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Boaters enjoy Central Park Lake in New York City, where the American Horticultural Society will hold its 42nd Annual Meeting, May 13-16, 1987. For more information, see page 20. AIlS 1987 Awards Announcement ighlighting the 42nd Annual developed a triangular-shaped ship Meeting of the American ping carton for small potted plants H Horticultural SOCiety, to be that eliminated damage problems. He held May 13-16 in New York, New also helped lead the effort to have York, will be two awards ceremonies, the rose designated as our national honoring the extraordinary horticul floral emblem. tural achievements of fourteen indi Mr. Charles D. Webster will re viduals, one corporation and one ceive the Catherine H. Sweeney family. Award for his extraordinary and ded Friday evening, May 15, will be de icated efforts in the field of horticul voted exclusively to recognizing the ture. More than any other individual, entire Rockefeller family and its tre Mr. Webster is responsible for the mendous commitment to developing existence of the Horticultural Society national parks and public gardens of New York, for which he is cur that all Americans might eojoy. (For rently Chairman of the Board. He has more information, see the photo and served in this capacity for three caption on the back cover.) years; prior to that time, he served as The Society's annual awards cere President for over 20 years. Webster mony will be held on Saturday eve has worked tirelessly to promote the ning, May 16. The Society's highest Society and its programs. As Chair honor, the Liberty Hyde Bailey man of the Cloisters Garden Commit Liberty Hyde Bailey Medal winner the Award, will be presented posthu late Thomas H. Everett tee and AdviSOry Board Member, Mr. mously to Mr. Thomas H. Everett. Ac Webster has worked to complete and cepting the award for Mr. Everett will the finest gardens of its kind in renovate the medieval gardens. He be Miss Harriet Everett, his sister. North America. He instructed and has served on numerous committees, Throughout his long career, lectured about horticulture and gar written articles, judged flower shows, Thomas Everitt earned an interna dening, judged flower shows and an and served as horticultural ambassa tional reputation as an outstanding swered gardening questions for dor for over 40 years. horticulturist, author, lecturer, educa home and flower garden magazines, tor and consultant. A distinguished and for the New York Herald member of the staff of the New York Tribune. Botanical Garden since 1932, he is Mr. Everett was honored with nu perhaps best known for his efforts in merous awards in his lifetime, compiling The New York Botanical among them the New York Botanical Garden Illustrated Encyclopedia of Garden Distinguished Service Award, Horticulture. Mr. Everett was also re the Medal of Honor of The Garden sponsible for the Thompson Memor Club of America, and the Massachu ial Rock Garden at the NYBG, one of setts Horticultural SOCiety's Thomas Roland Medal for skill in horticul George E. Rose Charles D. Webster ture. The Society is pleased to honor the memory of this distinguished The Commercial Award (Com horticulturist with the Liberty Hyde pany) will be presented to Fred C. American Bailey Award. Gloeckner, Inc. , of New York, in rec Mr. George E. Rose will be pre ognition of this company's pioneer Horticulturist sented the G.B. Gunlogson Award for ing introduction of countless new his creative use of new technologies, products into the floriculture indus VOLUME 66 NUMBER 1 which have made gardening in Amer try, and of its efforts to promote and PUBLICATIONS DIRECTOR: Barharo W. Ellis. EDITOR: ica easier and more enjoyable. For support floricultural research. A Brooke Rus."elJ . ART DIRECTOR: Lvnn M. Lvnch. ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Brian C. Little. AssISTANT TO T1fE 23 years, Mr. Rose was the driving The company was founded in De EDITOR: Martha Palermo. MEMBERSHIP DIRECTOR: Sa llie Hutcllt::son. ADVERTISING: Cindy We-Jklanu. force behind the testing and publiCity cember of 1934 by Fred C. Gloeck Addrt:s.-; all edito rial correspo ndence to : The Editor, programs for All-American Rose Se ner, his father, and Leonard Seiger of American Horticulturist, American Horticultural the Robert Craig Company in Phila Society, Box 0105, Mount Vernon, Virginia 22121. lections. Today, he serves as Execu AM ERICAN HO IITI CU L11JRlST. ISSN 00964417, is puhlished tive Director of that organization. delphia. The firm currently does mo nthly by the: Am eriC"..tn HOr1iculturd l Society. 793 1 Ea.'i( B() ul ~a rd Drive. AJexandria, Virginia 2230H, 703-7&i-S700. Mr. Rose helped to develop poly business in all 50 states and through OUtS for mem l">t:rship in the Society stan :.n $2'; per yea r, 1 12 ethylene coated wrapping paper, a out the world. of which is For AM ERI CAN HO IITICUL11JIUST. Co py ri ~ ht © 1987 h" (he American HonicuhurJI Sucierv. The American tremendous boon for the mail order The Fred C. Gloeckner Founda H () n ic ~hurJ I Society is a non-profit organizati on. plant bUSiness; it greatly reduces tion, Inc. , was formulated by Gloeck Contrihutions an: deductible for income tax purposes. Second-class postage paid at AIt:xandria, Virginia and at shipping weights while at the same ner in 1960, in order to give some alklitional mailing ()m Ct~s . Postmaster: Plea'it! send Form time preserves the proper amount of thing back to the industry by 3S79 to AMERICAN HO IITI CUL11JRI!iT , Box OlOS, Mo unt Ve rnon, Virginia 22 121. moisture during shipping. He also insuring its future through the sup- The Charm of Old Roses for Your Garden
Allen HaskeU Elizabeth C. Hall Joan Lee Faust Alice W. Burlingame port of meaningful research. Since publicati ons as a research associate, 1961, the foundation has provided delivered lectures to groups through over $1,000,000 in grants to qualified out the country, and has had many of researchers. her articles published in prominent The primary credit for the com library and gardening periodicals. pany's success must go to Fred Even after her retirement in 1967, Gloeckner himself; his energy, enthu Miss Hall continued to serve the hor siasm, encouragement, wisdom, fi ti cultural community by volunteering nancial assistance and friendship at both the Horticultural Society of Rare and unusual roses ... over have aided countless growers during New Yo rk and the NYBG. 230 varieties. Our 80 page diffi cult times, and have strengthened In the horticultural arena, The New deSCriptive catalog is full of the very industry itself. York Times is well-known for its history and detailed gardening Mr. Allen Haskell , a fine plantsman timely, informative gardening articles, information. Send only $2.00. whose garden designs astound the written by top-notch writers. It is public, is slated to receive the Com therefore appropriate that the Society mercial Award (Individual). Haskell award The Times and its garden edi continuously wins ribbons and med tor, Ms. Joan Lee Faust, with the Hor 802-4 Brown's Valley Road als at the most prestigious fl ower ti cultural Writing Award. Ms. Faust as Watsonville, CA 95076 shows in the U.S. He has been an ex signs and edits weekly garden-page hibitor in the Massachusetts Horticul features and writes a garden feature tural Society Spring Flower Show for for the Home section every Thurs 33 years, and has won 28 gold med day, as well as a weekly garden col als. His garden center houses an ex umn in the Arts and Leisure section. traordinary collection of plants and She is author of the bestseller, The topiary, and was itself awarded a New York Times Book of House gold medal by the Pennsylvania Hor Plants, as well as The New York ticultural Society. Testimonies to Has Times Book of Vegetable Gardening kell 's skills may be seen in several and, more recently, The New York lovely private gardens that grace the Times Book of Flower Gardening. (Merck) eastern United States, as well as in Alice W. Burlingame is considered an "example garden" at Longwood by many to be the first horticultural Landscape Design Gardens in Kennett Square, therapist. Combining knowledge Workshop Pennsylvania. gained from a degree in social work August 1-22, 1987 A graduate of Columbia Universi and a master's degree in horticulture John Brookes - British designer, author ty's School of Library Service (M.Se. , and landscaping, Burlingame estab of The Garden Book, Room Outside, 1936), Miss Elizabeth C. Hall has con lished a horticultural therapy pro international lecturer. tributed over 50 years of distin gram at Clinton Valley, a state mental James van Sweden - ASIA creator of guished service to horticultural and health hospital in Pontiac, Michigan, "New Romanticism" in landscaping, botanical libraries. The Society will in 1951. The program has grown extensive use of grasses & perennials. recognize this energetic woman and through the years, and was strength Geraldine Weinstein - former Director her dedication to horticultural infor ened by volunteer and scholarship of Horticulture New York City, Harvard mation by awarding her the Horticul opportunities developed by Burlin lecturer. design consultant. tural Communication Award. game. University and national interest Live, work, and study atthe magnificent Through her work at the Horticul and participation in horticultural Chateau de La Napoule on the French Riviera. Comprehensive program in tural Society of New York and the therapy as a discipline has also in landscape design. New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) creased, largely due to dedicated libraries, Miss Hall has aided count people like Burlingame who have in Noele M. Clews, Director less people with her highly profes itiated programs in corrections insti LANDSCAPE DESIGN WORKSHOP 799 South Street sional service. She has worked on tutes, vocational schools and hos Portsmouth, NH 03801 USA numerous botanical and horticultural pices for the terminally ill. Telephone: (603) 436-3040
AMERICAN HORTICULTURIST. 3 ANNOUNCING Burlingame continues to spread for many years. Currently an AHS the word about gardening and horti Board Member, she has served in cultural therapy through a gardening various capacities, ranging from Sec column she writes for a county news retary to First Vice President, since paper in Birmingham: Michigan. She 1979. Her commitment to horticul co-authored a book with Dr. Donald ture is apparent in the number of or R. Watson, professor of ornamental ganizations she serves. Corning has horticultural at Michigan State Uni been President of the Garden Club versity, entitled, Therapy Through of America and the Berkshire Garden Horticulture, and later wrote a book Center. She has served on the Board entitled Hoe for Health. The Society of Directors for the New York Botan is pleased to award this compassion ical Garden, and is the current Presi ate woman with its Horticultural dent of George Landis Arboretum in Therapy Award. Esperance, New York. It seems that a love of horticulture runs in Corning's family; Corning's mother, Dorothy Platt, received the Amateur Award from the Society in 1969, at the Phila delphia Annual Meeting. The Landscape Design Award will be presented to Mrs. Rachael Lam bert Mellon, whose imagination and Designed for creativity have shaped gardens in such diverse places as the White the Subutban House, Jacqueline Onassis's summer Carl A. Totemeier Mrs. Erastus home on Martha's Vineyard and Hu Homeowner Corning, II • Wipe out harmful bugs in your garden bert de Givenchy's chateau, Le Jon (without eliminating the beneficial Mr. Carl A. Totemeier will receive chet, in France. One of the first gar insects). the Society's Local Horticulture dens she designed for someone • Clear your yard of mosquitoes, gnats, yellow jackets, etc. Award, which is given each year to outside her family was that of de • Eliminate dandelions and other weeds an individual or group who has con Signer Hattie Carnegie. Since that from your lawn. tributed to the improvement or ex time, Mrs. Mellon has designed • Protect your fruit trees from borers, cellence of horticulture in the city countless private and public land maggots, miners, rusts, scab, etc. that is hosting the Society's Annual scapes. She is classed by designer This versatile, all-new portable Spray Meeting. Totemeier has been contin Mate'" was designed by the same com I.M. Pei as "among the best profes pany who made the Mantis® Tiller/ uously active in New York's horticul sionals," for her combination of sen Cultivator #1 in America. tural circles for over 10 years. He Sitivity, imagery and technical Look at these outstanding features: . guided the programs of two impor knowledge . • Silent, baHery-powered electric tant horticultural institutions in the Mr. Francis deVos will receive the motor. greater New York area, first as Direc SOCiety's Professional Award for his • Professional diaphragm pump shoots a jet up 25 feet or morel tor of Bayard Cutting Arboretum in work in developing outstanding pro • Big, 12-gallon polyethylene tank. Oakdale, New York and next as Di grams at the National Arboretum, the • Smooth-rolling 16" rubber tired rector of Old Westbury Gardens, Inc. , Chicago Botanic Garden and the Min wheels. in Old Westbury, New York. Cur nesota Landscape Arboretum, from 3-WEEK HOME TRIAL rently Vice President for Horticulture which he recently retired as Director. Use the Mantis Spray Mate for a full 3 at the New York Botanical Garden, in In addition to his Directorship du weeks. Then, if you're not 100% delighted, Bronx, New York, Totemeier has be ties, deVos has lectured at local, re send it back for a prompt, no-quibble come an influential figure in New gional and national meetings, and refundl York's horticultural community. He has written a wide vatiety of articles Arrange now for a FREE 3-week trial this spring! has served on the Boards of the of a semi-technical nature on plants. American Association of Botanical He has been responsible for the or Gardens and Arboreta and the New ganization of research programs that York Chapter of the American Rho have led to the development of new dodendron Society, and as President of hybrids for the nursery trade. DeVos the Long Island Horticultural Society. served as a Director of the American ~mm5J 5PRAYMATE The Meritorious Service Award, Horticultural Society from 1966 to I.r;;NTIS MANUFACTURING CO. I which recognizes the outstanding 1968 and as President of the Ameri 1458 County Line Road, Dept. P31017 Huntingdon Valley, PA 19006 I and exemplary service of a member can" Association of Botanical Gardens I o RUSH details on the Mantis Spray Mate and or friend who supports the American and Arboreta from 1967 to 1969. FREE Long-Life Battery with Charger. I Horticultural Society's goals, services The Society's Scientific Award, I Name and activities, will be awarded to which recognizes an individual who I A~reu I Mrs. Erastus Corning, II. Mrs. Corn has enriched horticulture through City ______ing has been devoted to the Society outstanding and notable research, L S.!!:, __---- Zip _ J
4 • JANUARY 1987 by the American Rhododendron Soci headquarters in Purchase, New York, ety for outstanding work in rhodo PepsiCo, Inc., has created a spectacu dendron breeding and research, and lar public garden interspersed with a Gold Medal by the American Or 20th-centu ry sculpture. The head chid Society for outstanding contri quarters is an incredibly lovely and butions to hybridizing, geneti cs and harmonious combinati on of architec education. ture, landscape design, and sculpture, Ms. Eli zabeth Ba rl ow Rogers will and combines the talents of such receive the Urban Beautificati on greats as Edward Durrell Stone, Ru s Award (Individual), presented fo r sig sell Page and Henri Laurens. It sets a nificant contributions to urban ho rti prime example for corporate patron Francis deVos Dr. Gustav A. L. Mehlquist culture. Ms. Rogers has dedicated her age of the arts, and as Donald M. life to restoring all 843 acres of Cen Kendall , Chairman of PepsiCo's Exec will be awarded to Dr. Gustav A. L. tral Park. She has organized a volun utive Committee, stated, it kindles Mehlquist. Dr. Mehlquist has been a teer force of 2,000 workers, which the public's interest, and offers them horticultural researcher, writer and has repaired paths; painted benches; "something clari fy ing to help them educator for more than fi fty years. installed new lamps and fo untains; grow. " He has worked at UCLA, the Missouri established a green meadow; and Botanical Garden, Washington Uni pl anted 500 new trees, 30,000 new versity and the University of Connect shrubs and 130,000 fl owers. In addi icut, from which he retired in 1976. ti on, 40,000 square feet of graffiti He is an internati onally known and have been removed. The va lu e of Erratum respected authority on many plant such work to the people of New groups, and as professor emeritus, Yo rk is immeasurable ; Central Park is In the October 1986 issue of Ameri he continues his research on orchids, one of Ame rica 's most-used and best can H orticulturist magazine, two delphiniums and rhododendrons. Dr. appreciated public parks. photographs within the article "The Mehlquist also helped to work out The PepsiCo corporati on will re Gardens at Moggy Ho llow" were mis the genetics of white cattl eyas. His ef ceive the Urban Beautificati on Cita credited. The photos, found on pages forts have provided extremely valua ti on (Commercial) for its innovati ve 16 and 20, should have been cred ble informati on to commercial grow integrati on of a garden into a corpo ited to Ruby Weinberg. We apologize ers. He was awarded a Go ld Medal rate setting. At its 144-acre world to Mrs. Weinberg for these errors.
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AMERICAN HORTICULTURIST • 5 Gardener's Dateline
January 6-9 International Garden Trade Fair RAI Exhibition Centre, Amsterdam, Hol land. Information: Amsterdamrai, rai ge bouw, bv, Europaplein , 1078 GZ Amster dam, Holland, phone 020/5 411 411.
January 12-16 Gordon Research Conference: "Temperature Stresses in Plants" Channel Islands Harbor, California. Infor mation: Stephen]. Wallner, Dept. of Hor ticulture, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, (303) 491-7110
January 22-26 World Federation of Rose Societies Mini-Conference Rose Society of Bermuda. St. George, Bermuda. Information: Far Horizons, Inc. , 600 Central Ave., Suite 390, Highland Park, IL 60035, (312) 831-6671.
January 24-March 9 Exhibition: "Springtime in Winter: Colossal Watercolors by Gary Bukovnik" Co-sponsored by Gallery Two Nine One & Atlanta Botanical Garden. Atlanta, Georgia. Information: Ms. Lisa Frank, At lanta Botanical Garden, Piedmont Park at The Prado, Box 77246, Atlanta, GA 30357, (404) 876-5858.
January 30-February 8 Vancouver Home & Garden Show February 11-15 February 21-23 Midwest Flower, Garden & Outdoor Ark-La-Tex Home & Garden Show Exhibition Park, Vancouver, British Co Living Show lumbia. Information: Nelson B. Groves, Exposition Hall, Shreveport, Louisiana. Suite 202-2695 Granville St., Vancouver, Omaha Civic Auditorium, 1804 Capitol Information: Mr. Charles G. Page, Route B.C V6H 3H4, (604) 736-3331. Ave., Omaha, Nebraska. Hours: Wednes #3, Box 12, Gravois Mills, MO 65037, day & Thursday, 5 to 9 p.m.; Friday & (314) 372-2277. Saturday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Sunday, 11 February 6-15 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission: Adults, $3.75; February 25-March 1 Colorado Garden & Home Show Children (3 to 12), $1.75. Information: Calgary Home and Garden Show Currigan Exhibition Hall, Denver, Colo Lutheran Medical Center, 515 South 26th Round-Up Center/Stampede Park, Calgary, rado. Information: Industrial Expositions, St., PO Box 3434, Omaha, NE 68103, Alberta, Canada. Information: Nelson B. Inc. , PO Box 1238,4851 Independence, (402) 536-6399. Groves, Western Manager, Suite 202-2695 Suite 121 , Wheat Ridge, CO 80033, (303) Granville St., Vancouver, B.C V6H 3H4, 422-3444. (604) 736-3331. February 12-15 Iowa Home and Garden Show February 26-27 February 8-12 Veterans Memorial Auditorium, 833-5th Conference: "Erosion Control-An National Arborist Association Annual Ave., Des Moines, Iowa. Hours: Thurday Investment In Our Future" Meeting to Saturday, 12 to 10 p.m.; Sunday, 12 to International Erosion Control A~sociation. Marriott's Marco Beach Hotel, Marco Is 8 p.m. Admission: Adult~ , $3.50. Informa Nuggett Hotel, Sparks, Nevada (Reno land, Florida. Information: The National tion: Richard E. Engebretson, Trade area). Information: IECA Executive Direc Arborists Association, Inc., 174 Route 101 , Shows, Inc., 15235 Minnetonka Blvd. , tor, PO Box 195, Pinole, CA 94564, (415) Bedford, NH 03102, (603) 472-2255 Minnetonka, MN 55345, (612) 933-3850 223-2134.
6 • JANUARY 1987 February 27-March 8 March 7-15 Cleveland Home & Flower Show The New York Flower Show: Salute Cleveland Public Hall/Convention Center to Spring Complex, Cleveland, Ohio. Hours: Open The New York Passenger hip Terminal ing Day, 4 to 11 p.m.; Friday & Saturdays, Pier 90, 55th St. and the West Side High 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.; Monday to Thursday, way, New York, New York. Hours: 10 a.m. 11 a. m. to 10 p.m.; Su ndays, 11 a.m. to 8 to 5 p.m. Adm ission: Ad ults, $6, Advanced p.m. Admission: Advance tickets (adults sale to groups (10 or more), $5; Children and children ages 7 to 12), $3.50; Adult 4 to 12, $3 (under 3, free). Information: ticket~ at box office, $5.00. Group sales The Horticultural Society of New York, and other information: Home & Fl ower 128 W. 58th Street, New York, NY 10019. Show, 118 St. Clair Ave. , Cleveland, OH 44114, (216) 621-3145. March 8-15 Philadelphia Flower Show February 28-March 8 Philadelphia Civic Center, 34th St. & Civic Southern Spring Show Center Blvd., Philadelphia, Pennsylvan ia. Charlotte Merchandise Mart, Charlotte, Hours: Su ndays, 10 a. m. to 6 p.m.; Mon 41st Annual North Carolina. Information: Robe rt E. day to Saturday, 10 a. m. to 9:30 p.m. Ad Zimmerman, President, Southern Shows, mission: General, $7.50; Children unde r Williamsburg Inc., PO Box 36859, 630 South Graham 12, $3.75; Advance (before February St., Charlotte, NC 28236, (704) 376-6594; 27th), $6.75. Information: Pe nnsylvania in N.C. , 1-800-532-0189; outside of N.C. , Horticultural SOCiety, 325 Wa lnut Street, Garden (800) 334-0248. Philadelphia, PA 19106, (215) 625-8250. Symposium February 28-March 8 Central Ohio Home & Garden Show March 9-11 SympOSium: "The lnfluence of Land April 5-8, 1987 Ohio State FairgroundslMulti-Purpose Use Pattern on Landscape Function: Building, Columbus, Ohio. Hours: Satur Ecology Theory and Management days, 12 to 10 p.m. ; Sundays, 12 to 6 p.m.; Implications" "The Gardener's Year - Weekdays, 4 to 10 p.m. Admission: Adu lts, Uni versity of Virg inia, Charl ottesville, Vir The Seasonal Nature of our $4.50; Children, $100. Information: Rob Trials and Trium.phs" will be ert S. Hart, Jr., Producer, Hart Produc gi nia. Hours: 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Regis tration: General, $30; Students, $20. Infor the theme of the prestigious tions, Inc. 11 72 W. Galbraith Road, Suite 216, Cincinnati, Ohio 45231 , (513) 522- mation: Dr. Wi lliam E. Odum, Dept. of annual horticultural gather Envi ronmental Sciences, Clark Hall , Uni 1987. 7330. ing in Williamsburg in ve rSity of Vi rginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903, (804) 924-0560. Authorities from the Uni March 4-8 ted States and abroad will dis Minnesota Home & Garden Show cuss annuals, perennials, Minneapolis Auditorium & Convention March 11-15 grasses, roses, herbs, and Hall, 3rd and 15th Street, Minneapolis, Nashville Lawn & Garden Fair hostas. Practical and enter Minnesota. Information: Richard E. Enge Co-sponsored by Nashville Exchange taining presentations, tours, bretson, Trade Shows, Inc., 15235 Minne Club and Ga rden Clubs of Nashville. Ten exhibits, and clinics will aug tonka Blvd. , Minnetonka, MN 55345, (612) nessee State Fairgrounds, Nashville, Ten ment talks by Roger Swain, 933-3850 nessee. Hours: Wednesday to Saturday, Holly Shimizu, William Carl 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.; Sunday, 10:00 son, Paul Rogers, Sam Jones, March 4-8 a. m. to 6:00 p.m. Admission: Adult~ , $4; and other visiting specialists. New York Flower & Antiques Show Children and Senior Citizens, $3; Student discount; Children unde r 6, free. Infor Colonial Williamsburg's hor Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. Infor mation: Frank Crowell , Nas hville Lawn & ticultural staff will partici matio n: Westchester Ente rprises, Inc., PO Garden Fair, PO Box 50063, Nashvil le, TN pate fully in the Symposium.. Box 717, Rye, NY 10538, (914) 698-3442. 37205, (615) 331-1212. r------March 5-8 For information, mail this coupon to: Metropolitan Louisville Home March 11-15 Garden Symposium. Registrar Aviv Flower Expo Garden & Flower Show The
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8 • JANUARY 1987 Measuring Roots' Muscle Pawer Water Gardening Symposium The American Horticultural SOciety, in cooperation with the Water Lily April !.J & 5, 1987 As plant roots grow toward water Society, is sponsoring an in-depth 9:30 a.m.-!.J:OO p.m. and nutrients, they exert pressures of symposium on all aspects of water National Wildlife up to 150 pounds per square inch, gardening: deSign, construction and often splitting granite boulders and Federation maintenance; new plants; companion upheaving sidewalks and streets in 8925 Leesburg Pike plants; waterfalls; lighting; and the process. U.S. Department of Agri Vienna, VA Japanese Koi and other exotic [tSh. culture scientists are studying root pressure and growth in order to . For more information, please write to: Water Gardening Symposium, AHS, breed plants that can better penetrate PO Box 0105, Mt. Vemon, VA 22121. compacted or dry soils. For these studies, the scientists invented special research tools, including a miniature pressure gauge less than five-mil lionths of an inch in diameter to re cord pressure inside individual root cells, and sensitive rulers to meas ure root growth--often less than one thirty-second of an inch per hour. These tools have allowed detection in growing root tips of minute pres sure changes caused by the plant's response to its environment, and give scientists some indication of the roots' muscle power.
Fanners' Futures May Be Flowery
By now, most people are familiar with the plight of the American 23E9i12 YOU7. ~l7atn 9aJE12 today with a ..fH /20 IH catal0 UE farmer. But few people know that Y 9 farmers' recent efforts to diversify fEatu7.il29 /2~E aftE7. /2a9E of GEautiful wah, lifiEi, lotui, G09 have in some cases paid off. In many /2Ial2tj, fiih, itatua'tfj' and thE EHEl2tiali f07. kEE/2i129 it all w07.k i129 parts of this country, farmers are t09d hE7.. turning to specialty crop producti on in order to survive. One of the areas .iV0 /2001? ChOOiE a fiGn9lajj ot gJ«/C /2001 fwm thE many i izEi in which traditional farmers in the ihOWI2 in thE .ijlY/20IH catal09uE. northeast have been very successful is in raising cut flowers for harvest. According to Steve Taylor, a dairy D Please send the new Lilypons catalogue plus informative farmer who is New Hampshire's newsletters with seasonal sales. Enclosed is $4 .00. commissioner of agriculture, Maryland (20¢) and Texas (21 ¢) residents please add tax. "There's no crop in New Hampshire D Please rush my catalogue by first class mail. Enclosed is $5.50. that produces more income for our farmers than cut flowers . .. " Even D 1500 Amhort Road D 1500 Lilypons Road though this particular crop is so suc P.O. Box 10 P.O. Box 188 cessful, northeastern farmers still Lilypons, MD 21717-0010 Brookshire, TX 77423-0188 can't seem to produce enough to sat (301) 874-5133 (713) 934-8525 urate the market. According to Tay lor, flowers from Holland continue to arrive by air on a daily basis. l'Xame Address -excerpted from 'Troubled Farmers Find Survival in Diversity," by Ward City S tate Zip Sinclair, the Washington Post, Octo ------~ ber 27,1986
AMERICAN HORTICULTURIST • 9 Mentbership New Publications • The Tree Worker. This monthly Services newsletter for field personnel in the tree industry is produced by the Na tional Arborist Association (NAA). Each issue covers technical material, safety information, customer rela tions, tips for personnel relations as well as news items from the field. Ac cording to the NAA, the newsletter offers more than just information, it will complement efforts to increase productivity and professionalism among workers. Single subscriptions Your satisfaction with our service is very are available for $12 per year. Multi important to us. If you have a question or ple subscriptions (for classrooms or problem concerning your membership, corporations, for example) are avail please contact our Membership Depart able on a sliding fee scale according ment for assistance. to number.ordered;lrates are available on request. For further information, You can help us by giving complete infor write the National Arborist Associa mation when you call or write. Please re tion, Inc., 174 Route 101, Bedford fer to the mailing label on your monthly Station-Box 238, Bedford, NH magazine. It has the information we need 03102. Day sells for $13.63, including tax; to solve the problem as quickly as bulk orders receive a discount. For possible. • How to Grow Better Day by further information, write How to Day Gardener's Guide. Sponsored Grow Better Day by Day, P.O. Box Your Membership Expiration Date by the Garden Study Club of New 15800 (Station B), New Orleans, LA 8701 = January 1987 Orleans and the New Orleans Town 70175. Your Membership Number Gardeners, the only Louisiana mem 22303HUTCHS262X bers of the Garden Club of America, Your Name, Address, Zip Code this new publication-a calendar and • Sources of Shade Trees in the book combined-deals specifically United States-1986. Attention with the unique growing conditions landscape architects, landscape de Cbange of Address of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast signers, nurserymen, extension Please give us 6 to 8 weeks notice. When region. The perennial calendar is 12 agents, urban foresters, horticultur possible, please include a moving date so by 18 inches when opened, and con iSts, educators, city officials, highway we don't change your listing too soon. tains concise, at-a-glance info rmation officials and homeowners! Here is a for each month on how to plan, new sourcebook, telling where Duplicate Copies plant, protect and feed the garden nearly 200 species of shade trees can Please send us both mailing labels and the mo nth by month. Two-color draw be bought in the U.S. The 148-page listings will be combined. ings illustrate the text. In addition, a circular is actually the third edition special back section contains overall of this manual, and compared to the Missing Issues year-round gUidelines fo r spraying 1983 printing, includes 50 new list If you fail to receive an issue we will send and fertiliZing, and timetables for se ings of nurseries, as well as an addi a replacement copy, or extend your mem lecting and planting annuals, peren tional 20 tree species. Species are bership, whichever you prefer. nials, bulbs, herbs and vegetables in listed by botanical name, with a com the area. Furthermore, a 24-page mon name included. (A cross-refer Mailing Lists book of charts, which fits handily in ence for common namelbotanical From time to time we exchange or rent side the back cover, contains advice name translations is provided in the our membership list to selected organiza by such leading horticulturists as front of the manual.) Nursery tions. If you would prefer not to receive Paul Soniat, Director for the New Or sources, arranged by state, follow mailings from other sources, please con leans Botanical Garden at City Park. each tree listing and a listing of nurs tact us. Informative lists of perennial favor ery names and addresses, also ar ites in the New Orleans area, vegeta ranged by state, is included in the .~ Membership Department bles and their suggested dates of back of the manual. S ~ American Horticultural Society planting, and recommended bulbs, This useful circular is published by ,.., P.O. Box 0105 corms, tubers and rhizomes for the the Ohio State University/Ohio Agri Mt. Vernon, VA 22121 area are included in the handy book cultural Research and Development (703) 768-5700 of charts. How to Grow Better Day by Center, and was co-authored by T.
10 • JANUARY 1987 Davis Sydnor, OSU horticulturist, and James R. Holman, OSU statistician. Free, single copies may be obtained by sending requests to the Mailing INTRODUCING . .. Room, Thorne Hall, OSU/OARDC, Wooster, OH 44691.
• Northwest Fuchsia Society Bul letin. Published on a monthly basis from March to December, this new regional newsletter serves the eleven fuchsia clubs under the umbrella of the Northwest Fuchsia Society. The clubs were formed in response to the growing interest in fuchsias in Washington state. The newsletter in cludes short pieces on fuchsia lore, reviews of books about fuchsias, clubs news, a calendar of events and, of course, tips on fuchsia propaga tion. Subscriptions are available to U.S. residents for $8 per year; inter national subscriptions are $10 per Mrs. .1..,&,,,",'-' "'"~"" ... s Teak Garden Boxes year. For further information, write Subscription Office, Northwest Fuch Teak garden boxes for indoor or outdoor use. sia Society, Bitter Lake Station, Box Call or write for detalls. 33071, Seattle, WA 98133. Ask for our "Gifts for Gardeners" catalog. 4801 First St. N., Dept. A , Arlington, VA 22203 liad. Inqulrles Welcomed 703-528-8773 • Canadian Horticultural His tory. A journal published by the Centre for Canadian Historical Horti cultural Studies, Canadian Horticul tural History includes original papers on the history of Canadian horticul Endangered Wil4flowers ture and related disciplines. Intro ductions and abstracts are presented in both French and English. Among 1987 CALENDAR other subjects, future articles in the journal will cover historical garden • Funds raised from sales will be used to To Order Calendars: restorations and reconstructions; his support conservation projects Send $6.95 per calendar; $6.25 for AHS tories of botanical gardens, arboreta, • 16 full -color photographs members. (For orders of 3 or more mailed experimental stations, commercial • Information on all plants pictured to the same address: $6.45, non-members; nurseries and seed firms; and ac • Large 8 W' by 11 W' format (8 W' by $5.75, AHS members.) Prices include counts of plant breeding work and 23" when open) postage and handling. Mail orders to plant explorations. Submission of • Reward offer: calendar owners are en Jeanne Eggeman, AHS, P.O. Box 0105, couraged to help rediscover populations Mt. Vernon, VA 22121. Virginia resi book reviews, shorter communica of plants thought to be extinct dents, please add 4% sales tax. tions and announcements of confer ences is encouraged. o My club or society would like to help sell the Endangered Wildflowers Calendar. The journal is illustrated with line Please send me information. drawings and black-and-white photo graphs and is approximately 70 pages N~e ______long. Subscriptions are sold by vol ume (a volume consists of four Addr~s ______issues) at the following rates: Institu tions, $18 ($20 for USA and over Ci~ ______seas); Individuals, $14 ($16 for USA and overseas); Single issue, $5. Sub State ______Zip ______scriptions may be obtained from the Royal Botanical Gardens (CCHHS), Price/Calendar ______Total # ordered ___ __ Box 399, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Amt. Enclosed $ ______AH-J L8N 3H8.
AMERICAN HORTICULTIJRIST • 11 Supportfor ToPiary in Tulcan AMERICAN Some of our readers may recall a forms, birds, and fantastic anthropo fairly recent article, which appeared morphic heads inspired by Pre-Co HORTICULTURAL in the April 1985 issue of American lombian culture. The sculpture is an SOCIETY Horticulturist ("Topiary in Tubin" unusual attraction for Ecuadorean by Charles B. Heiser, Jr.), describing and foreign visitors alike, and in May the incredible topiary garden at a 1984 the cemetery was declared a na omCERS 1986-1987 cemetery in Tuld.n, Ecuador. The tional monument. Mr. Everitt L. Miller garden's future was recently made Unfortunately, Franco died re Ken nel! Square, Pennsylvan ia President brighter as a result of a grant an cently, but fears that the topiary Mrs. Carolyn Marsh LincLsay nounced by the Undersecretary for would be allowed to deteriorate have Rochester, New York Culture in the Government of the Re been allayed. The grant was given to First Vice President public of Ecuador. Senor Benigno Salvador Franco, one Mrs. John M. Maury Washington, DC Created by Azael Franco, the three of Azael Franco's sons who has been Second Vice President acres of green sculptures found helping his father since the age of Mrs. Charles W. Allen, Jr. within the cemetery take various eight, and he will take over the care Glenview, Kentuckv SecretalJ' . shapes, including those of geometric of the sculptures. Mr. Ri(hard J. Hutton West Grove, Pennsl'lvania Treasurer ' Mr. Edward N. Dane Boston, Massachusetts OAGC Offers Scholarship immediate Past President The Ohio Association of Garden The amount of money awarded to BOARD OF DIRECTORS Clubs (OAGC), a Sponsoring Mem the reCipient of the scholarship will Mrs. Charles W. Allen, Jr. ber of the American Horticultural So be paid directly to the reCipient for Glenview, Kenrucky ciety, has announced that it will use in paying for tuition, fees, books Mr. Ri(hard C. Angino Harrisburg, Pennsylvania award up to $500 for an annual, one and related supplies. The recipient Gerald S. Band, M.D. time scholarship, available to quali must furnish receipts for such use Flemington, New Jersey fied candidates with an interest in before the end of the school year. Mrs. Benjamin P. Bole, Jr. studying horticulture, conservation, Applications for this year's scholar Cleveland, Ohio nature and beautification, landscape ship, to be granted to a student en Mr. J. JucLson Brooks Sewickley, Pennsylvania design, landscape contracting, com tering school in the fall of 1987, will Dr. Henry M. Cathey mercial floristry or floral design. Can be accepted until February I , 1987. Washington, DC didates must be accepted by an ac For complete information on selec Mr. Russell Clark credited college, university or tion criteria and application proce Boston, Massachusetts technical school in the state of Ohio. dures, write Mrs. D.o. Ferguson, Sec Mrs. Erastus Corning, D Albany; New York They need not be residents of the retary, 112 Juan Street, Milford, OH Mr. Ri(hardJ. Hutton state of Ohio, or OAGC members. 45151. West Grove, Pennsylvan ia Mr. Stephen F. Keating Minneapolis, Minnesota Mrs. Carolyn Marsh LincLsay Rochester, New York Tortola Botanic Gardens OPen Mrs. John M. Maury Washington, DC In a special ceremony set for Satur tained by members of the Botanic Mr. Everitt L. Miller day, January 24, 1987, the Tortola Bo Society of the British Virgin Islands. Kennett Square, Pennsylvania tanic Gardens in Road Town, Tortola Among the interesting collections in Mrs. Daniel Pier(e will be offiCially opened to the pub the gardens are the Palm, Cycad and Dedham, Massachusetts lic. Located on this island paradise in Lily Collection, the Succulent and Mrs. Fran(esJ.Poetker Cincinnati, Oh io the British Virgin Islands, the gardens Cacti Collection, the Heliconia Col Mrs. Edward King Poor, m cover just under five acres of land, lection and the Bamboo and Grass Winnetka, Illinois forming the last remaining part of Collection. The gardens have been Dr. Julia W. Rappaport the Government Experimental Agri declared a National Park under the Santa Ana , California cultural Station, which was first estab responsibility of the National Parks Mrs. Philip Temple Little Compton, Rhode Island lished nearly one hundred years ago. Trust. Mr. Roy G. Thomas Throughout this century, crops, fruit Members of the American Horti Woodstock, Vermont trees, palms and exotic plants of cultural Society participating in the Mrs. Harry J. Van de Kamp many kinds have been grown experi "Gardens in the Virgin Islands" Pasadena, California Mr. John H. Whitworth, Jr. mentally on these grounds for propa cruise and symposium, led by Paul New Yo rk, New York gation purposes. ina du Pont Dean and Carolyn and Mrs. Jean Verity Woodhull Under the supervision of Mrs. Mar Bob Lindsay, will have the unique Dal~on , Ohio garet Barwick, wife of His Excellency opportunity to represent the Society Dr. John A. Wott Seattle, Wash ington Governor David Barwick, the Botanic during special ceremonies to be held Gardens recently have been main- at the gardens.
12 • JANUARY 1987 I ~,~~ I The American Horticultural Society
Spain in Private SplenDor April 12·26, 1987 A land of great beauty and history, the very name Spain provokes one's imagination. Our visit will encompass the four corners of this magical country-Barcelona, Galicia, Grenada, Sevilla and, of course, time in Madrid. Since many of the country's most interesting gardens are privately owned, we have enlisted two of Spain's leading horticulturalists to help design this exceptional tour. Private is the best word to describe what we are offering: from Moorish castles, ducal palaces and monasteries to bullfights, country houses and city gardens, so much of what we will see will be opened to us exclusively. This trip will delight all those interested in such a fine blending of culture and horticulture. Capabilit;9 Brown S EnglanD & Tbe cbelsea Flower SGow May I8·June 1, 1987 The name Capability Brown is synonymous with the magnificent open parks and woodlands of England. His influence is also felt in some of the great houses and surrounding gardens which he was responsible for architecturally and aesthetically. Our two weeks which will include Press Day at the Chelsea Flower Show, will include visits to some of these 1reasure Houses, with private tours conducted by the owners or head gardeners, as well as tours of some smaller and more private estates, little known to the general public.
EmeralD GarDens of IrelanD June 4·18, 1987 A Tour Designed in Collaboration with Serendipity Tours Irish gardens have a wild and wonderful glory all their own. This trip is a romantic journey to some of the lost domains of Irish landscape as well as to the flourishing estates of today. The changing mood and character of the landscape will enchant us as much as our discovery of the variety and richness of the gardens we plan to visit. We begin in the Southwest with its dramatic views of sea and mountains touring gardens both natural and formal; and spend the last portion of our trip visiting such wonders as Mount Usher and Powerscourt in "The Garden of Ireland;' Dublin and County Wicklow.
Lost anD FounD: Formal GarDens of EnglanD June 17·July 2, 1987 Come to the mysterious world of England's 'Lost and Found Formal Gardens; ranging from the grandeur of Powis Castle in Wales, with its luxuriant Italian tumble of terraces, to the sundappled mystery of Melbourne, a 'forest garden' where glittering fountain jets sparkle at the end of treelined allees. We'll see the strange emblematic topiary garden at Packwood House in Warwickshire, with its yew 'Sermon on the Mount; and the coziest Thdor & Stuart manor houses, nestled in their flowery stripped brick and golden Cotswold stone enclosures. A special tour with Graham Stuart Thomas of his world famous old rose collection at Mottisfont Abbey is scheduled. Although most of the magical gardens of Renaissance and 17th century England were swept away by the improving hand of Capability Brown, Humphrey Repton, and other great exponents of the English 18th century landscape school, enough traces remained to inspire a revolution in 19th century England. Under the influence of Sir Walter Scott, many an old garden was revived and revised. Through such gardens, we'll be able to trace the little known history of England's fantastic formal gardens. These trips are sponsored by the American Horticultural Society.
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Curriculum incl udes information! $7.95 from NORTHWI ND FARM, Rte. botany, horticulture and landscape design. Work PARKS· PENTHOUSES 2, Box 246(A), Shevlin, MN 56676. experience is offered at the 250-acre Botanical Bulbous Plant Journal. HERBERTIA and Quar Garden and at othe r sites. Li censed by the New ft & WINDOWSILLS ft terly Newslette r. Color-fill ed articles on bulbs, York State Education Department. For catalogue Gdrdening in the City corms & tubers of Amaryllidaceae and related write: School of Horticulture, Education Build fa milies. $12IYear. APLS-AH, PO Box 150, LaJolla, ing, THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN, Bronx, AHS . NEW YORK· Iq87 CA 92038. NY 10458-5126 Or Ca ll : (212) 220-8739
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The American Horticultural Society is ments in science and the horticultural busi 600 species and 2,100 varieties and cultivars pleased to offer members its 13 best· ness, the book provides solid, comprehensive of conifers. Line drawings and black-and selling titles. Choose a new book for information on greenhouse management. A white photographs illustrate many of the must for anyone starting out in the business! taxa. Hardcover 865.00. AHS member price, your library, or select an old favorite to Hardcover, 839.95. AHS member price, 855.25. give a friend. 835.95. Hortus Third: A Concise Dictionary of Plants Visions of Paradise. Photography by Marina Taylor'S Guide to Perennials. Houghton Mif Cultivated in the United States and Canada. Schinz; Te}o.i by Susan Littlefield with Marina flin Company. 465 pages. Comprehensive The Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1,290 Schinz. 272 pages. A beautiful book on gar field-guide-style encyclopedia picturing fasci pages. Published in 1976, this remains the dens with Simply breathtaking photographs. nating perennials from allover the globe. classic reference guide to cultivated plants in Chapters illustrate various types of gardens Photographic encyclopedia organizes plants this country and Canada. Includes botanical and gardening important to the western by flower color or other outstanding features. descriptions of hundreds of genera and thou world. Accompanying text is fascinating and Photographs accompanied by brief notes on sands of species in cultivation. Some cultural enjoyable. A book no garden lover should be cultural preferences, height and flower size notes, a common name index and informa without. Hardcover, 839.95. AHS member and are linked to more extensive descrip tion on botanical nomenclature included. price, 834.45. tions in back of book. Extremely useful, Hardcover, 8125.00. AHS member price, color-coded flower charts also included. Soft 8117.00. The Ortho Problem Solver. 2nd Ed. Michael cover, 814.95. AHS membe!price, 813.45. D. Smith, Editor. 1,040 pages. Immensely ._------valuable reference book on disease and in Ball Red Book: Greenhouse Growing. 14th Order Form sect pests encountered by the home gar Ed. Vic Ball, Editor. 720 pages. Essential ref Price reflects AHS member discount dener. 000 pesticide information also in erence on all aspects of co=ercial produc o Visions of Paradise ...... 8 34.45 cluded. Hardcover 8179.95. AHS member tion of horticultural crops. Over 425 pages STEWA-0471O o The Ortbo Problem Solver ...... 8160.15 price, 8160.15. devoted to the cultural requirements of spe Clrn\~l·03150 cific crops. Hardcover, 826.95. AHS member The Wildflower Meadow Book. Laura C. Mar The Wildflower Meadow Book price, 822.65. o Hardcover ...... 8 17.05 tin. 360 pages. Practical and comprehensive EASTW.0456O guide to meadow gardening, published in co Color in Your Garden. Penelope Hobhouse. o SOft.cover...... 8 11.65 operation with the American Horticultural 239 pages. Very good introduction to the sub EASTW-04570 o Exotica IV...... 8175.90 SOCiety. Includes complete how-to instruc ject of color and its use in the garden. Brief ROEIIR-03570 tions, detailed regional information and a list history of the use of color in gardens and a o AHS Garden Diary ...... 8 9.95 of outstanding national organizations working detailed discussion of factors to keep in mind o Plants for Profit ...... 8 35.95 with cultivating wildflowers. Hardcover, when designing with color. The majority of ANDMA-05070 o Taylor'S Guide to Perennials ...... 8 13.45 818.95; Softcover, 812.95. AHS member the book is devoted to individual chapters on IIO UG U-04950 price, 817.05 (hardcover), 811.65 color groups. Stunning photographs through o Ball Red Book: Greenhouse Growing ...... $ 22.65 (softcover ). out. Hardcover, 835.00. AHS member price, PRE~'T-02970 o Color In Your Garden...... 8 28.00 828.00. LIlTI·04700 Exotica IV. Alfred Byrd Graf. 2,580 pages, o DeSigning with Flowers...... 8 18.70 2-volume set. Revised edition of the compre Designing with Flowers. Tricia Guild. 191 CROWN-0468O hensive guide to plants from tropical and pages. Discussions of floral design elements, o Plant Propagation Principles and Practices .... 8 28.25 near-tropical areas. Includes 15,800 black including chapters on use of color, major PRE~'T-03220 o Manual of Cultivated Conifers ...... 8 55.25 and-white and 405 color photographs. Con color groups, using foliage, and containers. ISBS-05050 cise descriptions and brief cultural informa Also chapters on composition, using fragrant o Rorills Third ...... 8117.00 tion for each plant. Hardcover, 8187.00. AHS flowers, combining food and flowers, and us MAC~II-03560 member price, 8175.90. ing flowers to decorate interiors. Includes I would like to order books. many photographs of the author's own attrac Please add 81. 75 per book to cover postage AHS Garden Diary. American Horticultural tive, informal arrangements. Hardcover; and handling. SOCiety. 96 pages. Our ring-bound diary fea 824.95. AHS member price, 818.70. tures a sturdy, laminated cover and space Enclosed is my check for 8,---- Plant Propagation Principles and Practices. \vithin to record all kinds of gardening infor Please make checks payable to the American mation, including pages for individual plants, Hartmann and Kester. 662 pages. Consid Horticultural SoCiety. Allow six weeks for delivery. a blooming sequence chart, and space for ered a definitive textbook on the subject. Virginia residents, please add 4% sales tax. three years of month-by-month notes. Soft Complete, up-to-date coverage of all phases cover, 814.95. Special AHS member price, of plant propagation. Approximately 130 Mail to: Robin Williams, American Horticultural 89.95. pages are devoted to seed propagation alone; Society, P.O. Box 0105"]-87, Mount Vernon, VA an additional 100 pages cover propagation of 22121. Plants for Profit. Dr. Francis Jozwick. 339 selected plants. Hardcover, 831.95. AHS pages. Running a profitable, rewarding Sltip to member price, 828.25. greenhouse business may be easier than you think, and this book will help you get off to a Manual of Cultivated Conifers. Gerd Kruss Street good start. Written by a successful co=er mann. 445 pages. Essential reference work City cial greenhouse owner who is recognized by for the serious conifer enthUSiast, translated Who's Who in the West for his accomplish- from German. Includes descriptions of over State Zip FLORIST GREENHOUSE EQUIPMENT NEW PERENNIAL POPPIES Salary: $9.1 06 per hour. Grows and cares for FREE CATALOG- Save on equipment, pots, flats, Superior to standard O riental Poppies. Color cat plants ; maintains greenhouses and indoor and baskets , soils, fertilizers. Send 22¢ stamp for post alog ofMinicaps® hybrid poppies $1. 00. MOHNS, outdoor display areas. Three ye,ars paid expe age. GROW-N-ENERGY, PO Box 508A, Ba ldwin INC. , Box 2301 , A t a~ca de ro , CA 93423. rience growing and maintaining plants, fl owers, Place, NY 10505. NURSERY STOCK shrubs or trees under greenhouse conditions OR a Bachelor's degree in Horticultural Science and HARDY UNUSUAL FOOD TREES MILLIO NS OF SEEDLI NGS ; High Quality, Rea one year paid experience growing and main WIDE SELECTION: antique apples, chestnut, sonable Prices. Ove r 100 Selections fo r Christ taining plants, fl owers, shrubs o r trees under mulberry, walnut, black currant, hazel hybrids, mas Trees, Ornamentals, Windbreaks, Timber, greenhouse conditions or an equivalent com saskatoon, rootstocks and mo re. Highest spring Soil Conservation, Wildlife Cover. Free Catalog. bination of training and experience. The suc dug quality at lowest price. 2 stamps for catalog. CARI NO NURSERI ES, Box 538, Dept.]., Indiana, cessfu l candidate must obtain a va lid PA drivers BEAR CREEK NU RSERY, POB 411M, Northport, PA 15701 . license prior to appointment. Applications and WA 99157. Over 80 varieties of apples on dwarf and semi additional information available until fi ling dead HEATHS & HEATHERS dwarf rootstocks. BLU EB IRD O RCHARD AN D line 1-30-87. Call or write to request application NURSERY, 304 Church St. , Coopersville, MI 49404. at: TIffi DEPARTMENT OF PERSONNEL AND CIVll. HARDY HEATHERS FOR ALL-YEAR GARDEN SERVICE COMMISSION, Fourth Floor, City-County COLOR! Send SASE for descriptive mail-order ORCHIDS Building, Pittsburgh, PA 15219, (412) 255-2710, list. Fast Service! HEATHER GROWERS, Box 850, Al oca~ i a, Anthurium, Brome liad, Calathea, Fern, EEO, MlFIH. Elma, WA 98541. Hoya, Palm, Platycerium, Orchid Supply Catalog $1.00. Fro m: ANN MANN , 9045 Ro nde n, Win HERBS FLOWERING HOUSEPlANTS dermere, FL 32786. GESNERlADS. Huge collection. Sinningia, Glox NEW CATALOG offers 300 herbs, everlastings, PALMS inia, Columnea, Episcia, Achimenes, more. De books, potpourri makings. For catalog and year's scriptive catalog $1.50. ROBERTS' GESNERlADS, subscription to newsletter send $2.00 to THE MI NIATURE "LADY PALMS " have been popular Dept. A.H., 5656 Calyn Rd ., Baltimore, MD 21228. HERB GREENHOUSE, Box 22061, Louisville, KY indoor plants in the Orient for over 300 years. 40222. Elegant, long-lived, easy-care. Choose from many FRAGRANCE different green and variegated varieties. Rhapis HERBS, SCENTED GERAN IUMS , IVI ES , FUCH SEEDS FOR FRAGRANCE, herbs, and the English Palm book, 52 pages $5.00. Catalog of palms and SIAS , HOUSE PlANTS. One Thousand culti vars Flower Garde n. Catalogue $1. 00. THE FRA pottery $1.00. RHAPIS GARDENS, PO Box 287-A, listed . 40th anniversary catalog $2 .00. MERRY GRANT PATH , Box 328A, Fort Calhoun, NE 68023. Gregory, TX 78359. GARDE NS, PO Box 595, Camden, ME 04843. FROM THE VALLEY OF FLOWERS PERENNIALS POppy COLLECTION, Iceland-Gartford Giants, HOUSE PlANTS We offer a good selection of sturdy plants. Send California Poppy, Mission Bells, Shirley-Ameri O RCHIDS, GESNERlADS, BEGONIAS, CACTI & $1.00 fo r Plant Li st ( refundable). CAM ELOT can Legion, Shirley Mixed. Sweet Pea Collection: SUCCULENTS. Visitors welcome. 1986-87 catalog NORTH, R2 , Pequot Lakes, MN 56472. Old Spice, Bijou Mixed , Knee-Hi Mixed, Mu lti $1.75. LAURAY OF SALISBURY, Rt. 41 (Under La rge Selection of Perennials for sun and shade. flora Mixed and Floribunda Mixed. SPECIALlY mo untain Rd.), Salisbury, CT 06068 (203) 435- Tall, Medium and carpeting Sedums. Extensive SEEDS, PO Box 842, Lompoc, CA 93436. Check 2263 collection of annual and perennial herbs. Catalog or money order, each collection $5.00, Shipping $1.50. WRENWOOD, Rte. 4, POBox 361, Berke Included. HOUSE PlANTS, UNUSUAL ley Springs, WV 25411. EXCITING NEW AND UNUSUAL HOUSE Unusual ROCK & SHADE P l a n t~, Hosta, Hemero GARDEN ORNAMENTS PlANTS, Tropicals, Bonsai, Miniatures and Te r callis, Sempervivum, Shrubs, Iris & Native Amer Bronze, Lead, and Stone including Topiary. 400 rarium P l a n t~ , Exotic Flowers and Fruits, Passion icans. Pe rennial Seed. 24 Page Catalog Send 44¢ page catalog available $8. 00. Hard bound li brary Flowers, Begonias, Gesneriads, Vines. Catalogue stamps. ROCKNOLL NURSERY, 9210 U.S. 50, Dept. edition over 2,000 illustrations showing bird baths, $1.00. THE PlANT KI NGDOM, Box 7273AH, lin 33, Hillsboro, OH 45133-8546. benches, bro nzes including tablets, ciste rns,. coln Acres, CA 92047. compasses, c upid~, curbing, dolphins, eagles, el PlANTS-CHOICE AND AFFORDABLE e ph a nt~, finials, frogs, foxes, frui t baskets, gates JAPANESE IRIS Extensive Selection: * American Natives * Out and gate p ost~ , Japanese lanterns, lead figures, Also DAYLILlES , PEONIES , HOSTA. Request Feb standing Ornamentals * Uncommon Conifers li ons and lion masks, mermaids, plante rs, St. ruary 1987 catalog $1.00, refundable with first * Perennials * Potential Bonsai * Hardiest Eu FranCiS, weathervanes. KENNETH LYNCH & SONS, order. CAP RI CE FARM NU RSERY, 15425 SW Pleas calyptus * Wildlife Plants * Affo rdable contain 78 Danbury Road , Wilton, CT 06897. ant Hill, Sherwood, OR 971 40. erized starter-plants. In fo rmative catalog-$2.00. FORESTFARM, 990 Tetherah, Williams, OR 97544. GARDENING GLOVES JAPANESE PAINTED FERN SALE PlANTS-SCARCE AND UNUSUAL GOATSKI N GLOVES. Tough, lightweight goat ATHYRl UM GEORI NGlANUM PICTUM at low cost' skin stretches and becomes form-fitting, giving Hardy one year old plants, 3 fo r $6.00 (25% Post Distinctive plants for your garden and landscape. wearer ultimate in fit , grip, dexterity. Natural lan age). 50 plants $90.00 postpaid U.S.A. LI MITED Scarce, unusual and many old favorites. Well es olin in leather keeps hands soft. Sizes 7-10 or SUPPLIES. WILDWOOD FLOWER, Rt. 3, Box 165, tablished in pot~ ready for you to grow on. FREE send outline of hand. $8.50 postpaid. PUTNAM'S, Pittsboro, NC 27312. catalogue. APPALACHIAN GARDENS , Box 82, Box 295C, Wilton, NH 03086. Waynesboro, PA 17268. JASMINE RARE LOBELIA: Remarkable offering' Hybrids, GRAPE PlANTS Sambac, 'Grand Duke',Jasmine polyanthum, Poet's natural variants. Brilliant fu chsia, rose, purple. GRAPE PLANTS-40 SEEDLESS , DESSERT , Jasmine. Four fo r $7.50. List 30¢. SPRI NGHEAD Exciting pinks, whites, two tone. SPECIAL O FFER: AMERICAN and EURO PEAN GRAFTED WI NE va GARDENS, Edna Welsh, Rte. 3, Box 1700, Madi Four diffe rent, my selection, $25.00 (postpaid rieties. WI NEMAKl NG SUPPLIES, BOOKS. New son, FL 32324. U.S.A.) EUPATORIUM COLESTI NUM ALBA, SCU 1987 catalog FREE. Square Root Nursery, 4764 TELLARIA SERRATA $4.00 each (25% postage). MIST CONTROLLERS Deuel Rd ., Dept. X, Canandaigua, NY 14424. "THE Send stamped envelope fo r lobeli a, fern list. GRAPE PEOPLE" YOU CAN GET FANTASTIC PRO PAGATION RE WILDWOOD FLOWER, Rt. 3, Box 165, Pittsboro, SULTS! Bigger pro fi ts at less cost! Guaranteed NC 27312. GREENHOUSE BOOKS best on the market! AQUAMO NITO R fo ll ows GREEN HOUSE MANAGEMENT-SECOND EDI closely the mist requirements of almost any un PLUMERIA! GINGERS! HmISCUS! TION by Robert W. Langhans, Corne ll University rooted cutting, compensating automaticall y for BOUGAINVILLEAS! professor. Informati on o n heating , cooling, changes in sun, temperature, humidity, wind , etc. ALSO DAYLILlES, TRO PICAL BULBS , BOOKS. A watering, lighting and pest control. 270 pages, AQUAMONITOR pays for itself quickly! Send fo r COLLECTOR'S DREAM CATALOG OF EASY-TO 209 illustrations. Send $2 1.00 post-paid to HAL free brochure giving exciting facts. AQUAMON GROW EXOTIC PLANTS-$1.00. HANDBOOK OF CYON PRESS OF ITHACA, 111 Halcyon Hill Road, ITOR, Dept. 4, Box 327, Huntington, NY 11743. PLUM ERIA CULTURE-$4.95. RELlABLE SERV Ithaca, NY 14850. Telephone: (516) 427-5664. ICE , GROWI NG INSTRUCTI ONS, SPE CIALlY
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FERTllJZERS. PLUMERlA PEOPLE, PO Box 82001 4, NOW THE LARGEST SELECTION OF SEED. Houston, TX 77282-0014. 5,000 items, Who lesa le/Retail. Ask for li s t~. PER RARE NATIVE PLANTS ENNIALS $2.00. TREE & SHRUBS (1,400 ITEMS). Seed Sold and Bought. (704) 298-475 1. MAYER AIlS Rhododendron chapmannii, R austrinum, R. spe SEEDS, Rte. 2, Box 265 B, A~hevi ll e , NC 28805 . ciosum, R serralatum, R prunifolia, Magnolia ashei (Weatherby), Magnolia pyramidata, Stewar THE WORLD'S LARGEST and most famous seed tia malacrodondron. Grown from native seed o r catalog. Over 225 pages, 4,000 va rieties, 1,000 Travel cuttings. Write for prices and shipping dates. SAL color pictures. A majo r book of reference. The TER TREE FARM , Rt. 2, Box 1332, Madison, FL Encyclopedia of how and what to grow from 32340 seed. Vegetables, potted plants, exotiCS, peren nials, alpines, rockery, latest and best annuals, RARE PLANTS trees, shrubs, bulbs from seed; includes rare items Program RARE AND UNUSUAL PLANTS-otherwise com unobtainab le elsewhere. Write for free copy, al mercially unavailable-for botanic collections, lowing three week~, or enclose $2 for first-class landscaping, ho me, o ffice-130 Bamboo, in The American Horticultural Society is spon· mail: THOMPSON & MORGAN, INC.,Dept.A1-1C, sOrlng an exciting program of horticultural ex cluding giant, medium-s ized, dwarf, green and PO Box 1308, J ac k~on, NJ 08527. variegated, 90 cycad~ , 180 palms. 1,000 plant and plorations for the 1987 season. Plan to jOin SUTTON SEEDS-Exquisitely packaged seed gardening books . Three seasonal catalogs $5. EN fellow AHS members on one or more of these collections from England: Each collection con DANGERED SPECIES, PO Box 1830, Tustin, CA Interesting and educational garden-related tains five separate seed packets. Choose from 92681-1830 tours. Use the coupon below to request more Herb Collection, Dried Flower Collection, Cot Information. RHODODENDRONS tage Garden Collection or Scented Collection. RHODODENDRONS FOR THE WOODLAND, Each collectio n $4.50 del ivered. MRS. Mc Bay Gardens of California (March 26-April 4). LANDSCAPE, AND ROCK GARDEN. FREE descrip GREGOR'S GARDEN SHOP, 4801 1st St. N., Explore outstanding examples of landscape and tive listing, growing tips. CARDINAL NURSERY, Dept A, ArlingtOn, VA 22203. (703) 528-8773 garden design in Cabfornia, with emphasis on the Rte. I, Box 316M, State Road, NC 28676. (919) work of three distinguished designers of the San SEEDS & PLANTS 874-2027. Francisco Bay area: Thomas Church, Dan Kiley Seed~ of choice woody and ·herbaceous p l a n t~ and Lawrence Halprin. We will visit celebrated RHODODENDRONS & AZALEAS & vines. Clematis, Fothergilla, Primula~ , many public gardens and parks, private estates, the fa SPECIALIZING IN THE UNUSUAL. Dwarf Rhodo Maples, Viburnums. Plants fo r fall color, special mous redwoods, vineyards and a specialty vegeta dendrons, Evergreen & Deciduous Aza l ea~ , Dwarf bark & berries. Spores of rare Mexican Ferns. ble and flower fann. Leaders: Eleanor M. Mc Conifers, Companion Pl ants. Catalog $1.00, re Generous packets $1.50 Postpaid. Send large SASE Peck, garden designer, landscape historian and fundable. THE CUMMI NS GARDEN, 22 Roberts for informational list and Free Packet of Seeds. co-author of Beatrix Farrand: Gardens and Cam ville Rd., Marlboro, NJ 07746. (201) 536-2591. MAPLETHORPE, 11 296 Sunnyview NE, Salem, OR pus; and Sue Hossfeld, Bay Area resident and RHODODENDRONS AND AZALEAS-Select from 97301. knowledgeable horticulturist 1,000 varieties with many new exciting intro TOPIARY ductions. Also Laurel, Andromeda, Holly, Coni Emerald Gardens of Ireland (June 4-18). The PLANTED TOPIARY AND FRAMES. Discount to fers, Rare Plants and Trees. Mail-order catalog Emerald Isle is not as weU known for her gardens clubs. Write for FREE BROCHURE. TOPIARY, INC., $2.00. ROSLYN NURSERY, Dept. AH, Box 69, Ros as her English neiJ(hbor, but Irish gardens have a 41 Bering Street, Tampa, FL 33606. lyn, NY 11576 (516) 643-9347. wild and wonderful glory all their own. Corne take TREES AND SHURBS a romantic journey to some of the lost relics of ROCK GARDEN PLANTS UNUSUAL EVERGREEN and DECIDUOUS SHRUBS the Irish landscape as weU as to the flourishing Rare Alpines, Wildflowers, Dwarf Conifers, AND TREES. Direct introductions from China and estates of today. You will discover the surprising Groundcovers, Colorful Rock Plants, Hardy Rho Japan, over 200 species and varieties offered. variety and richness of these gardens, and the dodendron, Books. Catalog $1. RICE CREEK GAR Many new this year. Catalog. 44¢ postage. CA changing mood and character of the landscape as DENS, 1315 66th Ave. NE, Minneapolis, MN 55432. MELLIA FOREST NURSERY, 125 Carolina Forest, weU. We begin our tour in the Southwest, with its (612) 574-1197. Chapel Hill, NC 27514. dramatic views of the sea and mountains, and ROSES continue to Dublin and County Wicklow, 'The UNUSUAL PLANTS Garden of Ireland." Leader: Patrick Bowe, garden HARD TO FINO ROSES , old and new varieties EUPHORBlAS, CAUOICIFORMS, RARE SUCCU designer and expert on 19th- and 20th-century including HT Maid of Honour. List Free on re LENTS, SANSEYlERlAS, LOW LIGHT PLANTS AND gardens. quest. HORTICO INC., RR #1, Waterdown, On OTHER EXOTICS. Catalog and periodic news tario, Canada LOR 2HO. Telephone: (416) 689- letters, $1.50 deductible from first order. SING wst and Found: Fonnal Gardens of England 6984 ERS ', 17806 Plummer St., A.H., Northridge, CA (June 17-July 2). Discover some of England's SEEDS 91325. most fantastic fonnal gardens, including the grand Powis Castle, the leafy Melbourne Hall and the Primula auricula, a much improved strain of VIDEOTAPES flowery enclosures of cozy Tudor manor houses. garden auricula. A complete palette of colors. INCREASE YOUR GARDENING KNOWLEDGE. We will also tour Packwood House and view its Some separate colors available. SAS.E. for list. Thirty outstanding gardening videotapes. Priced magnificent topiary yew, as weU as Sutton Hoo CHEHALIS RARE PLANT NURSERY, 2568 Jackson $13.95 Up. Free Catalog 1-800-331-6304. Califor and its lavish contemporary emblematic garden. Hwy., Chehalis, WA 98532. nia Call Collect (415) 558-8688. The Original Gar Leader: Mac Griswold, garden writer and HUDSON'S WORLD-FAMOUS CATALOG, since deners Video Catalog, PO Box 410777, San Fran historian. 1911 , offering thousands of unusual seeds from cisco, CA 94141. every continent. Fragrant Jasmines, elegant An Wll.DFLOWERS YES! Please send me more Information on the gers Trumpets, Baobab, Teosinte. Himalayan, Af tours I have checked below. rican, Australian wildflowers. Rare culinary and SOUTHEASTERN WILDFLOWERS FOR THE GAR medicinal herbs. American heirloom, European, DEN AND NATURALIZING. All top quality nurs o Bay Gardens of Cabfornia Oriental and traditional Mexican Indian vegeta ery propagated plants. Catalogue $1.00, refund o Emerald Gardens of Ireland bles. Hundreds of exclusives. Information-packed ab le. NICHE GARDENS, Rte. I , Box 290-A, Chapel o Fonnal Gardens of England Hill, NC 27514. catalog $1.00.]. L. HUDSON, Seed~man , Box 1058- Name ______AT, Redwood City, CA 94064. WOODLANDERS AMERICAN GARDEN DESIGNS now offers proven RARELY OFFERED SOUTHEASTERN NATIVES, Ad~~s ______performance in small quantities at nominal prices. woody, herbaceous, nursery-grown. Many hardy The seeds we sell are only award winning or northward. Also newly introduced exotics se professionally selected varieties in usable quan lected for Southern gardens. Send 39¢ postage City ______State __ Zip __- tities for the home gardener. Free catalogue: PO for extensive mailorder list. WOODLANOERS AH, MAIL TO: Elizabeth Smith, American Horticultural Society, Box 28, Melrose Park, IL 60160. 1128 Colleton Ave., Aiken, SC 29801. PO IJox 0105, Mount Vernon, VA 22121.
AMERICAN HORTICULTURIST. 19 MAY 13-16, 1987 NEW YORK CITY
he American Horticultural So ciety invites you to join us for Ta wonderful experience in one of America's most vibrant urban horticultural centers-The Big Apple. You will learn from urban horticul tural experts and share ideas with fellow gardeners as you explore gar dening in parks, penthouses, town houses, atria, and estates, as well as public and private gardens. Make this a true celebration of gardening in the city. Join us in New York!
TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1987 2:00-6:00 p.m.-Registration, AHS ' Meeting Headquarters, Omni Park Central Hotel, 870 Seventh Avenue (Between 55th and 56th Streets), New York City. The Enid A. Haupt Conservatory at the New York Botanical Garden 6:00 p.m.-Welcome Reception. 7:00 p.m.-Dinner on your own. 9:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.-Education Community Garden, on the west Discount available to AHS members and Plenary Session: "The Green side of midtown Manhattan. Lunch at at hotel restaurant. ing of New York" the Garden. Tour continues, after 8:30-9:30 p.m.-Member's Show lunch, to other community gardens case. ''Your Signature in Flowers and • "Nurturing Community In volvement in Horticulture," by Plants," a presentation on floral ar in Manhattan. Experts will lead tours Tom Fox, Director of the Neighbor of rangement by Mrs. Frances Poetker, and speak about the development hood Open Space Coalition and each garden. The tour will conclude AHS Board Member and owner of leader in the field of community with a visit to the Conservatory Gar Jones the Florist, one of the leading den in Central Park, where refresh florists in the United States. Mrs. gardening. ments will be provided. Poetker wi ll be assisted by former • "Miracle On 1 04th Street: The AHS President Edward N. Dane and Conservatory Garden and its 5:00 p.m.-Retu:n to hotel. his wife, Arabella. Neighbors," by Lynden Mi ller, Di 6:30-7:30 p.m.-Reception and rector of the Conservatory Garden, Preview of the Architectural Central Park League of New York's Exhibition, WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1987 • Panel discussion with question "The Inhabited Landscape." 9:00-9:30 a.m.-Formal Opening and answer period featuring Mr. Fox, Frances Halsband, President of the of the AHS 42nd Annual Meeting. Ms. Miller and leaders of the "Green League, will give a presentation on Welcome by New York City Mayor ing of New York" group. the exhibit. The Reception is being Edward Koch or his representative. 12:30 p.m.-Tour to Clinton co-hosted by the American Horticul-
20 • JANUARY 1987 tural Society and the Architectural Society's President's Council. (For in League of New York. formation about membership in this Dinner and evening to enjoy on special group, please write to Presi your own. Group rate theater tick dent Everitt Miller, AHS, P.O. Box ets to "Little Shop of Horrors" will 0105, Mount Vernon, Virginia 22121.) be available. FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1987 THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1987 7:15-8:45 a.m.-Optional: Mem Concurrent Sessions (Please bers' Forum Breakfast. An oppor choose one.) tunity for members to offer their Session A: The New York Botani thoughts regarding future Society cal Garden and the Cloister Mu activities. ($24) seum Gardens. Concurrent Sessions (Please 8:00 a.m.-Buses leave hotel for choose one.) New York Botanical Garden. Session A: Central Park and the 9:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m.-Visit to New Olmsted Legacy, 9:00 a.m.-12:00 York Botanical Garden. noon. • Welcome and orientation. "The • ''The Olmsted Legacy Across Amer Mission of the New York Botanical ica," presented by Charles Beveridge, Garden," by James Hester, President. co-editor of The Olmsted Papers. "Urban Horticulture and the New • "New York City's Olmsted Parks," York Botanical Garden-Past, Present by Henry Stern, New York City's and Future," by Carl Totemeier, Jr. , The Japanese Garden at the Brooklyn Commissioner of Parks Botanic Garden Glenn Kapp Vice President for Horticulture. • "Central Park: Its History, Design • Special small-group tours led by 12:30 p.m.-Lunch in the Garden. and Construction by Olmsted and horticultural experts of the Garden, 1:30 p.m.-Buses leave Brooklyn Vaux and Its Current Rebuilding," concentrating on three different sec Botanic Ga rden for Prospect Park. presented by Elizabeth Barlow Rog tions: Propagation Ranges and the 2:00-4:00 p.m.-Visit to Prospect ers, Administrator of Central Park. Children's Garden, the Enid Haupt Park. Welcome and orientation by 12:00 noon-Buses leave hotel for Conservatory and adjoining display Tupper Thomas, adminstrator of Central Park. gardens, and the Rock Garden and Prospect Park. Tour this beautiful 12:30 p.m.-Lunch at Chess and Native Plant Garden. urban park, which was one of Olm Checkers, in Central Park, and visit to 12:30 p.m.-Lunch at the Snuff Mill sted's favorite public works. Central Park's Visitors Center in the in the Garden. 4:15 p.m.-Buses leave Prospect Dairy. 1:30 p.m.-Buses leave the New Park for hotel. 2:00 p.m.-Concurrent bus and York Botanical Garden for the Clois Session C: Private Gardens in walking tours of Central Park, con ters Museum. Greater New York ducted by Central Park Rangers. 2:30 p.m.-Tour of the gardens of 10:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m.-Hear a dis 4:00 p.m.-Buses leave for hotel. the Cloisters Museum and adjacent tinguished panel of speakers led by Session B: Indoor Gardening Fort Tryon Park (designed by Ellen Samuels, co-author, with Rose (Limited to 125), 9:00 a.m.-12:30 Olmsted) on the Hudson River. mary Verey, of The American Wom p.m. 4:30 p.m.-Buses leave to return to an's Garden, and editor of the Bulle • Participants walk two blocks to the the hotel. tin of American Garden History. headquarters of the Horticulwral So Session B: The Brooklyn Botanic Marco Polo Stufano, Director of Wave ciety of New York, 128 W. 58th St., Garden and Prospect Park Hill, and other New York gardening New York City. Welcome at Webster 8:00 a.m.-Buses leave hotel for the experts will give illustrated lectures Hall from Larry Pardue, Executive Di Brooklyn Botanic Garden. on private gardens and gardening in rector of the NY. Horticultural 9:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m.-Visit to New York and its environs. Tours to Society. Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Welcome several of Greenwich Village's pretti • "Indoor Light Gardening-Applica and orientation to the Garden by the est gardens will also be a feature of tions and Ideas for the Big App le or President, Donald E. Moore, and the this session. A box lunch wi ll be Anytown, U.S.A.," presented by Vice President, Elizabeth Scholz. provided. George and Virginie Elbert. Mr. El • Special small-group tours to sev 6:00-7:30 p.m.-Dinner on your bert is a former President of the In eral sites will be led by Lucy Jones, own. Discount available to AHS door Gardening Society of America, Director of Education; Elvin Mc members at hotel restaurant. and is the author of The Indoor Light Donald, Director of Special Projects; 7:30-8:30 p.m.-"Gardens Around Gardening Book. Mrs. Elbert is the and other Garden horticultural ex the World," a presentation on AHS current President of the Indoor Gar perts. The Children's Garden, Con tours by Passages Unlimited. dening Society of America. servatory Complex, Japanese Garden, Evening on your own to enjoy • "Indoor Plants of Merit. " The Rock Garden, Plants that Merit Atten the City. speakers will be specialists from the tion, and the Shakespeare Garden 7:00 p.m.-President's Council New York chapters of the Orchid So wi ll be viSited. Dinner. Open to members of the ciety, the Gloxinia and Gesneriad So-
AMERICAN HORTICULTURIST. 21 ciety, the Cactus and Succulent Soci ety and the African Violet Society. 12:45 p.m.-Lunch at the headquar ters of the Horticultural Society of New York. 1:30 p.m.-Presentation by Elvin McDonald, Director of Special Pro jects, Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 2:15-4:00 p.m.-Walking tour of some of New York's most exciting in door plantings (including atria at IBM , Trump Tower, Park Avenue Plaza and Chemical Bank). 6:00 p.m.-Buses leave hotel for New York Botanical Garden, for gala National Achievement Award Dinner honoring the Rockefeller Family. 7:15 p.m.-Reception in the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, New York Botanical Garden, and a tour of the NYBG 1987 Spring Show on its Opening Day. Westbury House at Old Westbury Gardens 8:15 p.m.-Gala National Achievement Award Dinner in ad usual specimen trees and shrubs, Awards Banquet. (See pages 2 joining tent. perennial borders of infinite variety, through 5 for the names of the 1987 9:15-10:00 p.m.-Illustrated Na a boxwood garden, a cottage garden, Award Winners.) tional Achievement Award Pres demonstration gardens, and a walled entation honoring the Rockefeller garden with over two acres of herba Family. Mrs. Carolyn Marsh Lindsay, ceous borders, ornamental pools and OPTIONAL ALL-DAY TOURS AHS Awards Chairman, will present fountains. the award to Mr. and Mrs. David Tour B: Gardens In and Out of (9 a.m.-4 p.m.): Rockefeller, accepting on behalf of the City. This special tour will in their family. clude a visit to Wave Hill , in the Riv SUNDAY, MAY 17, 1987 10:15 p.m.-Buses leave the New erdale area of the Bronx. Located on Optional Concurrent Tours York Botanical Garden for hotel. the eastern bank of the Hudson (Please choose one.) River, Wave Hill's view expands Tour A: Other Manhattan Parks across the river to the Palisades and and Gardens (Members, $60; Non SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1987 beyond, to the hills of the Catskills Members, $70). Bus and walking 8:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m.-Concurrent and the wilderness of the Adiron tours of gardens in Manhattan, in Tours (Please choose one. Box dacks. The gardens appear as if cluding Green Acre Park, the Ford lunch included for both.) formed with the land. They include Foundation Atrium, Rockefeller Cen Tour A: Garden Tour of Long Is the Herb Garden, the Aquatic Garden ter Channel Gardens and Roof Gar land. All-day tour of the "Gold and woodland nature trails. Once a dens, and Battery Park, overlooking Coast"-the North Shore of Long Is private estate, Wave Hill is now a New York harbor and the Statue of land. The tour will include a visit to public garden, providing a natural Liberty. Box lunch included. Planting Fields Arboretum, one of the environment that is landscaped to Tour B: Gardens Outside the Northeast's most outstanding horti perfection, within the city. The City. Repeat of Tour B, Saturday, cultural showplaces. Here we will PepsiCo Sculpture Garden in Pur May 16. (Members, $60; Non-Mem see magnificent plant collections, fea chase, New York is also on this tour. bers, $70). Tour of gardens at Wave turing over 600 rhododendron and This garden was designed by the Hill, the PepsiCo Sculpture Gardens, azalea species and hybrids, the oldest British-born landscape designer, Rus and other specially selected horticul and largest camellia collection of its sell Page. Page created a classic set tural attractions around New York kind grown under glass, and the five ting for dozens of sculptures with City. Box lunch included. acre Synoptic Shrub Garden. Coe ponds, beautiful herbaceous borders, Hall, the former country house at groves of trees and natural areas. It is Planting Fields, is one of the few re referred to as "a garden picture" and MONDAY, MAY 18, 1987 maining mansions of the fabled a work of art. (This tour is also of Private Gardens Tour (Members, "Gold Coast" era. Also on the tour is fered as an option on Sunday, May $60; Non-Members, $70). Tour of Old Westbury Gardens, which was 17.) magnificent private gardens in and built as a private estate in the early 4:30 p.m.-Buses return to hotel. around Westchester County, New part of the 20th century to re-create 6:00-7:15 p.m.-President's York. Gardens will be opened only an 18th-century English country es Reception. to tour participants. Lunch is tate. The gardens contain many un- 7:30-10:00 p.m.-Annual AHS included.
22 • JANUARY 1987 AHS 42ND ANNUAL MEETING REGISTRATION FORM
HOTEL INFORMATION: Accommodations for out-of-town Meeting participants and at the American Horticultural Society's Awards Dinner as Sponsors of the 42nd will be available at tbe Omni Park Central Hotel, 870 Seventh Avenue at 56th Street, Annual Meeting. New York, NY 10019, (212) 247-8000. When your registration form and check are o Members who will be attending the Annual Meeting and wish to be recognized received, we will send you a hotel registration card. Plea,e retu rn the card to the as a Sponsor, please check this box and send your contribution of $2 50 or more, Omni Park Cent ral Hotel; hotel staff will confirm your reservation. along with yo ur registration, to the address below. Room rates for AHS An nual Meeting participants are $87 (single), $107 (double) or $199 (suite). These rates do not incl ude New York City Sales Tax and New York City Occupancy Tax. The hotel will not guarantee rooms for people registering fo r Please send payment in fuU for registration for the AUS Annual Meeting the AHS An nual Meeti ng after Apn'f 22. Late registrant, mal' ca ll the Omn i Park to: AUS Annual Meeting, American Horticultural Society, P.O. Box 0105, Cent ral Hotel at (800) 346-1359 (out,ide NY state) or (2 12)484-3300 (within NY Mount Vernon, VA 22121. state) for hotel registration. All meeti ng registrations must be sent to Al-IS. IMPORTANT: Registrati ons must be postmarked by April 22, 1987 to guarantee space. Plea,e register earlier if possible. The full registration fee covers all evenL) and transportation listed on the An nual Meeting Program, except those marked Please list your name( s) as yo u wish it (them) to appear on your badge( s). "OPTIONAL." Lodgi ng and meals (odler than dlose indicated) are not incl uded. Optional activ ities are: optional dinner on Tuesday, optional dinner on Thursday, members' fo rum breai 1------Please enter the number of people registering and the total fee for each item in the spaces below: ------1 Non- Member's # of People Total member's # of People Total Fee Registering Fee Fee Registering Fee FUlL REGISTRATION (Excl udes all optional activities) May 13-16...... mo $ $370 PARTIAL REGISTRATION (Excludes all opti onal activities) Wednesday, May 13 ...... 85 95 Thursday, May 14 ...... 65 75 Friday, May 15...... 65 75 Saturday, May 16 (banquet included). .. 135 145 Banquet only (for extra guests ) .. 75 75 OPTIONAl ACTIVITIES: (Not included in full or partial registrati on fees) Wednesday, May 13 o Theater ouiing to "Little Shop of Horrors" ...... $30 $30 SumiaV, Mcry 17 Concurrent All -Day Tours (Please choose one.) o Tour A: Manhattan Gardens 60 70 o Tour B: Gardens Out,ide the City ...... 60 70 Monday, May 18 o Private Gardens Tour .-. 60 70 TOTAl ENCLOSED $,== $,=== CONCURRENT ACTIVITIES: (Included in registration fee). Advance registration is required. Pl ea,e indicate number of registrant, in box. Please choose only one activi ty for each day. Friday, Ma)' 15 o Session A: Central Park and the Olmsted Legacy Thursday, May 14 o Session B: Indoor Gardening o Sess'ion A: NY Botanical Garden and Cloister Museum Gardens Saturday, May 16 o Session B: Brooklyn Botanic Garden and Prospect Park o Tour A: Garden Tour of Long Island o Session C: Private Gardening in Greater NY o Tour B: Gardens in and out of the City AMERICAN HORTICUL TIJRIST • 23 Horticultural Color Chart A new edition of the Horticultural bers. If you are interested in obtain interest, we will be able to establish Colour Chart has been issued by the ing a copy of the Horticultural Col a price. At that time, all those who Royal Horticultural SOCiety, London, our Chart, please write to the have expressed and interest will be in association with the Flower Coun Associate Editor in care of the Soci given the opportunity to place an cil of Holland, Leiden. ety. Once we determine the level of order. The design of this new edition is similar to the old, but several refine ments have made it easier to use. The color chart is comprised of four fans, each with 50 sheets that contain Rockefellers to Receive Award four different color shades. The sheetS measure 190 x 60 mm (about 7V2 x 2 inches) and are joined with screws. Each color patch measures 32 x 60 mm (about 1% x 2 inches) and has a hole in the center to make it easier to match color. Fan numbers one, two and three include colors ranging from yellow to orange, red, purple, violet, blue, green, and back to yellow. Fan num ber four includes shades of gray, white and black. The fans are intended for use by professionals in the ornamental plant industry, but they will also be useful to anyone involved with the use of color in any capacity. They may be ordered from the Royal Horticultural Society Enterprises, Ltd., RHS Gar den, Wisley, Woking, Surrey, GU23 6QB, England, for 25 pounds British sterling (about $38.75 at current ex change rates), including postage and Mr. & Mrs. David Rockefeller (on left) will accept the Society's National Achievement handling. Award on behalf of the entire Rockefeller family at the Society's Annual Meeting in The Society is considering plaCing New York. This is the second such award to be presented (the first was given to Lady Bird Johnson in 1984), in recognition of outstanding contributions to horticulture at a bulk order for charts if sufficient the national level. Mrs. Carolyn Marsh Lindsay (second from right) will present the interest exists among Society mem- award. Mr. John Whitworth,Jr., also pictured (far right), is a Society Board Member. 2ND CLASS American POSTAGE PAID AT ALEXANDRIA, VA Horticulturist AND AT ADDITIONAL MAILING OFFICES P.O. Box 0105, Mount Vernon, VA 22121