Show ADDED BEAUTY TO GARDENS World Owes Debt to Frenchman Who Improved on the Glory of the Lilac Blossom One of Frances France's war gardeners of 18 71 1870 71 0 won Immortality b by studying his plants Instead of tending his garTen garden gar gar- Ten den merely as a n way to help out with the food supply Like Ilke most war gardeners gardeners gardeners gar gar- he lie did not give his attention exclusively to vegetables but planted afew n a few flowers rs and It was with these that he lie had conspicuous success In 1871 victor Lemoine began his experiments In cross fertilizing different different different differ differ- ent species of 01 lilac Ulac lIe He took up this work to get pet his imis mind away from the I II troubles of ot his imis country for a n German garrison was quartered In his native town Nancy and the time rest of France I except the time doomed provinces of Alsace Alsace- Lorraine was slowly bu buying ing back Its freedom from the s same ne hated pres pres- ence once Lemoine's sight tI nt time was very ery bad so he planned and had his wife wiCe execute That was the origin of the time won wondrous rous group of shrubs known today throughout through through- out the civilized world as French lilacs lilacs with their great trusses of beauteous bloom It Is Lemoine's best- best known work though not his only one lIe He recreated the time mock orange the the the- weigelia the delphinium and a n score of ot other perennials and shrubs |