Show china has established claim to the proud title of mother of gardens the late arnest if wilso n w who ho wa was undoubtedly the world e fore ore most authority on plant in tr eions from roia china and keeper of e the arnold arboretum of Il harvard arvard university remarks that Cl china ilila Is in iced leed the mother of gardens tot if of the countries to which our ear car dene dens are the mott most deeply indebted ehe she hold holds the foremost for emott place there Is I 1 hardly a garden i abit country or europe that in not la in debated to china for or the I 1 lanta lants that em hellish it the forsythia tre ito yu lan ian mag magnolia the peonies peon lex the parents ot of our modern roee roses be they hybrid bf brail tea rambler or many of 0 ithe azaleas 1 and prim roses peaches or orao tinges cei lemon and sanI grapefruit have been brought to us 0 fro china ch alln p 4 abe T the I 1 0 r reached china in 1310 1510 and took back with them to their settlements iett lement in india the sweet orance which was a later in produced trod into portugal air wll wit wn son says as that eo so far if as he bit his been be e a able to disc 0 ver alil this rif was the first plant taken to europe Hii rope from that time to the present era there has been a constant flow ot of new plant introductions from rum file east to europe and Americ aNew new york herald tribune |