Show ADD ADDED D B BEAUTY AUTY TO TP GARDE GARDENS S World Owes Debt to Frenchman Who I Improved proved on the Glory of the Lilac Blossom One of Frances France's v V var gardeners of 71 1870 won Immortality by studying his plants Instead of f tending his garden gar gar garden garden den merely as ns a way to help out with tI the e food supply Like most war var garden gar gar- den rs lIe he did not Dot give his attention exclusively to to vegetables but p planted ant d a afew afew afew few flowers and It was with these that he had conspicuous success cess In Ia 1871 V Victor tor began his lIs experiments In cross cross fertilizing different different different differ differ- ent species of ot lilac He lIe took up this work ork to get his mind away from the troubles of his country for a German garrison was quartered In his native town Nancy and the rest of ot France except the doomed pr provinces vInces of Alsace Alsace- Lorraine was slowly buying back I Its freedom from the same hated pres pres- ence LemoIne's sight at that time was very bad so ho planned and had his wife wIt execute V Tha That t was the origin D of ot th the wondrous s group of shrubs known today throughout through through- out the civilized world as ns French lilacs with their great trusses of ot bea beauteous bloom It Is Lemoine's best- best known work though not his only onelie one rie lie lle recreate tl the mock orange the the the delphinium and a score of other perennials and shrubs |