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The Camp Springs Community Garden Project in Camp Springs, Maryland, has a motto that rings true for all community gardens, and in fact, all gardens in general: "Gardening is down to earth." There is something about kneeling in the rich brown earth, with your friends and neighbors and the sweet smells of the garden sur rounding you, that awakens the senses and brings an inner peace to the soul. Community gardeners of all ages reap both intangible and tangible rewards from their gardening projects, including a sense of community, an appreciation for the environment, horticultural therapy, nutritious and less expensive food ... and the list goes on. For more on community gardening, including how to obtain funding and enter contests, turn to page 14. Electric Steinmax Chipper-Shredder • Compare the value • Most powerful motor. Join Society members in San Francisco from August 13 to 17 for our 41st Annual 2.3hp on 110v. 1700 watts. • Chipper does 1'14" branches Meeting_ The theme for this exciting meeting-Beautiful and Bountiful: Horticulture's • Center blade shreds corn Legacy to the Future-certainly reflects the city in which it will be held. San Francisco stalks, prunings , old plants, and its surroundings are filled with lovely and historic gardens and parks, each with newspapers and leaves. • Bulk leaf shredding its own legacy. Pictured above is the conservatory in Golden Gate Park, whose Victo accessory. rian architecture was inspired by the royal greenhouses at England's Kew Gardens. Imported from England For more information on the Society's Annual Meeting, see the ad on page, 13. watering --, Cans Club Becomes Sponsoring Member Regular & The Ohio Association of Garden discount from our regular dues). In Long Reach Models Clubs (OAGC), an organization of addition, the Society will refund to over 474 Ohio garden clubs with the OAGe's treasury 10 percent of This range of 6 nearly 10,000 combined members, is the dues paid by each Associate cans handles every watering job in the greenhouse, garden or . the first of its kind to become a Member. The OAGC may now take home. Good looking, strong green plastic and Sponsoring Member of the American advantage of opportunities for co built to last. Brass-faced rose attachments pro vide gentle rain for seed beds and delicate seed Horticultural Society. By doing so, sponsoring tours, using booth space lings. All priced under $10. the OAGC fulfills one of its stated ob at AHS annual meetings or major Sliding-panel jectives: to coordinate the actions of shows, and using AHS publications its members for the accomplishment for publicizing major activities and compost Bins of its other objectives. This new alli special offers (such as discounts to Garden and kitchen wastes become rich ance will enable both organizations special events). compost in weeks. to promote horticulture in a cohe Programs within the OAGC include ScienMcally designed English bins hold in sive, cooperative way. schools for flower show exhibitors warmth and moisture Members of the OAGC may now and judges; educational clinics; a five for accelerated decomposition yet become Associate Members of AHS at day Nature Study Camp; annual con ventilate correctly. Add materials anytime . a special price of $18 (a 10 percent tests and awards for club program 3 sizes in steel or books, flower shows and civic beauti plastic. fication; a quarterly publication, The Rose Arbors & Garden Path magazine; and the pub American lication of various books, handbooks Carden Arches and leaflets pertaining to gardening With these classic and horticulture. English arches you can lIortictlitllrist build a wide variety The AHS Sponsoring Membership of garden structures VOLUME 65 NUMBER 3 Program is set up as a service to pro for climbing roses, grapes, wisteria, EDITOR, PUBLICATIONS DIRECTOR, Barbara W. Ellis. mote horticulture throughout the clematis, etc. Strong ART DIRECTOR, Rebecca McClimans. ASSOCIATE steel tubing sealed in EDITOR, A Brooke Russell. ASSISTANTS TO THE EDITOR, U.S. by creating a network of horti weatherproof green Manha Palermo, Cindy Weakland. MEMBERSHIP DIRECTOR, cultural societies, garden clubs, plant pla stic. Easily Sa lly Hutcheson. assembled . 8' tall Address all editorial correspondence [0 : The Editor, societies and related organizations. x 5' wide. American Horticulturist. American Horticultural For more information about the Call or write for Society, Box 0105, Mount Vernon, Virginia 22121. 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2 • MARCH 1986 Tipsfor Light Gardeners 1S-page booklet, Guide toJndoor Gar den Lighting with Sylvania Gro-Lux® Researchers at GTE 's Sylvania Light colors. A balance of blue and red Lamps. This booklet includes detailed ing Products Division have been light promotes and maintains healthy information on plant lighting, with studying agricultural and horticul and attractive plants. several charts that explain the differ tural applications of artificial lighting. • Fluorescent grow lamps emit light ences between the various types of They suggest the following tips for chiefly in the red and blue bands, Gro-Lux® lights, as well as informa light gardeners: under which most indoor plants tion on spacing, temperature, ventila • Keep in mind that there are three fl ourish. Incandescent lamps produce tion, propagation, watering and fertil aspects of photosynthesis that are im red and far-red light energy, but little izing. To order a copy, send a portant to successful light garden blue output. Fluorescent lamps tend business-size envelope with 37¢ post ing-photoperiod, light intensity and to be more efficient in the conver age to Public Affairs Department, light quality. sion of electrical energy to light. GTE Lighting Products, Sylvania light • Different plants require different GTE researchers have produced a ing Center, Danvers, MA 01923. photoperiods (the duration of light exposure daily) for maximum per formance. Group plants with similar photoperiod requirements together, and schedule the light exposure with an automatic timer. • For early growth and develop ment, short-day plants generally need 14 to 18 hours of light per day. After the first months of leaf and stem growth, they should be converted to a short-day schedule of 10 to 13 hours. Common short-day plants in clude pOinsettias, chrysanthemums, gardenias and Christmas cactus. Long-day plants such as geraniums, gloxinias and begonias should re ceive the opposite treatment. • Plants require different light in tensities. For low-energy plants, the growing area should have 15 lamp watts per square foot, with the light source 12 inches to 15 inches above plant tops. High-energy plants should !BE:gin yoU'1. watE.'1. gadw todaJj with a 1!4pom catalogUE: have 20 lamp watts or more per fwtu'1.ing pagE: aftE:'1. pagE: of Gwutiful watE.'1. liliH, lotuf>., Gog square foot, with the source 12 inches to 15 inches above the plants. plantf>., (i~, f>.tatua~, and thE: E:HWtialf>. fO'I. kE:E:ping it all wo~ing For germinating seeds and rooting togE:thE:'1.. cuttings, 10 lamp watts per square foot, with lamps six inches to eight JVo pool? {!f!WOf>.E: a (iGE:'1.glaH 0'1. gJ
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MARCH 1-2 ior citizens, $5; Childre f.l 6 to 12, $1; Ad Texas Gardener 2nd Annual Garden vance tickets, $5. Information: Bonni and Home Show Hamilton. (617) 262-8780. Waco Convention Center Waco Texas. In MARCH 9-16 formation: Lisa Renee Barnett, Executive Philadelphia Flower Show Director, Texas Gardener's Garden and Philadelphia Civic Center, 34th and Civic Home Show, PO Box 9005, Waco, TX Center Blvd. Hours: Sundays, 10 a. m. to 6 76714, (817) 772-1270 p.m.; Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. MARCH 1-9 to 9:30 p.m. Admission: Advance tickets, Cincinnati Home and Garden Show $6.25 ; Adults, $7; Children under 12, ter, 1800 Arthur Street at Bloom, Louis $3.50. Information: The Pennsylvania Convention Center. Hours: Saturdays, ville, KY 40217, (502) 637-9737. Horticultural Society, 325 Walnut St. , Phil noon to 10 p. m.; Sundays, noon to 6 adelphia, PA 19106, (215) 62 5-8250. p.m.; Weekdays, 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. Infor MARCH 6-9 mation: Hart Productions, Inc., 11 72 W. <":hicagoland Home and Flower Show MARCH 12-16 Galbraith Rd., Suite 216, Cincinnati , OH O'Hare Expo Center, Rosemont, IL. Washington Flower and Garden 45231, (513) 522-7330. Hours: Thursday, 2 to 10 p.m.; Friday and Show Saturday, 11 a. m. to 10 p. m.; Sunday, 11 Washington Convention Center, 900 MARCH 6-9 a. m. to 6 p.m. Admission: Adults, $5; Chil Ninth Street, NW, Washington, DC. Hours: Metropolitan Louisville Home, dren 6 to 12, $1 (under 6, free). Informa Wednesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to Garden and Flower Show tion: Karen Fishman, 405 N. Wabash, 10 p.m.; Sunday, 10 a. m. to 7 p.m. Infor Kentucky State Fairgrounds, East Wing Plaza Level 3, Chicago, IL 60611. mation: 1]S Productions, 7668-8 Fullerton and East Hall. Hours: Thursday and Fri MARCH 8-16 Rd. , Springfi eld, VA 22 153, (703) day, 6 to 11 p.m.; Saturday, 1 to 11 p.m. ; 569-7141. Sunday, 1 to 9 p.m. Admission: Adults, $3; New England Spring Flower Show Children 6 to 12, $1; Children under 6, Bayside Exposition Center, Boston. MARCH 14-23 free. Information: Home Builders Associ Hours: 10 a. m. to 10 p. m.; Sundays, 10 Pittsburg Home and Garden Show ation of Louisville, Home Building Cen- a. m. to 8 p. m. Admission: Adults, $6; Sen- Pittsburgh Convention Center, Pittsburg,
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Preview : Friday, March 14 Show: Saturday, M arch 15 through Sunday, March 23 Pier 90: Berths 3 & 4 55th Street @ The Hudson River 10 AM-9 PM : Friday, Saturdays & Sundays 10 AM-6 PM : Monday through Thursday General Admission: $6.00 Adults $3 .00 Children $5.00 Advance Sale, 10 or more Preview tickets: Call 212-765-5676 Getting There : Pedestrian crossings @ 49th & 51 st Streets Cor & Taxi romp entrance @ 55th Street, proceed to berths 3 & 4 and rooftop parking 'For informotion, please call: The Horticultural Society of New York 128 West 58th Street New York, N.Y. 10019 212-765-5676
6 • MARCH 1986 Pennsylvania. Information: John De San New Mexico. Information: Casetter Labo MARCH 22-30 tis, Executive Director, 1000 Greentree ratory for Ethnobotanical Studies, Depart Portland Home & Garden Show Rd ., Pittsburg, PA 15220, (412 ) 92 1-1343. ment of Biology, University of New Mex To-Ro Enterprises, Inc., Portland, Oregon. ico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, (505) MARCH 15-16 Information: Bob King, PO Box 25348, 277-3348. Native Plants Preferred. A Portland, OR 97225, (503) 246-8291. Symposium on the Use of Native Plants in American Gardens. MARCH 20-23 MARCH 22-30 Lecture program co-sponsored by tile Central Missouri Home, Lawn, International Atlantic City Flower American Horticultural Society and tile Garden & Recreational Show. Show US National Arboretum. Reservations re quired. Information: Education Depart Hearns Multi-purpose Building, Colum Atl antic City Convention Center Board ment, Attn.: Native Plant Symposium, bia, Missouri. Information: Mr. Charles G. walk, AtlantiC City, New Je rsey. Hours: American Horticultural Society, Box 0105, Page, Rt. 3, Box 12, Gravois Mills, MO Noon to 8 p.m. (Noon to 10 p.m. on Mount Vernon, VA 22121 , (703) 768-5700. 65037, (31 4) 372-2277. March 22, 28 & 29). Admission: Adults, MARCH 15-23 The New York Flower Show: Garden Fantasies The New York Passenger Ship Terminal, Pier 90, 55th Street and me West Side Highway, New York, New York. Hours: Opening Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Monday tilrough Thursday, 10 a. m. to 6 p.m.; Friday th rough Sunday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Admission: Adults, $6; Ad vance sale groups (10 or more), $5; Chil dren under 12, $3. Informatio n: Meryl Suben, Horticultural Society of New York, 128 W. 58th St, New York, NY 10019, (212) 477-7383 MARCH 15-23 Indiana Flower and Patio Show Indiana State Fairgrounds, West Pavilion Bldg., 1202 E. 38th St Hours: Saturdays If you want to answer the ad and Friday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. ; Sundays, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Monday through Thurs above, maybe you should read day, 11 a. m. to 9 p.m. Admission: Adu lts, the one below first. $4; Children 6 to 12 , $1; Children under Intensive class work, regular hands-on field and laboratory 6, free; Adult advance ti c k et~ , $3. Infor experience, plus an extended internship assignment at an area retail mation: Thelma and Ed Schoenberger, operation. That's the kind of training you receive when you enroll in Co-producers, (317) 255-4151 . DuPage Horticultural School's new Retail Nursery & Garden Center MARCH 15-23 Manage ment and Operations program. Builders Home, Flower and You also study everything from business management to Furniture Show merchandising, small fruit trees to landscape design. With that type of experience, getting a job like the one above becomes a Cobo Hall, Detroit, Michigan. Informa whole lot easier. tiOfl: Builders Association of Southeastern Michigan, 20755 Greenfield, # 804, South fie ld, MI 48075, (313) 569-0644. Please send more information on the new Retail Nursery & D Garden Center Management and Operations program. MARCH 15-23 I'm interested in greenhouse growing and production. Please Buffalo Home & Garden Show D send information on yo ur other program, Greenhouse Manage ment and Operations. Buffalo Convention Center, Buffalo, New Name ______York. Information: Paul E. Schweitzer, 527 Statler Bldg. , 107 Delaware Ave. , Buf Address ______falo, NY 14202, (716) 852-2006 City ______State ____ Zip ______Phone (_ ____-L ______MARCH 20 Hi gh School ______Graduation Date ______National Agriculture Day Year Interested in Attending DHS: 86/87 87/88 88/89 89/90 Officially recognized by Congress, the Mail to: DuPage Horticultural School PreSident, and most governors. Informa 1017 West Roosevelt Road tion: The American Association of Nurs West Chi cago, Illinois 60185 AH 3/86 erymen, 1250 1St, NW, Suite 500, Wash ington, DC 20005, (202) 789-2900. DUPAGE HORTICULTURAL MARCH 20-23 SCHOOL ACC fechled School The 9th Annual Ethnobiology Where practice NatIOnal AssooatlOn of Conference makes professionals. hde and Techmcal Schools Un iversity of New Mexico, Albuquerque,
AMERICAN HORTICULTURIST • 7 $6; Children, $3. Information: Interna APRIL 3-6 NOW .• BYMAILI tional Atlantic City Flower Show, 132 EXPO '86: ARK-lA-MISS Home & UNUSUAL, HARD Avon Place, Amityville, NY 11701, (516) Recreational Show TO-FIND FWWER 598-3355. Monroe Civic Center, Gravois Mills, Mis- l ARRANGING SUPPLIES: souri. Information: Page Enterprizes, Inc., Tools, Techniques, 1Hcks APRIL 2-6 Rte. 3, Box 12, Gravois Mills, MO 65037, ofthe Tradel Edmonton Home & Garden Show (314) 370-2277. Agri-ComlExhibition Grounds, Edmonton, 'J~'" Alberta, Canada. Information: Nelson B. APRIL 4-5 Groves, Western Manager, Suite 202-2695 Georgetown Annual Plantation & The ORIGINAL Granville St. , Vancouver, BC V6H 3H4, House Tour FlDWER GATHERER Canada, (604) 736-3331. Information: Wicklow Hall, Rt. 2, Box 190, Georgetown, SC 29440. The patented APRIL 2-30 feature of Primary Blooming Season Walks APRIL 4-6 Hoya Society Annual Meeting this precision Rhododendron Species Foundation, Fed tool is that a eral Way, Washington. Hours: Sundays, 1 The Hotel Tower Place, Atlanta, Georgia. bloom can nCNI Registration: $75. (After March 1 add be picked, cut p.m. to 5 p.m.; Wednesdays, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Admission: Adults, $2; Children un 10%.) Information: (800) 468-7022; in from the stem, Florida, (800) 282-0244. and held in der 12, free; RSF members, free. Informa a single operation! tion: Rhododendron Species Foundation, APRIL 4-6 Use for cutting vines as PO Box 3798, Federal Way, WA 98063, 10th Annual ALCA Student Field well as flCNIers. Made in Switzerland by the (206) 838-4646 (Seattle) or (206) 927- Days .makers of the original Swiss Army Officers' 6960 (Tacoma). Knives. Associated Landscape Contractors of America and Oklahoma State University, 12.95 ••••••••••••••••• Stillwater, Oklahoma. Information: Kelly Postage & handling included; Calif. res add sales tax. Keith, Oklahoma State University, Depart ment of Horticulture and Landscape Ar The Keth Company Upcoming chitecture, 360 Ag Hall, Stillwater, OH p.D. Box 645 74078. Corona del Mar, CA 92625 AHSEvents APRIL 4,11 THE CATALOG - 1.00 Charleston House & Garden Tours The following Society-sponsored events have Garden Club of Charleston, Charleston, been scheduled. Unless otherwise noted, all South Carolina. Information: PO Box events will take place at the Society's head 2771 , Charleston, SC 29401, (803) quarters, River Farm, which is located at 7931 ,,£!~~·t6at"· East Boulevard Drive in Alexandria, Virginia. 577-3113. For more information on any of these events, APRIL 5 5U1'-ENTRY WAY 0 FOYER please write or call the. Society. Landscaping With Wildflowers Symposium GREENHOUSE 0 WINDBREAK March 15-16, 1986 SPA/HOT TUB/LEISURE ROOM Wildflower Symposium New England Wild Flower Society and For more information, call or write the Bentley College, Waltham, Massachusetts. Society. Hours: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Pre-registration: Members, $45; Non-members, $50. Infor May 9,1986 mation: Frances Clark, Education Direc Spring Open House tor, New England Wild Flower Society, Hours: 11 a.m. to 4 p.rn. Admission: AHS mem Garden in the Woods, Hemenway Rd., bers $2, non-members $3. Framingham, MA 01701, (611) 877-7630 June 21, 1986 or 237-4924. DaylilylLily Day Admission: AHS members $1, non-members APRIL 5 $2. Candlelight House & Garden Tour August 13-18, 1986 Women of St. Michael's Episcopal AHS Annual Meeting Church, Charleston, South Carolina. In San Francisco, California. formation: 14 St. Michael's Alley, Charles NEW! MULTI-PURPOSE ROOM September 6,1986 ton, SC 29401. ADDS LIGHT, HEAT & SPACE. Dahlia Day APRIL 5-6 D Bronze aluminum frame D Shatter-resistant AHS members $1, non-members $2. 1986 Spring Garden Show Plexi-DR ® D No foundations required DEasy 4-5 hour assembly D Optional screen package October 5, 1986 Louisiana Cooperative Extension Service converts your Sun-Porch'· to a Florida Room. Autumn Festival and The Metro Area Horticultural Com Introductory Sale Includes Hours: 11 a.rn. to 4 p.rn. Admission: AHS mem mittee, Delgado College Cafetorium, Na ROOF VENT & DOOR SCREEN bers $2, non-members $3. varre Ave., New Orleans, Louisianna. Keeps Your Sun-Porch'M CoolIn Summer December 13, 1986 Hours: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Admission: free. Chrl$tmas Open House Information: Louisianna Cooperative Ex Send $2 for Color Catalogues, Prices, Hours: 10 a.m. to 4 p.rn. SENT FIRST CLASS MAIL. tension Service, Louisianna State Univer Dealer Inquiries Welcome May 13-17, 1987 sity Agricultural Center, No.7, Bamboo VEGETABLE FACTORY, INC. AHS Annual Meeting Rd., New Oreleans, LA 70124, (504) P.O. Box 2235, Dept. AH-86 New York, New York 486-4054. New York, NY 10163
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ENSURE Immediate shipment from our own large Maryland inventory AUTHENTICITY Call or write for more information SPECIFY 16 - page catalogue $1 .00 MADE IN ENGLAND Country Casual - CAH 4' Windermere 17317 Germantown Road, Germantown,. Md . 20874-2999 19" Sq. Grantham Timber Tub (301) 540-0040/ Metro D.C. #dS-3434 APRIL 6·9 APRIL 21 1986 Williamsburg Garden Horticultural Therapy: New Native Plants Symposium Oppo~tiesThrough The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Volunteerism PreferrecC Williamsburg, Virginia. Registration: $130. The Garden Center of Greater Cleveland, r Information: Mrs. Trudy Moyles, Forums Cleveland, Ohio. (Sponsored by The New A SYMPOSIUM ON THE USE OF NATIVE AMERICAN PLANTS Registrar, Colonial Williamsburg Founda York Botanical Garden.) Hours: 9 a.m. to IN AMERICAN GARDENS tion, PO Box C, Williamsburg, VA 23187 .. 5 p.m. Registration: Non-member (NYBG), $50; Member, $45. Information: APRIL 6·10 Cindee]. Howard, Administrator of Adult Savannah Tour of Homes & Gardtms Programs, The New York Botanical Gar MARCH 15 & 16, 1986 Historic Savannah Foundation and Christ den, Bronx, NY 10458, (212) 220-8743 9:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Church, Savannah, Georgia. Information: National Wildlife Federation PO Box 1733, Savannah, GA 31402, (912) APRIL 26·MAY 4 8925 Leesburg Pike, Vienna, VA 233-7787. Maryland House & Garden Pilgrimage APRIL 11·13 AdmiSSion: $10 per tour; single house, Spring Garden & Landscape Show $3; Group rates (40 or more), 20% dis To-Ro Enterprises, Inc., Portland, Oregon. count. Information: Maryland House & Information: Gene O'Loughlin, PO Box Garden Pilgrimage, 1105-A Providence Sponsored by 25348, Portland, OR 97225, (503) 246- Rd., Towson, MD 21204, (301) 821-6933 The American Horticultural Society 8291 or 292-5540. The U.S. National Arboretum MAY 7·28 The National Wildlife Federation APRIL 16·20 Late Blooming Season Walks In Cooperatwn with San Francisco Landscape Garden Friends ofthe National Arboretum Show Rhododendron Species Foundation. See National Capital Area Federation April 2-30. of Garden Clubs Friends of Recreation and Parks, Mclaren Lodge, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, Virginia Wildflower Preservation Society MAY 11 Practical approaches to wQrking California. Hours: 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Ad American Horticultural Society with native plants will be offered mission: Adults, $5; Children under 13, Spring Open House. free; Group rate (prior arrangement, by experts in the native plant field. River Farm, 7931 E. Boulevard Drive, Al Learn how to: weekdays), $3.50. Information: Liz Mur ray, (415) 221-1310. exandria, Virginia. Hours: 11 a.m. to 4 -design with native plants, p.m. Admission: Members, $2; Non-mem flowers, trees, and shrubs bers, $3; Children under 12, free. Infor -blend wildflowers and grasses APRIL 18-21 Suburban, New York Home & mation: American Horticultural SOciety, -establish a successful meadow Garden Show Education Dept., PO Box 0105 , Mt. Ver garden non, VA 22121 , (703) 768-5700. -buy, conserve, and propagate Buffalo Convention Center, Suffern, New native plants York. Information: Paul E. Schweitzer, 527 Statler Bldg. , 107 Delaware Ave., Buf MAY 16·18 Conference-Plant Conservation falo, NY 14202, (716) 852-2006. Strategies: Options for the Future REGISTRATION APRIL 19-20 The Holden Arboretum and Lakeland Name(s) ______Wildflower Conference Community College, Mentor, Ohio. (Sponsored by The Center for Plant Con Affiliation California Garden Clubs, Inc. , Sonora, California. Reservations: $50 (daily fees servation, Boston, Massachusetts.) Infor Ad~ess~~-~~~----- proportionately lower). Information: Mrs. mation: Education Department, The Hol Street or Box Number Roland Easton, 289 Southgate Drive, Son den Arboretum, 9500 Sperry Rd. , Mentor, City State Zip ora, CA 95370. OH 44060 (216) 946-4400.
Tel.: Home C-) ______APRIL 19-27 MAY 16-18 Second Symposium on Old Roses Business C-) ______Historic Garden Week in Virginia The Garden Club of Virginia. Informa University of California Botanical Garden, ONE-DAY: 0 Saturday, March 15 tion: Kent-Valentine House, 12 East Berkeley, California. Information: Old OR: 0 Sunday, March 16 Franklin St., Richmond, VA 23219, (804) Rose Symposium, UC Botanical Garden, o $55 Non-Member 644-7776. Centennial Dr., Berkeley, CA 94720. o $45 Member (cooperating organizations) 0$30 Student with proof of full time status 0 $6 Box lunch •• 0 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • $90 ...... TWO DAYS: 0 Non-Member ...... o $80 Member 0 $50 Student ,; ...... 0$12 Box lunches both days ...... Member of: 0 AHS 0 FONA ...... o NWF 0 VWPS 0 N.C.A.F.G.C...... Please make check payable to: . . American Horticultural Society and ...... return with your registration form to: Native Plants Preferred, AHS, P.O. Box 0105, Mount Vernon, VA 22121
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China) Horticulture anD Histor~ April 9·29, 1986 Share with us an unforgettable three weeks studying the flora, art and history of China. Under the tutelage of Andrew Lauener; an authority on Chinese plants and recently retired from the Royal Botanic Garden of Edinburgh, and of Dr. William Wu, a Chinese scholar of art history and archaeology, born in Shanghai and now living in San Francisco, we will travel from Hong Kong to Kunming, Xian, Shanghai and Beijing. Richard Hutton, president of Conard-Pyle/Star Roses and current board member of the AHS will also accompany our group.
Dutch Treat) Hollal1D at Tulip Time April 27·May 11, 1986 This year's trip is a variation on last year's highly acclaimed tour following paths to the country's thriving horticultural centers. We spend the first week in Amsterdam visiting the gardens of Mien Ruys, the Palais Het Loo, Haarlem and more. The second week we cruise Holland's canals aboard the luxurious hotel barge ~uliana : Our tour leader will be Mary Mattison van Schaik. Mrs. van Schaik, now a Vermonter, lived in Holland for 18 years and has owned a bulb importing business for 30 years. A member of the AHS, she is a popular lecturer and has been a Regional Director of the American Daffodil Society.
ScotlanD) unspoileD anD unknown May 25·June 8, 1986 Scotland is unquestionably romantic in legend and history and the landscape beautiful and unspoiled. We will visit private homes and gardens in the Western Highlands of Argyll, renowned for its rhododendrons and flowering shrubs. lhveling through remote and breathtaking scenery, we will tour the Isle of Gigha, Crarae Woodland Gardens, Inverewe and Inverness. We will be entertained in private homes and castle gardens. In Edinburgh we have the opportunity to explore the city at our own pace and to be entertained by some of Scotland's most enthusiastic and privileged horticulturalists. We are again fortunate to have Everitt Miller; former director of Longwood Gardens, as our leader.
In Search of GertrUDe Je~ll July 24·August 7, 1986 Our search for the gardens of Gertrude Jekyll will take us to the English countryside to visit the many homes and gardens that speak to the genius of this outstanding gardener and her remarkable partnership with Sir Edwin Lutyens. Throughout our tour we will meet with English authors, landscape architects and horticulturalists who will share with us their knowledge and affection for the work of Gertrude Jekyll. Our tour leader; Mac Griswold, is a garden writer and historian presently working on a book for New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art about the garden images in their own collection.
Nantucket ana Martba'S viJ1e~ara September 14·21,1986 This fall the island gardens of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard will be the focus of a special trip co-sponsored by the New England Wild Flower Society and the AHS. Our visit will concentrate on the natural flora of the islands and the unique qualities resulting from their isolation and unusual climatic conditions. We will be guided by well-known New Eng land botanists, and our tour leader will be Polly Pierce, President of the New England Wild Flower Society.
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loomy and somewhat melan To those coming out of school who cholic, my last day as the lack practical experience in their GAmerican Horticultural Soci field of interest, as I did, I would ety's graduate intern started off strongly recommend that they use matching my emotions perfectly. such an internship to fill that void. Every inch of River Farm conjured (They should hope to be as lucky as up memories of the past four I have been!) months: the beauty of the grounds in Now the gloom has vanished from autumn and winter, the challenges the sky, and my spirits have bright presented by new lessons to be ened as well. I am still sad to leave, learned and, most of all, the support and AHS will stay in my mind as a ive and friendly staff I had the good fond memory, but now it is time to fortune to work with. The staff al make good use of my experience. I lowed me to take on many responsi must forge onward, hoping the Soci 40th Annual bilities (something unusual for a re ety gained as much from my stay as I cent college graduate), and I learned did. -Marjorie Riemer Williamsburg a good deal about several aspects of Heinz Graduate Intern the Society. It was a very educational Garden and enjoyable experience; the Symposium thought of it being over saddened me. Although I was born and raised in Plants Wanted Berkeley, California, I decided to go April 6-9, 1986 to college in the East. I graduated Members who are growing or who from Cornell University in June 1985, have access to any of the plants in Some of the world's great with a Bachelor of Science degree in this month's column are invited to gardens, as well as Colonial Floriculture and Ornamental Horti help their fellow members locate Williamsburg's smaller, more per culture. There are a number of seed, plants or cuttings of their sonal gardens, will be featured at things one can do with such a de "Plants Wanted" by writing directly to this year's symposium. Noted gree, including research, retail sales, the addresses listed below. experts will talk on design, peren propagation and public horticulture. Please send your "plants Wanted" nials, garden amenities, flower Prior to my internship, I was quite lists, including genus, species, com arranging, and the role of the gar lost in this myriad of options. I knew mon name and a brief description, to den center and nursery. "Plants Wanted" in care of the Soci John B.E. Simmons, curator I was people-oriented, so public hor of England's Royal Botanic Gar ticulture sounded quite appealing. A ety. Please type or print neatly. We dens at Kew, will bejoined by other professor suggested I try an intern will publish them on a space-avail speakers including Ernesta D. ship with an organization like AHS , able basis after checking for sources Ballard, Frederick McCourty, to see if public horticulture was in the Society's ,catalogue file. Pamela Harper, and Susan Frey. "right" for me. • Crinodendron patagua (also Tours, behind-the-scenes The experience I gleaned from my listed as C. dependens and Tricuspi trips, clinics, fllms, and other activi four-month internship, sponsored by daria dependens), a flowering shrub ties make a rich and varied the Heinz Foundation, was invalu or small tree that is a native of Chile. program for the 40th annual able. It enabled me to set more defi Grows to 45 feet or more and bears Garden Symposium at Colonial nite career goals and provided me white, waxy flowers. Would like the Williams burg. with many of the skills I will need to yellow-flowered, more tender form, reach these goals. I was an active if possible. Leaves are two inches ~------1 partiCipant in the workings of the For information, mail this coupon to: long by one inch wide, generally ob Garden Symposium Registrar American Horticultural Society from tuse, and shallowly and closely The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation late summer through early winter. I toothed. Mr. R. A. Mackay-James, P.O. Box C, Williamsburg, VA 23187 wrote many of the Gardener's Infor Box 1028,900 Glencruitten Ave. , Or call 1-804-229-1000 mation Service letters, handled many Lake Alfred, FL 33850. Name ______of the Plants Wanted requests, helped • Native South African trees and Address ______coordinate many of the local events, shrubs-both useful and unusual City ______State __ was very involved in the 1986 Seed from the drier parts of the region Program and worked on the that are grown in the U. S. Gordon ~p------grounds. I matured quite a bit as D. Gibson, 2640 Loma Vista Drive, well. I now know what adults really Escondido, CA 92025. ~~ mean when they talk about budget • Salix 'Prairie Cascade', a cultivar i,ng and commuting. Having been ex of willow developed in Manitoba. posed to so much, I am now better William Randall, Box 104, Dickey, ND L______.. ,,~~ J able to find a direction for my life. 58431. 12 • MARCH 1986 BOUN tb~
San Francisco, "The the beautiful, old Roth Golden Gate City," pro Estate with its lovely for vides a perfect setting for mal English gardens in the 41st Annual Meeting Woodside. Visit several of the American Horticul gardens by Tommy tural Society as we focus Church, one of the great on the influence of ori est garden-makers of the ental gardens, plant con century. Observe how the servation, and edible originator of the Califor landscaping. nia living garden incor Often referred to as porated both beauty and "the gateway to the Ori a place for everyday ac ent," San Francisco is tivities into one garden the "most Asian of occi area. dental cities." You will Come to San Fran delight in the beauty of cisco! Join Society mem its oriental gardens as bers and other meeting we study the nature and participants as we ex significance of oriental plore the "Beautiful and gardening and its influ Bountiful: Horticulture's ence on American horti Legacy to the Future." culture. A visit to the Japanese Tea Garden in the Golden Gate Park, a Please send me special advance registration information for the botanical treasure, will Society's 1986 Annual Meeting in offer one of the most au San Francisco, California. thentic examples of Japa N~E ______nese landscape artistry outside of Japan. Tour the Demonstra Western Plants for Amer ADDRESS ______tion Gardens of Sunset Explore with us the ican Gardens" as well as CITY ______joys and practical aspects magazine, magnificent what plant conservation of edible landscaping, private gardens open only efforts are being made STATE ZIP ____ which allows one to en to Meeting participants, from both a world per joy both the beauty and and the 70-acre Strybing spective and a national MAIL TO: Annual Meeting, American Horticultural Society, the bounty of Arboretum. perspective. P.O. Box 0105, Mount Vernon, VA horticulture. Learn "What's New in Take a trip to Filoli, 22121. Community Gardens: Helping People Help Themselves
This "special population" of senior citizens tends a garden on a New Hampshire site that once supported a World War II Victory Garden.
ommunity gardens are grow Funding--Contests and apeutic environment for over 50 ing-not just tomatoes, beans, Grants handicapped adults and youths and C peppers, squash and corn to create a research and demonstra they are sprouting more of their own Surprisingly, community gardening tion site for community residents to kind. Perpetuated by enthusiasm, contests and grants, sponsored or visit. " Twenty-three different vegeta dedication and hard work, such gar supported by gardening associations bles are grown within the garden's dens can now be found from sea to and corporations, have provided sub 30,000 square feet. shining sea in this country. stantial sums of money, equipment Fort Mason Community Garden, According to the National Garden and supplies to exceptional commu winner of the ACGNGLAD large sites ing Association's Special Report on nity gardening projects. category, has been in operation in Community Gardening, gardening In 1985, over 620 community gar San Francisco for the past six years, maintained its rank as the most pop den groups from 45 states competed and is cared for by 180 individuals. ular outdoor leisure activity in 1984, for a total of $25,000 in cash prizes The 67,OOO-square-foot garden is surpassing jogging, swimming, tenniS, in the National Community Garden found on land owned by the National golf and fishing. Forty percent (an es ing Contest, co-sponsored (for the Park Service, and produces a variety timated 34 million) of all U.S. house last three years) by the American of vegetables including indigenous holds had vegetable gardens in 1984, Community Gardening Association California plants. These gardeners and an estimated one million house (ACGA) and GLAD Wrap and Bags. As meet four times a year to hold har holds participated in communiI)' gar Steve Brachman, president of ACGA vest festivals and conduct some fund dening projects. Participants listed commented, "Cash prizes go a very raising activities. better tasting and more nutritious long way toward helping community Pleasant Village Community Gar food, as well as therapy, social inter groups attain their goals, buy necessi den in New York, New York was the action and family activity as reasons ties and continue their operations." 1985 national winner for the small for getting involved in community Top prize money of $1,000 was sites category. In starting this garden, gardens. Such gardens also generate awarded in 1985 to winners in four neighbors in East Harlem gathered pride and a sense of accomplishment categories: "new," "large," "small " together to transform a 9,800 square for participants. Community garden and "special populations." foot lot covered with garbage and ers bridge the generation gap, break New site category winner Garden debris into what they call an "oasis" down social, economic and racial ing Opportunities, Inc., from Green that generates pride and hope barriers, beautify neighborhoods ville, Kentucky was established to throughout their neighborhood. The and help individuals overcome "create an efficient and enjoyable garden is located on a vacant lot handicaps. community garden, to provide a ther- owned by the city of New York.
14 • MARCH 1986 The national winner in the special populations category is 35,200- square-foot Hampton Victory Garden in Hampton, New Hampshire. Lo cated on a field that was once the site of a World War II victory garden, this garden provides a workplace and recreation site for over 45 senior citi zens who grow food for themselves and others in need. According to statistics from the 1984 contest, 66 percent of 420 com munity gardens entering the contest were located in urban areas. Over half of the garden groups shared some of their produce with others, and produce grown on 94 percent of the 420 sites was used to feed families. Interest in entering community gardening contests appears to be in creasing along with the number of gardens. George Vestal, vice presi dent and general manager of GLAD Wrap and Bags noted: "There's no doubt we had a bumper crop of en trants this year (1985)-27 percent more ... than last year." And accord ing to Danielle Freda, Public Rela tions person for the contest, the number of entrants for the 1986 con test will jump to 1,000, if inquiries thus far are any indication. Another supp,orter of community gardening, the National Gardening Association will award grants this February to assist in program devel opment for new and already estab lished gardens. For the fifth consecu tive year, seventy-five youth and school groups and seventy-five senior citizens' groups and organizations serving the disabled will be selected to receive awards. Grants packages valued at over $500 each contain seeds, tools, gardening supplies, pro gramming information and gardening literature, as well as memberships in the National Gardening Association. According to Larry Sommers, the NGA's National Director of Commu nity Gardening Programs, packages are geared toward their recipients; for example, seeds of easy-to-grow plants and short-handled tools are provided for younger gardeners (ages six to 12) and indoor, con tainer-grown plants are given to the elderly or disabled. New to the program this year will be a "networking newsletter" that will provide information on winning Established community gardens such as this San Francisco project can support large gardens of past years. Gardeners will numbers of people; 180 individuals tend this 67,000-square-foot site.
AMERICAN HORTICULTURIST. 15 be encouraged to swap helpful hints regarding the health and mainte nance of their community gardens. A color slide show, featuring winning gardens from the past four years, is also avail able this year. Applications for the Garden Grants Program have been received from all across the country in the past, with 48 states represented. Evaluation of the applications is based on four cri teria: need and appropriateness, community support, leadership and programming (ie., what kind of "ex tra-curricular" activities do the gar deners sponsor or support). After grants are made, the NGA checks on the garden later in the season. Some equipment in the package is held back and distributed at the point in the growing season when it is needed, and evaluations are made at the end of each year to insure the garden is an ongoing venture that will not die out. As of this writing, the NGA had re ceived over 1,500 inquiries and 500 completed applications for this year's grants. Information on next year's program will be available late this spring. Only groups of 15 gardeners or more that have not received a Na tional Gardening Association Grant in the past may compete for this award.
"Before the Facr' Funding Support for community gardens also can come "before the fact, " as evidenced by the Camp Springs Community Gardening Project in Camp Springs, Maryland. The Camp Springs Presbyterian Church has re cently set up an endowment fund to Senior citizens share their gardening experience with youths in this Washington, D.C., garden, co-sponsored by the Camp Springs Community Gardening Fund and the Man help less fortunate people raise gar dala United Ministries. dens for their own table and canning use. The project's leaders also are so locate garden plots, acquire or bor fourteen additional self-help gardens, liCiting requests from colleges inter row tillers and obtain success which were maintained by individual ested in establishing programs for oriented gardening and canning ad families. students to raise their own garden vice from experts. The Camp Springs Community produce to defray college expenses; The Camp Springs Community Garden Project grew, like most from churches that would like to Gardening Fund supports two family mighty oaks, from a little acorn. The produce garden kits for elderly or gardens in the Camp Springs area. It project began as a small, local effort, disabled people who are unable to also co-sponsored an inner-city, inter with church members collecting gar care for an outside garden plot; and generational community garden proj den produce for sale and distribution from churches, colleges or other or ect in Washington, D.C. , at which to local families and organizations ganizations who need "seed" money senior citizens taught young people whose needs were identified and to start their own endowed garden how to clear vacant lots and produce verified by local ministers, rabbis, fund. In addition, the project aids in fruits and vegetables for their own priests and chaplains. Cash proceeds dividuals and families by proViding use. This latter project, sponsored by eventually were split, with 25 percent hand tools, fertilizer, seeds, gas, oil, the Mandala United Ministries under going to the endowment fund, and insecticides and canning supplies. the leadership of the Reverend the remaining 75 percent divided be When possible, the project helps to Mildred Drinkard, expanded into tween three charitable community
16 • MARCH 1986 organizations. governor Harry Hughes, requesting for the handicapped, to name a few. The endowment fund also receives that they consider creating an en Why not start a community garden money from individual gifts. Most dowment fund similar to that of in your neighborhood, and begin gifts range from $10 to $50, although Camp Springs, or that they consider reaping these rewards for yourself? substantial contributions of up to establishing community gardens on For more information on (and inspi $2 ,000 have been made. Approxi government property as an example rati on for) starting a garden endow mately $1,000 in operating funds is to others. As of the summer of 1985, ment fund-or merely a garden- in available for direct use at this time. only Governor Hughes had taken your community, contact Charles Nel Spinoffs of the Camp Springs proj concrete steps toward answering the son, coordinator, or the Rev. John ect already are evident. Using Camp Camp Springs challenge. Hughes McFayden, Camp Springs Presbyter Springs as a model, the National Cap asked Wayne Cawley, Secretary of ian Church, 4401 Brinkley Road, itol Presbytery in Washington, D.C. , Maryland's Department of Agricul Camp Springs, MD 20748, (301 ) 449- has started an endowment fund for ture, to review the feasibility of such 7686. the creation of a National Capitol a project at d1e state level. And if your new community gar Community Garden. Calvin Dietrick, The National Community Garden den project gets off the ground, be coordinator of the Camp Springs ing Association's Special Report on sure to apply for a garden grant from program, says the church has hopes Community Gardening indicates that the National Gardening Association. of initiating similar programs about one out of four non-gardening For more information, contact the overseas. households (an estimated 12 million) Nati onal Gardening Association, Gar Leaders of the Camp Springs effort woul d be interested in becoming in den Grants Program '87, 180 Flynn also have taken steps to spread the volved in a community gardening ef Ave nue, Burlington, VT 05401 To en word on community gardens to high fo rt if one existed nearby. About ter the ACGNGLAD Nati onal Commu places. Their overall goal is to pro three out of four of these households nity Gardening Contest this year, vide a model community gardening are in urban areas. The benefits of write to the American Community program. In the true spirit of the community gardens to such house Ga rdening Associati on, ACGNGLAD torchbearer (the title of the Camp holds are well known and numerous: Contest, P.O. Box 93 147, Milwaukee, Springs United Presbyterian Church more nutritious and better tasting WI 53202, or call (414) 224-4869. newsletter), Dietrick sent letters to food at lower prices, neighborhood (Deadline is June 1; May 1 for the President Reagan, Alabama governor beautification, environmental aware southern region. ) George C. Wallace, and Maryland ness, social interaction and therapy - A. Brooke Russell
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COMPUTERSOFrWARE LANDSCAPE PLANT SELECTION PACKAGES fo r FUCHSIAS Also available through: Smith & Hawken, Van Bourgondien, Brookstone (Plantifreeze), Gardener's IBM PC and compatibles. Library of over 2,500 Over 50 heat- resistant varieties. 10 rooted cut Eden, Me Fayden Seed (Canada) catalogs and the plants. Long SASE for lite rature. PLANT DATA tings for $10.4 5. 10 starter plants fo r $19.95. Cat finest horticultural nurseries. BASES, PO Box 142, Syracuse, NY 13208-0142. alog 40¢. FUCHSIAS, Rte. 14, Cookeville, TN 38501. DEALER INQUIRIES INVITED L~~ ~~~~!'!~~~~' .-J AMERICAN HORTICULTIJRIST • 19 Rock Garden. Responsibilities: Care, cultivation, March 1-2. 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Send resume and letters of rec 495 GARDEN ORNAMENTS ommendations to: Direaor of Personnel Services ERKINS-Since 1910 importer of finest lead, iron, NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN Bronx NY INDOOR-OUmOOR GARDENING terra cotta and teak garden ornaments. Send $4.00 10458. Equal Opportunity Employe~ MIF. ' SUPPLIES for catalogue. ERKINS STUDIOS, 604 Thames Grounds foreman needed for 1,200 acre garden "FREE CATALOGUE" ... "LOWEST PRlCES-TOP Street, Newport, Rl 02840. Dealer inquiries wel in Pawling, NY. Good salary, fu ll benefits, hous QUALITY SUPPLIES" ... Plastic pots, hanging bas- come. ing. Duties include maintenance of plantings, or kets, peat pots, etc . ... 2 Stamps ... Postage. ganization and direction of large grounds and PLANT COLLECTIBLES, 103E Kenview Ave., Buf GARDENING construction crew. Starting date: May 1, 1986. falo, NY 14217. Grow beautiful plants, vegetables. Easy no soil Please reply to DAVID RATHBUN, PO BOX M, FREE GROWING SUPPLIES CATALOG. Wholesale Hydroponics. 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Information on heating, cooling, Fuchsias. One Thousand cultivars listed. 40th an 4 for $7.50. List 25¢. EDNA WELSH , Rte 3, Box watering, lighting and pest control. 270 pages, niversary catalog $2.00. MERRY GARDENS , PO 1700, Madison, FL 32340. 209 ill ustrations. Send $21.00 postpaid to Box 595> Camden, ME 04843. HALCYON PRESS OF ITHACA, 111 Halcyon Hill HERB-GROUND COVER-ROCKERY KOI Road, Ithaca, NY 14850. HERBS , SUPER-HARDY GROUND COVER, ROCK Finest Quality Japanese Koi , 3" to 28", $15.00 to GREENHOUE EQUIPMENT ERY. Large selection uncommonly healthy plants, $1,000.00 each. Philadelphia area. Call: Week days: (215) 563-3336; Evenings/weekends: (215) FREE CATALOG-Save on equipment, pots, fl ats, reasonable. Catalog very informative on creating 667-7340. baskets, soils, fertilizers. Send 22¢ stamp for post ground cover gardens, culinary, medicinal herb age. GROW-N-ENERGY, PO Box 508A, Baldwin uses, $1.00. LOST PRAIRIE HERB FARM, 805 Kienas MAPLES Place, NY 10505. Rd , Kalispell, MT 59901. MATSU-MOM!]I NURSERY-Attention Discrimi GREENHOUSES HERB & PERENNIAL WEEKEND AT nating Gardeners and Bonsai Growers-we are WRENWOOD offering the finest Japanese Maples and Black Redwood/fiberglass, solar-efficient kits, func Pines. Also we have selections of Spruce and tional, economical. Write for FREE brochure. Mother's Day Weekend, May 10th & 11th. Work Tropicals for Indoor Growers. Catalog $1.25, PO GOTHIC ARCH GREENHOUSES, PO Box 1564- shops, Ice Cream SOCial, and plant and hanging Box 11 414, Philadelphia, PA 19111. (215) 722- AH, Mobile, AL 36633-1564. basket sale. WRENWOOD, Berkeley Springs, WV 25411 (304) 258-3071 6286. GROUND COVERS NATURAL DECORATIONS PACHYSANDRA-Sturdy, heavily rooted plants HERB PlANTS Unusual All-Season Wreaths! Enchanting Victo for shaded areas. Postpaid: 50-$13.95; 100-$24.95; 400 Varieties of herb plants, seeds. Common, rian, Adorable Country, Sophisticated Casual, 500-$99.95; 1,000-$175.00. First-class stock. Folder exotic. 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20 • MARCH 1986 Bigger, healthier plants, fruits Blooming Size, $9.50 each, Three plants mini and vegetables with high nutrient, mum, or Ten 3" pot seedlings $39.95, Postpaid U.S.A., instructions. List $1.00, deductible. GREEN 100% organic Tropical Bat Guano VALLEY ORCHIDS, Rte. 1, Box 233S, Folsom, LA 70437 Fast release, 100% natural Tropical Bat Guano is the miracle plant food PALMS from the Caribbean. It is the most MINIATURE "LADY PALMS " have been popular effective 100% organic plant food indoor plants in the Orient for over 300 years. and soil conditioner in _the world. Tropical Bat Guano. provides: richer Elegant, long-li ved, easy-care. Choose from many soil with high humus content (up to different green and va riegated varieties. Rhapis approx. 49%); more colorful flowers Pa lm book 52 pages $5.00. Catalog of palms and and plants; guaranteed rapid pottery $1.00. RHAPIS GARDENS, PO Box 287-A, growth; more disease reSistance; Gregory, TX 78359 better flavor, appearance and nutri tional content of vegetables, fruits Interested in Palms? join members throughout and herbs; stronger roots, stems the world and receive the quarterly journal PRIN and flowers; larger yields; and, CIPES. Ra re seed bank and extensive bookstore. most importantly, longer plant life. Membership is $15 per year. THE INTERNA You owe it to your plants, fruits and TIONAL PALM SOCIETY, PO Box 368, Lawrence, vegetables to enjoy the unique KS 66044. advantages of Tropical Bat Guano. Based on the excellent results PERENNIALS secured by others, we are con We offer a good selection of sturdy plants. Send fident you will never be satisfied $1.00 for Plant List ( refundable). CAMELOT with anything else. At your favorite store or order by mail direct from NORTH, R2 , Pequot Lakes, MN 56472. Unique double glazed 6 QuaIi ty changeable thermal option us. We pay shipping. 8 oz. box, $3 °; Over 800 varieties of perennials. Send $2.00 (re 5 lb. bag , $11 99, Larger sizes available. fundable) for catalog. CROWNSVILLE NURSERY, Redwood Greenhouses 1241 Generals Highway, Crownsville, MD 21032. The finest you can buy Organic Products, Inc. , Wide variety of designs & sizes, plus Hostas, Perennials, Ground Covers. Send stamped custom sizes to suit special need s. 3200 W. Belmont Avenue self-addressed envelope for our price list. PIC Sun room design in many sizes, too . Chicago, IL 60618 '1/ 312/539·5000 CADIllY FARM , 1971 Whippoorwill Rd., Bishop, , Unique prefabrication - easy to erect. GA 30621. , Low factory prices, freight prepaid. , Options and many accessories. ADVANCED PROPAGATION March 15-1 6. Perennial and Herb Disp1n Plants , 30 years experience. for Sale, Round Table Discussions for tips on MIST SYSTEMS planting, planning and plotting the perennial tS\ Send for free color catalog border. Sat. Mar. 15: 10 a. m.-1 2 noon, 1:30-3:30 turdi-built (Free brochure) p.m.; Sun. Mar. 16: 1:30-3:30 p.m. Advance Reg :Manut"ac tUl.' ln.g Company istration Required. Also Demonstration on Mak Dept. AH . 11304 SW Boones Ferry Rd .. Portland. OR 97219 AQUAMOHITOR ing Moss Baskets and Hanging Gardens. GREAT Dep t. 10 - Box 327 - Huntington, NY. 11743 FALLS GREENHOUSES, 10106 Georgetown Pike, 516-427-5664 Great Falls, VA 22066. (703) 759-3493. Exit 13W off Interstate 495. Unusual ROCK & SHADE Plants, Hosta, Hem HORTICULTURAL EXPLORATION OF erocall is , Semperivium , Shrubs, Iris & Native Americans. Perennial Seed. 24 Page Catalog, Send 44¢ in stamps. ROCKNOLL NURSERY 9210 U S 50, Dept. 33, Hillsboro, OH 45 133. Broad collection of perennials, induding rock Europe garden plants, hardy fuchSias, Helianthemums. Catalog $1.50 (refundable with order). WREN WOOD, Rte. 4, PO Box 361, Berkeley Springs, WV 25411. PEONIES, JAPANESE IRIS, DAYillIES and HOSTA Catalog- nOO (refundable with first order.) CA PRICE FARM NURSERY, 15425 SW Pleasant Hill, Sherwood, OR 97140. PLANTS-RARE BUT AFFORDABLE Extensive selection: • American Natives' Outstand ing Ornamentals' Uncommon Conifers • Peren nials • Hardiest Eucalyptus • Wildlife Plants .• SWITZERLAND AND NORTHERN ITALY (July 11-25) Affordable containerized starter -plants. Informa tive catalog- $2.00. FORESTFARM, 990 Tetherah, Alpine gardens are the highlight of this exciting exploration. Visit Champex and Williams, OR 97544. Rochers de Naye near Montreaux, both lovely private villas in the Italian lake region. Also scheduled are visits to botanic gardens and tours of the beautiful PLANTS-SCARCE AND UNUSUAL cities of Geneva, Interlaken and Zurich. Distinctive plants for Yo\,l r garden and landscape. Scarce, unusual and many old favorites. Well es In addition, we are offering two other European Horticultural Explorations: tablished in pots ready fo r you to grow on. FREE Spring England and Chelsea (May 8-23) and Fall England (September 10-25). catalogue. APPLACHIAN GARDENS , Box 82, Waynesboro, PA 17268. Enjoy three different European itineraries escorted by horticulturists. All include visits to private homes and gardens in addition to interesting cultural and historical sights. Since PLUMERIAS AND EXCITING TROPICALS these trips usually are fully subscribed, we suggest early enro!lment, particularly for those Rainbows of color, enchanting fragrances, over who wish single hotel rooms. 50 Named Plumerias (Frangipani) cuttings and For your free brochures on these Horticultural Explorations led by-horticulturists, please plants. Also rare bulbs, gingers, books and more! write to Education Department, American Horticultural SOCiety, Box 0105, Mt. Ver Catalog $1.00. THE PLUMERlA PEOPLE, non, VA 22121. Or call collect: (513) 281-7000. PO Box 820014, Houston, TX 77272-0014.
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22 • MARCH 1986 00 ! The American Horticultural Soci in this country and Canada. Includes botanical pages. Beautifully illustrated overview of gar ety is pleased to offer members its descriptions of hundreds of genera and thou den design, including a brief history, as well sands of species in cultivation. Some cultural as an examination of specific elements of the best-selling titles. Choose a new notes, a common name index and information landscape (landings, entries, vertical changes) book for your own library, or se on botanical nomenclature also included. and of design elements such as paving, water lect an old favorite to give a Hardcover, $125 .00. AHS member price, and light. An excellent planning tool. Hard friend. $117.00. cover, $35.00. AHS member price, $28 .00. The Ortho Problem Solver. 2nd Ed. Oaks of North America. Howard A. Miller &. ------Michael D. Smith, Editor. 1,040 pages. Im Samuel H. Lamb. 327 pages. Field guide to 75 mensely yaluable reference book on problems species and varieties of oaks. Includes descrip OrderFonn tions and illustrations, as well as range maps encountered by the home gardener. Prices reflect AHS member discount and winter twig and acorn characteristics for Hundreds of color photographs. Original edi o The Ortho Problem Solver ...... $160.15 tion sold out. Hardcover, $179.95. AHS mem most species. Also includes a key to 112 Mexi CHEVR.(J3 150 ber price, $160.15. can species. Hardcover, $15.95; soft cover, o Perennials ...... $7.95 $9.95 . AHS member price, $14.35 (hardcover); HPBOO·OO45O Perennials: How to Select, Grow & Enjoy. $8.95 (softcover) . o EncyloP/ledia of Australian Plants ... . $135.90 Pamela Harper and Frederick McGourty. 160 ISBS Plants That Merit Attention- pages. Essential reference work packed with Peppers: The Domesticated Capsicums. o Jean Andrews. 186 pages. 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Hardcover, cultivars not found in earlier editions. Hard Growing and Propagating Wild Flowers $159.90 for the set. AHS member price, cover, $31.80; softcover, $24.80 . AHS member o Hardcover ...... $ 21.20 $135.90. Prices for individual volumes avail price, $27.85 (hardcover); $21.70 (softcover) . UNORT-04I00 able on request. o Softcover ...... $ 12.70 The American Woman's Garden. Rosemary UNORT-04 11O o Garden Design ...... $ 28.00 Plants That Merit Attention-Volume 1: Verey & Ellen Samuels, Editors. 191 pages. 5IMON-01930 Trees. Janet Meakin Poor, Editor, 375 pages. Collected essays by 30 American' women about Descriptions and illustrations of 150 species their gardens. Each essay includes the history I would like to order books. and cultivars of trees that are not common on of the individual's garden, in addition to Please add $1.75 per book to cover postage a national basis, but which deserve to be thoughts about the garden and gardening in and handling. grown more frequently. Hardcover, $44.95. general. Gardens from all over the country are Enclosed is my check for $____ _ AHS member price, $38.20. represented. Hardcover, $34.00. AHS member Please make check.<; payable to the American Horticultural price, $30.60. Society. Allow six week.<; for delivery. Virginia residents, Ball Red Book: Greenhouse Growing. 14th please add 4% sales tax. Ed. Vic Ball, Editor. 720 pages. Essential refer Growing and Propagating Wild Flowers. Mail to: Jeanne Eggeman, American Horticultural ence on all aspects of commercial production Harry R. Phillips. 3'31 pages. Useful, informa Society, P.O. Box 0105-Ml0, Mount Vernon, VA of horticul tural crops. Over 425 pages devoted tive book covering the essentials of growing 22121. to the cultural requirements of specific crops. and propagating wildflowers. Covers the Hardcover, $26.95. AHS member price, basics of wildflower cultivation, and contains $22.65. detailed information on individual species of Ship to flowering plants and ferns. Hardcover, $24.95; Hortus Third: A Concise Dictionary of softcover, $14.95. AHS member price $21.20 Street Plants Cultivated in the United States and (hardcover); $12.70 (softcover). Canada. The Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. City 1290 pages. Published in 1976, this remains Garden Design: History, Principle~l Ele the classic reference guide to cultivated plants ments, Practice. William Lake Dou!:yas. 224 State Zip Plants on Pollution Patrol Researchers in Israel have found that ers; and nitrogen dioxide, which es plants are an inexpensive and effec capes from gas appliances and wood tive way to monitor pollution. At stoves. Eight to 15 spider plants least 20 different species of plants would be required to purify the air are being used in a project designed in an average-Sized, well-insulated to measure air pollution levels at home. high pollution areas surrounding oil Chinese evergreen (Aglaonema), refineries in Haifa, Israel. The project golden pothos (Epipremnum au was initiated by Dutch-born Professor reum) , peace lily (Spathiphyt!um) Zev Naveh of the Department of Agri and peperomia also lowered pollu cultural Engineering at Technion, Is tion levels during testing, but did not rael's Institute of SCience, in re perform as well as spider plants. sponse to complaints about pollution On the other side of the coin, sci from the refineries. "We wanted to Spider plants, entists at the plant stress laboratory discover which pollutants existed, in in Beltsville, Maryland, are experi what concentrations, and most im Chlorophytum sp. menting with paclobutrazol, a synthe portant of all , if they were at danger are highly efficient sized chemical that regulates plant ous levels," said Naveh. Instead of in absorbing toxic growth and also has been found to purchasing expensive monitoring protect crops against injury due to equipment, plant species found to re substances. air pollution and other forms of spond to specific pollutants were stress. In laboratory tests, tolerance planted and studied. Plants are not only good monitors to sulphur dioxide, freezing and high Through these studies it was found of pollution, they also can function as temperatures was increased in soy that alfalfa is sensitive to sulfur diox biological air-purification systems, ac beans, snap beans and apple seed ide; pinto beans, eggplant and to cording to studies conducted by lings whose leaves or soil had been bacco can detect ozone and nitrates; NASA to identify such systems for use exposed to the chemical. According aleppo pine trees can be used to in space stations. Surprisingly, spider to Edward H. Lee, a scientist involved monitor ozone; tomatoes, lettuce, cu plants (Chlorophytum sp.) are highly in the testing, the mechanism by cumber and ,pineapple are sensitive efficient in absorbing toxic sub which the chemical functions to de to nitrates; and melons are good stances. These plants absorbed three crease stress is unknown. It appar monitors of high ethylene levels. toxins that are known to be present ently works in some plants but not in According to Naveh, even persons in homes and offices to below-detect others, so it is not yet known if it with minimal training can analyze able levels within 24 hours of expo may one day be Widely employed. If their plants for damage due to pollu sure. These indoor air pollutants in it is proven to be conSistently effec tion. He believes farmers should use cluded formaldehyde, a suspected tive in protecting the plants listed these methods to check their crops carcinogen released by many build above, this growth regulator may one for damage, because crop yields can ing products and home furnishings; day be made into a spray or incorpo be reduced as much as 20 percent by carbon monoxide from tobacco rated into the soil to protect these pollution. smoke and unvented kerosene heat- enVironmentally sensitive plants.
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