April 18—We have seen so many borders of wallflowers, pansies and daisies on our dai strolls that it is very satisfactory to be able to record something different. We saw a nice steamy-yellow edging to a border along Route Ferguson today and found that the plant used was a polyanthus. It was pleasing to this bunch-flowered primrose—Primula variabilis—in full flower and as it is a comparatively easy plant to grow from seed, perhaps we shall see more of it. Some of the tulips may like to show ff their brilliant colours in conjunction with one day we hope to give them a chance to do so. We notice that the wistaria is commencing to bloom, most we have seen are Wistaria Chinensis, although a few were undoubtedly W. multijuga, the racemes were very long. The tree was named after Casper Wistar, a onetime Professor in the University of Pennsy mania, who died in 1818. "Tommy" found one lof the most beautiful native-flowering trees along Bubbling Well Road and we discovered that it was named after a Princess of a country much in the news at present. It was Paulownia imperialls and it was named after Princess Paulowna of the Netherlands. This deciduous tree has a most peculiar habit, for flower buds are produced in the autumn and they remain on the tree all the winter. This may be the reason why "our" tree was not so floriferous as Paulownias usually are. The hard frosts of last November must have damaged many of the buds. If we remember correctly, many of these trees are planted in the parks in Paris and there used to be some fine specimens in the French park here; they are probably still there. The tree-like Hibiscus syriacus is now in full growth and making nice green hedges here and there. This Rose of Sharon should not be confused with the herbaceous native hibiscus; we hall report on these later. Poa annual is now full flower and beginning to seed on many lawns. "Tommy" tells me that he does not want the lawn full of this annual grass in the autumn so he is going to get out the lawn mower; he also tells me that in England, free beer is provided for harvesters—Ww.K,.
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