April 1964 AMERICAN HORTICULTURAL

TIIE .A.~ERIC.A.N ~GAZINE April 1964 AMERICAN HORTICULTURAL 1600 BLADENSBURG ROAD, NORTHEAST. WASHINGTON, D. C. For United Horticulture *** to accumulate, increase, and disseminate horticultural information Editorial Committee Directors Terms Expiring 1964 JOHN L. CREECH, Chairman R. C. ALLEN W. H . HODGE Ohio P. H. BRYDON FREDERIC P. LEE California CARL W. FENNINGER CONRAD B . LINK Pennsylvania CURTIS MAY JOHN E . GRAF District of Columbia FREDERICK G . MEYER GRACE P. WILSON Maryland WILBUR H . YOUNGMAN Terms Expiring 1965 HAROLD EpSTEIN New YOI'k Officers FRED C . GALLE Georgia PRESIDENT FRED J. NISBET North Carolina R USSELL J. SEIBERT J. FRANKLIN STYER Kennett Square, Pennsylvania Pennsylvania DONALD WYMAN FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT Massachusetts RAy C . ALLEN Terms Expiring 1966 Mansfie ld, Ohio J. HAROLD CLARKE Washington SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT JAN DE GRAAFF MRS. JULIAN W. HILL Oregon Wilm ington, Delaware CARLTON B . LEES Massachusetts RUSSELL J. SEIBERT ACTING SECRETARY-TREASURER . Pennsylvania GRACE P. WILSON DONALD WATSON Bladensburg, Maryland Michigan The American Horticultural Magazine is the official publication of the American Horticultural Society and is issued four times a year during the quarters commencing with January, April, J~ly and October. It is devoted to the dissemination of knowledge in the science and art of growmg ornamental plants, fruits, vegetables, and related subjects. Original papers increasing the historical, varietal, and cultural know ledges of plant mate~ials of economic and aesthetic importance are welcomed and will be published as early as possible. The Chairman of the Editorial Committee should be consulted for manuscript specifications. Reprints will be furnished in accordance with the following schedule of prices, plus post age, and should be ordered at the time the galley proof is returned by the author: One hundred copies-2 pp $6.60; 4 pp $12.10; 8 pp $25.30; 12 pp $36.30; Covers $12.10. Entered as second class matter in the post office at Baltimore, Maryland, in accordance with the Act of August 24, 191 2. Additional entry for Washington, D.C., was authorized July 15, 1955, in accordance with the pro vis ions of Section 132. 122, Postal Manual. The American H orticu.ltural Magazine is included as a benefit of membership in the American Horticultural Society, Individual Membership dues being $6.00 a year. APRIL. 1964 FORMERLY THE NATIONAL HORTICULTURAL MAGAZINE VOLUME 43 • NUMBER 2 Contents Some Garden Narcissus R eappraised B. Y. M ORRISON __ __ __________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ 67 Antonine Nicholas Duchesne- First Strawberry H ybridist VIVIAN LEE __ _________ ___________ ._____ _____________________ ____________ __________________________________ ___ ______ __ _ 80 Manglietia insignis G . A. C. HERKLOTS _______________________________________ ______________________________________________________ 89 National Forest Areas of Interest to Horticulturists CHRISTOPHER M. GRANGER __________________________________________________________________________________ 93 History of the Modern Delphinium FRANK REINELT ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ _ 98 Factors Affecting the Germination of Palm Seeds HARRISON G. YOCUM _______________________________________________________ ________________________________ ____ _ 104 A Book or Two ___ _______ _______________ _____________________________________________________________________ ___ ____ ___ 107 The Gardeners' Pocketbook N ymphea gigantea var. alba. PATRICK N UTT _____________________________ ______ ___ ___ ______ __ III Begonia evansiana. EDGAR D EN ISO N ___ ____ __________ __________________________ __ _________ __ ________ III Two Rare Magnolias in Michigan. Gus KROSSA ____ _______________ _______ ____ _________ ___ 11 4 Agaves on the Texas Gulf Coast. J. F. PIERATT __________ _________________ _________________ 116 Ilex comuta, Thirty Years After. DONALD JAMES ____ ____________________ ___ ____ ______ 118 Temstroemia gymanthera. JOHN L. CREECH ______________________ ____ _______ __ ______________ 120 Curcuma roscoe ana and Globba winitii. ALEK KORSAKOFF ____ ____________ __ ___ __ 121 Blotch of Horsechestnut and Blight of Sycamore. CURTIS MAY _______________ 121 On Tree Flowers. W. H . HODGE __ _________ _____ ____________ __ ____ __ ___________________ ___ ___ _________ 122 The Exalted Weed. ALMA BYHRE BOND _____ _____ ______________________________ ____ ________ ___ _ 126 Plants from a Medicinal Garden. MURIEL W. SWEET __________ ______________________ _ 126 APRIL COVER ILLUSTRATION Nymphaea gigantea var. alba (By Courtesy of Longwood Gardens) Copyright, © 1964 by The American Horticultllral Society, Inc. VETTERLE 8: REINELT Frank Reinelt among his Delphiniums In 1963, the Royal Horticultural Society awaTded ,Mr. Reinelt the Veitch Gold Mem01"ial Medal faT his W01'k with Delphinium, PTimula, and Polyanthus Prim roses. Some Garden Narcissus Reappraised B. Y. Morrison* Before making a change in residence all names designated by the R.H.S. Clas with radical alterations in climate and sification numbers, 8 and 7 to which soil, one may resolve never to complain the writer added 5 and 10 on a hunch about the things he can no longer grow. that will be noted later on. In reading But this resolve soon crumbles and re the Market Bulletins, one could indulge grets of various kinds continue to plague any sporting or gambling sense he might the mind and the imagination. The have, remembering that the "farm la writer is no more firm in his convictions dies," as the writer was once sharply than any other, but his own regret that reminded, were not professional and he could no longer grow narcissus as could not be expected to know what once, could not be endured, in spite they had! As far as the writer's experi of some early failures and the local tra ence is concerned, these ladies h ave pro ditions. vided mostly bulbs that fall into Classes Whether the arguments that were em 7 and 8, though they have also given ployed to justify starting once more in a few in Class 1, that are useful here a hunt for kinds of narcissus for the chiefly because most trumpets do not coastal garden in Mississippi, are totally do well. specious or not, is no longer of interest. As in the case with any sinner who, Many narcissus can be grown here in after reform, begins to falter in his de spite of all denials. terminations, various representatives of The basis of the plan was the realiza other groups have been sneaked into the tion that many gardens in the area boast orders from growers, the usual excuse an endless array of a relatively small being a purely sentimental recall of for number of true Tazetta narcissus and mer garden days. An astonishing num what was later found to be N . X inter ber seem to have succeeded, though the medius, thanks to the help of Mrs. pattern, if there is one, suggests that George Watrous, Jr., of Washington, most of the more successful fall into D. C. The local gardener often referred Class II (large cups) in any of its di to all these not as narcissus or even visions save the one that allows pink jonquils, the frequently misused term, in the cup or near trumpet. but answered my inquiries with an The usual plan was to buy in varying astonished, "Oh, those!" numbers, plant all in a bed as carefully In addition to the above mentioned, prepared as possible, watch through the it seemed probable that still others de first year, but draw no conclusions. After rived from the basic species would suc an addition of commercial fertilizer in ceed equally well. Many of the above autumn, wait to see what sort of bloom had come from countries with long hot ing and increase is shown the second summers, some with mild winters, others year. From these results, many of them not. Many make winter foliage that sufficiently striking to cause belief, one seems proof against such frosts and could go on to order and attempt any freezes as we may get, though there have other foolhardy additions he might wish. been some losses with extreme low tem peratures, as in the winter of 1962-63. Triandrus Hybrids, Class 5: Two avenues of inquiry were open: Although Class 5, Triandrus Hybrids, The usual trade lists and the advertising has not been mentioned, the success of sheets known through the South as Farm a colony of N. triandrus var. albus, of Market Bulletins. In buying from the some ten years standing prompted that first group, one had merely to look for addition. The original group may have changed in population from year to year, -Formerly Editor, The American HorticuU"ral Maga· z;ne but the total number has not diminished [67] (VAN N . ANDERSON Bann Fermoy and seeding has been allowed to follow angle of the sides. Yellow is usually the course of nature. pale but there are several hues well This "Angel's Tears" is too well worth having. If the writer is correct, known to need any description but it those hybrids that have had pollen from may be remarked here that its nodding a trumpet form, do not seem as resigned pendant flowers, vaguely reminding one to our conditions here and usually fail of fuchsias, has been a good parent. after the first year. Its stronger growing form, N. triandrus The named clones that have passed var. loiseleurii, is even better and hap the test of annual bloom, increase in pily grows well here, in such few speci bulb numbers for two and in some cases mens as we have. The same cannot be for more years are as follows: said for the color forms of the species Rosedown here, as rarely more than a bulk or two Forty-niner Frosty Morn Samba from a considerable number planted will Honey Bells Shot Silk maintain themselves for years. The in Sidhe finite number of hybrids that owe their Horn-of-plenty Kings Sutton Silver Chimes charm to one or the other of these par Lemon Drops Silver Fleece ents is great. Most will succeed here. Moonshine Stoke The chief alteration of the original form Niveth Tresamble and character is one of size and vigor.

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