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January 1938 The NATION AL HORTICULTURAL MAGAZINE JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN HORTICULl'URAL SOCIETY JANUARY, 1938 The American Horticultural Society PRESENT ROLL OF OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS April 12, 1937 OFFICERS President, Mr. B. Y. Morrison, Washington, D. C. First Vice-President, Mrs. Charles Walcott, Washington, D. C. Second Vice-President, Mrs. Fairfax Harrison, Belvoir, Fauquier Co., Va. Secretary, Mrs. Eugene Ferry Smith, Bethesda, Md. Treasurel', F. ]. Hopkins, Washington, D. C. DIRECTORS Terms Expiring in 1938 Terms Expiring in 1939 Mrs. J. Norman Henry, Gladwyne, Pa. Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, Washington, D. C. Mrs. Mortimer]. Fox, Peekskill, N. Y. Mrs. Oement S. Houghton, Chestnut Hill, Dr. ]. Horace McFarland, Harrisburg, Pa. Mass. Mrs. Chester Welles, Washington, D. C. Mrs. Arthur Hoyt Scott, Media, Pa. Mrs. William Holland Wilmer, Washing- ton, D. C. HONORARY VICE-PRESIDENTS Mr. James H . Porter, Pres., Mrs. Clement Houghton, American Azalea & Camellia Society, American Rock Garden Society, Macon, Ga. 152 Suffolk Road, Chestnut Hill, Mass. Mr. Tom H. Smith, Pres., American Hegonia Society, Dr. Abn Kirk, Pres., 3601 East Broadway, American Rose Society, Long Beach, Calif. Roanoke, Va. Dr. Edgar T. Wherry, Pres., Mr. Howard E. Gates, Pres., American Fern Society, Cactus & Succulent Society of America, 6162 N. Figueroa St., Univers ity of Pennsylvania, Los Angeles, Calif. Philadelphia, Pa. Mr. Edward Steichen, Pres., Dr. H . H. Everett, Pres., Delphinium Society, American Iris Society, 139 East 69th St., 417 Woodmen Accident Bldg., New York, N. Y. Lincoln, Nebr. Mrs. John H. Cunningham, Pres., Mr. Chas. F. Wassenberg, Pres., Herb Society of America, American Peony Society, 53 Seaver St., Van Wert, Ohio. Brookline, Mass. SOCIETIES AFFILIATED WITH THE AMERICAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 1937 Alexandria, Virginia, Garden Oub, American Fuchsia Society, Mrs. Charles Holden, Miss Alice Eastwood. Secretary, Rosemont, California Academy of Sciences, Alexandria, Va. Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, Calif. American Amaryllis Society, Bethesda Community Garden Oub, Wyndham Hayward, Secretary, Mrs. B. T. Elmore, Winter Park, Fla. 103 Locust St., Bethesda, Md. American Begonia Society, California Garden Oub Federation, Tom H. Smith, President, Miss E. Marlow, Lib., 3601 E. Broadway, 992 S. Oakland, Long Beach, Calif. Pasadena, Calif. Publication Office, 32nd St. and Elm Ave., Baltimore, Md. Entered as second-class matter January 27, 1932, at the Post Office at Baltimore, Md., nnder the Act of August 24, 1912. California Horticultural Society, Midwe~t HorticulturaJl Society, Miss Cora R. Brandt, Secretary, Eldred E . Green, Secy., 485 California St., 100 North Central Park Blvd., San Francisco, Calif. Chicago, Hl. Chestnut Hill Garden Club. North Carolina Garden Club, George Baldwin, Lib., Miss C. S. Black, . Heath St., Wake Forest, N. C. Chestnut Hill, Mass. Northern Nut Growers Association, Dr. G. A. Zimmerman, Pres., Chevy Chase (D. C.) Garden Club. 32 S. 13th St., Mrs. J. E. Fi,tzgerald, Harrisburg, Pa. 55~9 Chevy Chase Parkway, Chevy Chase, D. C. Ohio Association of Garden Clubs, Mrs. Silas B. Waters, Chevy Chase (Md.) Garden Club, 2005 Edgecliff Point, Mrs. Richard F. Jackson, Pres., Cincinnati, Ohio. 5 Oxford St., Chevy Chase, Md. Rock Garden Society of Ohio, Mrs. Frank Garry, Cleveland Garden Center, 5800 Wyatt Ave., East Boulevard at Euclid Ave., Kennedy Heights, Cleveland, Ohio. Cincinnati, Ohio. Dayton Garden Center, St. George's Garden Club, % Dayton Art Institute, Baltimore, Md. Dayton, Ohio. Takoma Horticultural Club, Takoma Park, D. C. Fauquier and Loudoun Garden Club, Mrs. John T. Cochran, The Federated Garden Club of Cincinnati The Plains, Va. and ViciNity, Mrs. Bart H. Hawley, The Garden Club of Darien, 242 Greendale Avenue, Darien Free Library, Cincinnati, Ohio. Darien, Conn. The Little Gate Garden Club, Garden Center Institute of Buffalo, GreeNsboro Public Library, Sta. H, Box B, Greensboro, N. C. Buffalo, New York. The Little Garden Club of Sandy Spring, Garden Club of Kentucky, Mrs. W m. Hough, Mrs. T. F. Roemele, Sandy Spring, Md. 3214 Wren Road, The San Francisco Garden Club, Louisville, Ky. Room 133, Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco, Calif. Garden Club of Ohio, Mrs. Frank B. Stearns, Town and Country Garden Club of Cleveland, 15830 S. Park Blvd., Mrs. W. H. Wood, Cleveland, Ohio; Anderson and Green Road, S. Euclid, Cleveland, Ohio. Garden Department. Hemet Women's Club, Mrs. David K. White. Trowel Club, Box 564, Hemet, ·Calif. Mrs. Theod0re Joslin, Pres., 4934 Indian Lane, Georgetown Garden Club, Washington, D. C. Mrs. Edmund M. Talcott, 3229 R St., N. W., Washington Garden Club, Washington, D. C. Mrs. Frederick H. Taylor, 817 Prince St., Lake Washington Garden Ouh, Alexandria, Va. Mrs. ]. M. Blackford, Woodridge Garden Club, 3048 E. Laurelhurst, Woodridge Branch Library, Seattle, Wash. Washington, D. C. Magnolia Circle, Worcester ComIty Horticultural Society, 950 Bay St., N. E., 30 Elm Street, St. Petersburg, Fla. Worcester, Mass. [ i ] .The National Horticultural Magazine Vol. 17 Oopyright, 1938, by THE AMEJllCAN HOR'l!IC'ULTURAI, SOCIE'fY No. 1 JANUARY, 1938 CONTENT S A Diminutiv·e Palm from Mayaland. O. F. COOK and J . F. JOYNER ____ 1 Thirtty Mope Climbe.rs for Califomia. KATHERINE D. JONES __ __ ________ 13 Wjnter Gardinage. LOUISE B. FISHER _______________________________ ._ _________________ 59 Rhododendron Notes: Rhododendrons ·of Golden Gate Park. ERIC \V ALTHER.. _________ _____ 64 Rhododend?'on sen''Ulat'bl1n. HUBERT F. FISHER______________ __ _____ ______ __ 70 Southern Azaleas. H UBERT F. FISHER ._______________________________________ ______ 70 A Book or Two_______________________________________ ____ ___ _____________________________________ ___ ______ 71 The Gardener's Pocketbook: Winter Flowers. F. E . McILVAINE __________________________________________________ 76 P hymosia Te11w ta. BERN ARD HARKNESS __________________________________________ 76 Caladium a1'gyr'ites. WYNDHAM HA YWARD ._____________________________________ 77 Achi1nenes Purq ty . WYNDHAM HA YW ARD ______________________________ __ ___ ___ 80 FClJtshedera. ROBERT A. yOUNG _________ __ ______________ _______________________________ 82 Two Tr-opi'cal Crinums. CLA UDE HOPE _____________________ ___ ____________________ 83 White Forms of Nart:ive F lowers. \i\TILL C. CURTIS _________________________ 87 Conf,erenoe Oon Flowering T I1ees and Shrubs_______________________ ___________ 87 Published quarterly by The American HOI'ticultural Society. Publication offi ce, 32nd St. and E lm Ave., Baltimore, Md. Editorial office, Room 821, W ashington Loan and Trust Buildinl'-', Wash. ington, D. O. Oontributions from all members ar e corrlially invited and shollld be sent to the Editorial office. A subscription to the magazine is included in the a nnual dues to all members; to non-members the pI'ice is seventy-five cents the copy, three dolla r s a year. [ii] The National Horticultural Magazine Volume Seventeen Washington, D. C. 1938 Copyright Amel'icall Horticultural Society, 1 938 Matthews J asm ;n1.l17'L si1np licifohu?n A Diminutive Palm From Mayaland O. F. COOK AND J. F. JOYNER THE region occupied by the ancient Peten, in 1922, living as undergrowth Maya civilization in southern Mexico plants in partial shade, with a slender and eastern Guatemala has a very in­ green short-jointed trunk three or teresting flora, now being studied as four feet high and half an inch in a background of primitive culture. diameter, and leaf blades only 12 to Sentiments of historic interest that have 15 inches long. Figs. 1-4. A few long attached to the archaic civiliza­ young palms were brought home and tions of the Mediterranean countries kept for many years as house-plants, are extending to Yucatan, Peten and growing well and flowering regularly Campeche, where hundreds of ancient under ordinary living-room conditions, cities have been found, buried in un­ but requiring hand-pollination for the inhabited forests. The Maya architec­ production of seeds, on account of ture in its natural setting of palms the sexes being separate, as in the and other tropical vegetation is found date palm. so attractive that it is being imitated The first pollinations were made in in American cities. Much of the 1926, and several fruits matured. Maya country is very similar to south­ The seedlings were raised in a green­ ern Florida, it region of limestone house and began to flower in the third reef formatioils, and many of the season, showing that a much more Mayalatld plants are able to thrive in rapid propagation of the stock would Florida, itlcIuding several kinds of be practicable than with other palms palms. that have been domesticated. Simpler One of the Mayaland palms may methods of transferring the pollen have a much wider use and even a have been devised in recent years and commercial value for growing as a seedlings raised under household con­ house plant. On account of being so ditions, leaving no doubt of a complete small as to reach its full development domestic cultivation being feasible, in a six-inch or eight-inch pot, and through all the stages of the life his­ being so tolerant of shade and of tory. variable temperature and moisture The palm was considered at first as condit,ions as to thriV'e in dwellings, a form of Cha11wedo1'ea elegans, a this diminutive 'palm may go into species described originally from general cultivation, with its Maya na­ Mexico, whose name has been used tivity as an added interest. A living during the last century for several plant is a betta
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