorests of Ilulgaria. Plants laiscal at th(‘ Ai- 
horetum irom seeds of the wild liulgarian plaids arc' 
grow ing w ith the other Lilacs in the collection, and it is 
interesting to compare the flowers of the w ild type w ith 
those which cultivators have produci'd in the last half 
(*eidury. Anotlu'r Lilac, the so-calh'd Persian Lilac [S]/- 
rhifja }tersir<i). a native of the region from the (kuicasus 
to Afghanistan, w as known in England as early as 1(558. 
This is a smaller plant than the common Lilac, w ith slen¬ 
der stems, narrow er leavc's, and smalh'r hut vc'ry fragrant 
flowers. The flowers are pale lilac color hut thert is a 
form with nearly while flow'c'rs, and one on which the 
leaves are dec'ply divided (var. J(U‘inuila). Tin' Persian 
Lilac blooms usually tc'ii days latc'i’ than the common 
Lilac and is a heautirul garden plant, hut is probably less 
ofli'ii cultivah'd than it was a ceidury ago. It is of jiar- 
ticular iiderest, howc'vc'r, as one of the jiai'c'ids of tin' first 
hybrid Lilac, the other being Si/rinf/d vidf/aris. This hy¬ 
brid apjiearcd in the botanic (larden at Koin'ii, Erancc', 
early in the nineteenth century and through a mistake'll 
idea, of its origin was nanu'd Siji'inf/a ('/I'nwnsis. It is 
sometinu's called Sip'iiif/a rollioindf/rnsis. This hybrid is 
OIK' of the most valuable of all Lilacs. It grows ipiickly 
to a large size; it is vc'iy hardy and blooms freely every 
yc'ar. In shajie the h'aves n'scmhh' those of the Persian 
Lilac hut are liroadc'r; the flowers, loo, recall those of tin' 
Persian Lilac, hut tln'y ari' largi'r and arc' produced in 
long massive' cliistc'is soinc'limes nc'arly two lec't in length, 
and so heavy that the' sic'ncic'r hranchc's do not well sup¬ 
port them. The flow ers are reddish purple hut there are 
