In the Garden
There is usually one plant that particularly catches the public eye. This year at Chelsea a yellow lilac was in the lead. It is a new break (a sport, I believe, from a white lilac), but its chief claim to fame is in its novelty. One desires a lilac lilac ; and in the same tent for novelties was shown an extremely dark lilac (syringa massena) that was singularly pleasing in hue. A recent visit to some rose experimental plots suggested to me that more would be heard of new varieties of the wild and dwarf Burnet rose, and there among the novelties—and much admired was Frulingsgold, a lovely variety of the lovely wild rose, rosa spinosissima. As for iris, roses, delphiniums, sweet peas and tulips, it is difficult to keep up with the novelties, and for most of us it is best to wait to see whether they are " good doers." How many new roses have failed on this head'•/ -
W. BEACH THOMAS.
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