The NATIONAL HOR TICULTURAL MAGAZINE JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OCTOBER, 1936 The American Horticultural Society PRESENT ROLL OF OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS April 16, 1936 OFFICERS President, First Vice-President, Mr. B. Y. Morrison, Washington, D. C. Second Vice-President, Mrs. Fairfax Harrison, Belvoir, Fauquier Co., Va. Secretary, Mrs. Eugene Ferry Smith, Bethesda, Maryland Treasurer, F. J. Hopkins, Takoma Park, Maryland DIRECTORS Terms Expiring in 1937 Terms Expiring in 1938 Mrs. Mortimer Fox, Peekskill, N. Y. Mr. F. Lammot Belin, Washington, Mr. F. J. Hopkins, Washington, D. C. D. C. Mr. Armistead Peter IV, Washington, Mrs. Floyd Harris, Aldie, Va. D. C. Mrs. J. Norman Henry, Gladwyne, Pa. Mrs. Charles Walcott, Washington, Mrs. Clement S. Houghton, Chestnut D. C. Hill, Mass. Mrs. Silas B. Waters, Cincinnati, O. Mrs. Arthur Hoyt Scott, Media, Pa. THE NATIONAL HORTICULTURAL MAGAZINE Published by and for the Society B. Y. MORRISON, Editor CoNTRIBUTING EDITORS Mr. Alfred Bates Mr. Sherman D. Duffy Mr. Carl Purdy Dr. Clement G. Bowers Mrs. Mortimer J. Fox Mr. C. A . Reed Mrs. C. I. 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 1936 Alexandria, Virginia, Garden Club, Burleith Garden Club, Mrs. Charles Holden Mrs. Clara V. Mace, Pres., Rosemont 4617 Hunt Ave., Alexandria, Va. Chevy Chase, Md. American Amaryllis Society, Business Men's Garden Club Wyndham Hayward, Secretary, 125 Hillside Ave., Winter Park, Fla. Piedmont, Calif. American Fuchsia Society, Miss Alice Eastwood, Secretary, California Garden Club Federation, California Academy of Sciences, Miss E. Marlow, Lib., Golden Gate Park 992 S. Oakland, San Francisco, Calif. Pasadena, Calif. Bethesda Community Garden ~ub, Chestnut Hill Garden Club, Mrs. William Lee, Mrs. John H. Harwood, Pres., . 5622 Moorland Lane, 64 Dudley St., Bethesda, Md. Brookline, Mass. Publication Office, 32nd Street and Elm Avenue, Baltimore, Md. Entered as second· class matter January Zl, 1932, at the Post Office at BaltImore, Md., under the Act of August 24, 1912. Chevy Chase (D. C.) Garden Club, Ohio Associa-tion of Garden Clubs, Mrs. B. C. Kennedy, Pres., Mrs. Silas B. Waters, 5605 Chevy Chas Parkway, 2005 Edgecliff Point, Chevy Chas, D . C. Cincinnati, Ohio. Chevy Chase (Md.) Garden Club, Rock Garden Society of Ohio, Mrs. Richard F. Jackson, Pres., Mrs. Frank Garry, 3 Oxford S't., 5800 Wyatt Ave., Chevy Ohase, Md. Kennedy Heights, Cincinnati, Ohio. Cleve.Jand Garden Center, Takoma Horticultural Club, East Boulevard at Euclid Ave., Takoma Park, D. C. Cleveland, Ohio. The Columbus Garden Center, Dayton Garden Club, 480 E. Broad St., Garden Center, Colum!bus, Ohio. % Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio. The Federated Garden Club of Cincinnati and Vicinity, Detroit Garden Center, Mrs. Bart H . Hawley, Detroit Institute of Art, 242 Greendale Avenue, 5200 Woodward Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio. Detroit, Mich. The Lima Garden Club, Fauquier and Loudoun Garden Club, 402 S. Woodlawn Avenue, Mrs. John T. Cochran, Lima, Ohio. The Plains, Va. The Little Garden Clulb of Sandy Spring, Garden Center, Mrs. A. D. Farquhar, President, Grover Cleveland Park, Sandy Spring, Md. Buffalo, New York. The Rose Tree Gardeners, Garden Club of Kentucky, Mrs. Samuel Howe, Mrs. T. F. Roemele, Clemmonton P.O., 3214 Wren Road, Pine Valley, N. J. Louisville, Ky. The San Francisco Garden Club, Room 133, Fairmont Hotel, Garden Club of Ohio, San Francisco, Calif. Mrs. Frank B. Stearns, 15830 S. Park Blvd., Thursday Garden Club, Cleveland, Ohio. Miss Lucy Lucas, Secretary, 333 E. Main Street, Georgetown Garden Club, Spartanburg, S. C. Mrs. S. P. Thompson, 3247 R Street, N. W., Town and Country Garden Club, Washington, D. C. Mrs. Silas B. Waters, Pres., 2005 Edgecliff Point, Glendale Garden Crafters, Cincinnati, Ohio. Mrs. Fred Monroe, Pres., Glendale, Ohio. Town and Country Garden Club of Cleveland, Lake Washington Garden Club, Mrs. W. H. Wood, Mrs. Frederick A. Bungle, Anderson and Green Road, 9249 Seventh Ave., S. W., S. Euclid, Cleveland, Ohio. Seattle, Wash. Trowel Club, Magnolia Circle, Mrs. Theodore Joslin, Pres., 950 Bay St., N. E., 4934 Indian Lane, St. Petersburg, Fla. Washington, D. C. Newtonville Garden Club, Woodridge Garden Club, 70 Washington Park, Woodridge Branch Library, Newtonville, Mass. Washington, D. C. North Carolina Garden Club, Worcester County Horticultural Society, Miss C. S. Black, Chairman, 30 Elm Street, Wake Forest, N. C. Worcester, Mass. Northern Nut Growers Association, Washington Garden Club, Dr. G. A. Zimmerman, President, Mrs. H. Latane, President, 32 S. 13th St., 311 N. Washington St., Harrisburg, Pa. Alexandria, Virginia. [i) The National Horticultural Magazine Vol. 15 Copyright, 1936, by THE AMERICAN HORTIOULTURAL SOCIET'Y No.4 OCTOBER, 1936 CONTENTS Notes on Old F loral Decoratiolil. KATE DOGGETT BOGGs _______________________________ 223 On the History of the Introduction of W Gody P lants into North America. ALFRED REImER. Translated fr0111 the German by Ethelyn M. Tucker 245 A Book or Two ____________________________________________________________________ __ ______________________________ 258 The Gardener's Pocketbook: A Note on Lilium s%pe1,b$t111 ________ ______________________ ____ ________ ____________________ .____ 261 Clematis B oweri. J. E. SPINGARN __ ___________ _________ _____________________________________ 261 A Good Hedge Rose. MARY SELDEN ____________________________________________________ 262 A Garden Center _______________________ ..____ _____________________________________________________________ ___ 262 Six useful blue-toned irises. S. STILLMAN BERRY __________________________________ 262 S yring a 0 b tat a dilatata______________________________________________ _______________________________ _____ 264 N a1' cis sus, God 0 1phi n ____ ______ . ____________________________________________ __________________________ 266 P entstemon cobaea. __________ __ ____ _______________________________ ___ ____ _____________________________ 266 S y111 Plo cos p a11liculat a _________________________________________________________ ______ _______________ 268 An As te r 0 r Two____________________________ __ ____ _______ __ _____________ __ ________________________________ 268 C r 0 c~£s iridi fl orus ________________________________________ _________________________________________________ 270 Heleniums from European Gardens __________________ _________________________________________ _ 270 P hlo x a111 plifo lia ____________________ ______________________________ . ___ ________ ____________ ~____________ 272 Ghrysaruthem ums : C. 11'bOrifoliu111 274 C. i1q,dicU111 __________________________________________________________________________________ _____ 274 In p lanti ng 1i 1i, es __________________________________ ___ __ ___ ____ _______________________ ____ _____________ _____ 276 A llium amp 1e ctans ____ ___________________________ __________ ______ ____________________________________ 276 Shrubs as Ground -IGovers ___________ ____________________ ___ ______ _______ ___ ___ ______________________ 276 In d ex ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ______ ____________________ 281 Published quarteFly by The American Horticultural Society. Publication office, 32nd St. and Elm Ave., Baltimore, Md. Ecl itoriaJl office, Room 821 Washing ton Loan and Trus t Bldg. Washington, D . C. ContnbutlOns from a ll· members are cordiall y invited and s hould be sent to the Editorial o ffi ce. :,,>-dvertising Manager, Mr. J. S. E lms, Kensington, Md. A subscription t o the magazine is included 111 the annual dues to al1 membel"s; to l1 oll-mem,bers the prioe 15 seventy-five oen ts th e copy, tluee dollars a year. Iii] Notes on Old Floral Decoration KA TE DOGGETT BOGGS "And the Lord God planted a gar­ Jerusalem were outsi,de the walls, be­ den." Since childhood we have all cause the use of dung within the holy been thrilled by those myshc words, city was againSlt the Law, but there but are we aware that, according to was one famous rose Karden inside Miss Rohde, in the fir-st chapter of the walls during the time of the Genesis -the earliest garden plan is de­ prophets. scribed? Here we are told of four The Greek garden of Homer's day rivers which run in four directions. was more simple than the Eastern This foursquare plan with elaborations "Paradise," ·but, later, when dose con­ has persisted to a remarkable degree tact was estaiblished between East and and seems by its balance and adapta­ West, the Greeks used more complex bility to have satisfied alike the eastern plans. ruler for his "Paradise" and the mod­ In Rome, during the Empire, gar­ ern woman for her village dooryard. den cmft rose to such tremendous More than three thousand years ago, heights of elaboration that Rome was the kings and nobles of Egypt and called the garden of the world. Shears Ba:bylonia made pleasure grounds to were used ruthlessly on shrubs and charm their leisure hours and we are trees and so we find topia.ry work car­ astonished to learn of the magnitude ried to absurd lengths, even before the and splendor of these enclosures of the Christian era. Many temples, seats ancients. Rare trees and herhs were and statutes decorated the estates of brought long distances to beautify the wealthy, some of these being spoils their gardens, while streams or canals of Greece and others copies of the for irrigation were a