Word: lilacs
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...attempt to find plants suitable for New England, to replace the many varieties killed here by the sovere cold of the past two winters, officials of the Arnold Arboretum are trying out for the first time in New England certain hardy types of lilac, holly, and wild apple imported from the Balkan states of Europe...
...Among the more promising collections obtained by Dr. Anderson are a Boanian holly, the hybrid Fraxinus from the Danube delta, alpine forms of the common lilac...
...galloping lancers of King John Sobieski of Poland. Whoever won it, it was a great victory. Western Europe was saved for Christianity. The Turks never returned, but they left behind them things to enrich the world: coffee to start the first café in Vienna, the first lilac bushes in the west...
...second year in succession the solid gold shield of the Holland Bulb Exporters Association went to Marshall Field for a bulb garden arranged by his able superintendent, George H. Gillies. Flaming tulips lined a green turf path to a stone bench by a mellow brick wall shaded by flowering lilac, rhododendrons, laurel, dogwood...
Largest exhibit of the main floor was the Georgian garden of Florist Scheepers. Here were pink blossoming peach trees, dogwood, lilac and tulips, a brick-lined lily pool, and on the iron trellised porch of a white brick Georgian house with peacock blue blinds, Macaw Toto in his cage. A brilliant example of the art of landscape architecture was not Mr. Scheepers' only contribution to the show. From his greenhouses came two new flowers never before exhibited in the U. S., the Sweet Glad and the Glory...