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The NATIONAL HORTICULTURAL MAGAZINE JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY JANUARY, 1935 The American Horticultural Society PRESENT ROLL OF OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS March 1, 1934 OFFICERS President, Mr. Robert Pyle, West Grove, Penna. First Vice-President, Mr. Knowles A. Ryerson, Westchester Apartments, Washington, D. C. Second Vice-President, Mrs. Fairfax Harrison, Belvoir, Fauquier Co., Va. Secretary, C. C. Thomas, 211 Spruce Street, Takoma Park, D. C. Treasurer, Roy G. Pierce, S04 Aspen Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. DIRECTORS Terms Expiring in 1935 Mrs. Clement S. Houghton, Chestnut F. J. Crider, Superior, Ariz. Hill, Mass. Mrs. Mortimer Fox, Peekskill, N. Y. Mr. D. Victor Lumsden, Washington, Mr. F. L. Mulford, Washington, D. C. D.C. Mrs. Silas B. Waters, Cincinnati, O. Dr. Earl B. White, Kensington, Md. Mrs. J. Norman Henry, Gladwyne,Pa. Terms Expiring in 1936 Mr. J. Marion Shull, Chevy Chase, Mr. Fairman R. Furness, Media, Pa. Md. THE NATIONAL HORTICULTURAL MAGAZINE Published by and for the Society B. Y. MORRISON, Editor CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Mr. Alfred Bates Mr. Sherman R. Duffy Mr. Carl Purdy Dr. Clement G. Bowers Mrs. Mortimer J. Fox Mr. C. A. Reed Mrs. C. 1. DeBevoise Mrs. J. Norman Henry Mr. J. Marion Shull Dr. W. C. Deming Mrs. Francis King Mr. Arthur D. Slavin Miss Frances Edge McIlvaine SOCIETIES AFFILIATED WITH THE AMERICAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 1933 Alexandria, Virginia, Garden Oub, California Garden Club Federation, Mrs. Francis Carter, President, Mrs. Leonard B. Slosson, Pres., Episcopal High School, 426 So. Arden Blvd., Alexandria, Va. Los Angeles, Calif. American Amaryllis Society, Chestnut Hill Garden Club, Wyndham Hayward, Secretary, Mrs. Edwin S. Webster, Pres., 2240 Fairbanks Avenue, 307 Hammond Street, Winter Park, Fla. Chestnut Hill, Mass. Chevy Chase (D. C.) Garden Club. American Fuchsia Society, Chevy Chase (Md.) Garden Oub, Miss A~ice ?astwood, Secretary, Bethesda, Md. ·Cahforma Academy of Sciences, Golden Gate Pa:rk, Cleveland Garden Center, San Francisco, Calif. East Boulevard at Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio. Bethesda Community Garden Club Mrs. E. Ferry Smith, , Civic Study Club, Mrs. O. R. Bruson, Secretary, Bethesda, Md. Michigan, N. D. Blackstone Garden Club, Fairfax Garden Club, Mrs. A. G. Ingham, Pres., Mrs. L. P. Tayloe, Secretary, Wellsville, Virginia. --------Vienna, Virginia. Publication Office, 1918 Harford Avenue, Bal~imore, Md. Entered as second-class matter January ?/T, . 1932, at the Post Office at Baltimore, Md., under the Act of August 24, 11112. The . National Horticultural Magazille Volume Fourteen Washington, D. C. 1935 Copyright American Horticultural Society, 1935 Fairfield Garden Club Montgomery Suhurban Garden Club, Mrs. John R. Reyburn, James c. Dulin, Jr., President, 523 Old Post Road, Fairfield, Conn. 325 High St., FrieNdship Hgts .. Federated Garden Clubs of Cincinnati and Chevy Chase, Md. Vicinity, Newtonville Garden Club, Mrs. Silas B. Waters, President 70 W ashington Park, 2005 Edgecliff Point, Cincinnati, O. Newtonville, Mass. Galesburg Horticultural Improvement So Northem Nut Growers' Association, ciety, Frank H . Frey, Pres., C. Z. Nelson, Secretary, Room 930, La Salle St. Station, 534 Hawkinson Ave., Galesburg, Ill. Chicago, Ill. Garden Center, Marin Co., Pennsy,lvania Nut Growers' Association, Gerstle Park, San Rafael, Calif. John W . Hershey, Secretary, Garden Club of Cincinnati, Downingtown, Penna. Mrs. H . W . Nichols, Plainfield Garden Club, 2345 Madison Road, Mrs. Frederic W. Goddard, President, E. Walnut Hills, Cincirunati, O. 205 E. 9th St., Garden Club of Buzzard's Bay, Plainfield, N. J. Mrs. M. W. Wilcox, P otomac Rose Society, 350 Union St., New Bedford, Mass. Dr. H . E. Howe, Sec'y, Garden Club of MadisoN, N. J ., 706 Mills Bldg., Mrs. Hubert Cheeseman, Sec'y, Washington, D. C. Academy Road, Madison, N. J. Rock Garden Society of Ohio, Garden Club of Ohio, Mrs. Frank Garry, Mrs. Frank B. Stearns, Pres., 5800 W yatt Ave., 15830 S. P ark Blvd., Shaker H gts., Kennedy H eights, Cincinnati, O. Cleveland, Ohio. Shaker Lakes Garden Club, Garden Club of Omaha, Mrs. FraNk B. Stearns, Mrs. Gertrude P ettit, Pres., 15830 S. Park Blvd., Shaker Hills, 5023 Spaulding St., Omaha, N ebr. Cleveland, O. Garden ClNb of Peekskill, St. Louis H orticuhural Society, 118 Pine St., Peekskill, N. Y. Missouri Botanical Garden, Garden Club of Somerset Hills, St. Louis, Mo. Mrs. J. M. Ellsworth, Pres., Takoma Horticultural Club, Bernardsville, N. J. Mrs. John Guill, Secretary, Georgia Horticultural Society, 227 Maple Ave., G. H . Firor, Sec'y, Athens, Ga. T akoma Park. D. C. Georg-etown Garden Club, Talbot County Garden Club, Miss Katherine A. Dougal, Mr. James D'ixon, President, 3030 PSt., N. W ., North Bend, Easton, Md. Washington, D. C. Terrace P ark Garden Club, Hartweli Garden Cl ub, Mrs. W. L. Brilmayer, P.resident, Mr s. E. Brookbank, Milford, Ohio. 8321 Woodbin e Ave., T own and Country Garden Club, Cincinnati, O. Mrs. Wm. H enry Davis, Treasurer, Hyattsville H orticultural Society, 2508 Auburn Ave., Mrs. Charles E . H olmes, Librarian, Mt. Auburn, Cin cinnati , O. Riverdale, Md. Town and Country Ga rden Club of Cleve· Ind~a n Hill Garden Club, land, Mrs. W. H. W ood, Mrs. Robert Sattler, Pres., And erso n and Green Road, Varner Road, R. F. D. 1, Sta. M .. S. Euclid, Cleveland, O. Cincinnati , O. W inton Place Garden Club, Kennedy Heights Garden Club, Mrs. Otto Rosenfelter, President, Mrs. Grace Golay, Cor. Sec'y, 737 H ard Ave., W inton P lace, O. 6514 T yne Ave., Cincinnati, O. Woodridge Garden Club, Lake Forest Garden Club. Woodridge Library, Lake F orest, Ill. 2204 Rhode Island Ave., N. E., Lake Washington Garden Club, ·Washington, D. C. Mrs. Harvey L. Coe, President, Worcester County Horticultural Society, 3700 East Vall ey St., 30 Elm Street, Seattle, Wash. Worcester, Mass. [i 1 The National Horticultural Magazine Vol. 14 Copyright, 1935, by THE AM_ICAN HORTICVLTURAL SOCIET'Y No.1 JANUARY, 1935 CONTENTS Plants of New Zealand Grown in California. By KATHERI NE D. JO NES ._______ 1 The Second Gentleman Farmer. By MILDRED DEA N____________________________________ 59 The Large F lowered Clematis Hybrid. By J. E. SPINGARN __________________________ 64 A Boo k 0 r Two __ ______________________________________________________ __ __________________________________________ 92 The Gardener's Pocketbook: Maroon-Throated Erythronium. GRACE B. GRIFFETH-_____________________________ 93 Rhododendron japonicum. C. G. BOWERS ___ ___ ___ _________________________________________ 93 Helianthus angustifolius. J. MARION S HULL___ _______________________________________ 96 Geranium sanguineum var. album. I-lELEN M. Fox__________________________________ 98 Lilium callosum. H ELEN M. Fox ______________________________________________________________ 100 A Colorful T ri p ____________________________________________________________________ .. ______________________ 100 Bamboos. AGNES FALES H UN TI NGTON________________ .. ___________________________________ 100 Pears in the Garden. H. H. EVERETT ________________ _. ________________________________ __ __ 102 S yri nga M eyeri -- __ ____________________________________________ __ ____ ... ___ __________ ______________ _____ __ __ 104 Publis hed quarterly by The A mcrican H ortic ultura l Socie t y. Publication ollice, 1918 Harford Ave., Ba!t imore, .Md. EditOl-i a l office, R oom 821, W.ashington Loan and Trus t Bu.ilcLing , Was hing ton, D . C. ContnbutlOns from a ll m embe rs a re cord ia ll y inv ited "-nd s hould be sent to the E ditoria l ~ffi ce . AdvertiSing Manager, M r. J. S. Elms, Ken s ing ton , Md. A s ubscription to the magazine is Included 111 th e a nnual dues of all m embers; to non-mem be r-s the price is seventy -five cen ts the copy , three doll a rs a year. [ii] Plants of New Zealand Grown in California By KATHERINE D. JONES Once Californians were challenged by a man from New Zealand in the following words: "New Zealand holds within its tide-swept margins the greatest variety of inspiring scenery in the smallest compass known in the world. It has charm peculiarly its own. and in many respects it is better than California at its very finest. Some of its natural marveb are unsurpassed, such as its majestic mountains, snow-clad peaks, glacier-carved canyons, noble rivers, lovely lakes, lofty waterfalls, great gushing geysers, beetling ocean cliffs and gigantic trees." The 1915 Panama-Pacific Interna dens in Golden Gate Park and many tional Exposition brought New Zea of them in Berkeley and Santa Bar laud plants persistently before Cali bara. Still they seem to have their fornians in large numbers as living limitations as some of them attract plants were brought over a year or mealy bugs, some are tender and two before the exposition site was others short-lived (Veronicas). ready for them and they were nursed A new interest in New Zealand along in the exposition nursery and plants may again be started if the pro also in the McRorie and McLaren posed project of sending a fresh im nursery at San Mateo. These plants portation of New Zealand plants to the attracted a great deal of attention at coming exposition at San Diego can be the time because they were unusuai han die d by some nurseryman in and totally different from the Austral Southern California; and thus give ian plants we had been accustomed to that part of the State the benefit of seeing in California. We watched the their living plants to start from cut plants throughout the seven months tings. of the exposition and then again after Gardeners