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VOLUME 63 NUMBER 8 Contents Guest Editorial: A Home for American Horticulture by Connie Clark 2 Garden Design: Dry Streams by Michael B. Trimble 5 Book Reviews by Gilbert S. Daniels 10 The Disa Orchid Text and Illustration by Peter Loewer 13 New Zealand-A Garden Tour by Ruby Weinberg 14 Nasturtiums by Jeanne Goode 20 Barnard's Inn Farm by Polly Hill 22 Native Lilies Text and Photography by Richard M. Adams, II 28 Classifieds 32 Pronunciation Guide 36 Sources 37 Strange Relatives: The Pro tea Family by Jane Steffey 38 The Design Page: Garden Gates by Margaret Hensel 44 On the Cover: It is not often that we have the opportunity to see a garden through the eyes of its maker, but in this issue, Polly Hill Beautiful flowers, fresh green leaves, a terrestrial habit takes us on a tour of her own Martha's Vineyard garden-Barnard's and a preference for cool temperatures characterize Inn Farm. Salt-blackened, shingled buildings and beautiful, lichen­ disa orchids. For more information on this summer­ covered granite walls set the tone for her island garden. "Wall blooming greenhouse plant, turn to page 13. building is an art as well as an engineering feat, but most of all, it Illustration by Peter Loewer. is a creative undertaking," says Mrs. Hill. "The walls are like lace, with open spaces between the solid frame, and are more fragile than their bulk suggests." To read more about Barnard's Inn Farm, turn to page 22. Photograph by Hollen Johnson. EDITOR, PUBLICATIONS DIRECTOR: Barbara W. Ellis. ART DIRECTOR: Rebecca K. McClimans. ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Lynn M. Lynch. EDITORIAL ASS ISTANT: Jane Steffey. HORTICULTURAL CONSULTANT, BOOK EDITOR: Gilbert S. Daniels. PRONUNCIATION GUIDE ADVISOR: Everett Conklin. ASSISTANTS TO THE EDITOR: Loui se Baughn, Cindy Weakland. BUSINESS MANAGER: May Lin Roscoe. MEMBERSHIP DIRECTOR: Connie Clark. COLOR SEPARATIONS: John Simmons, Chromagraphics Inc. ADVERTISING . REPRESENTATIVES: C. Lynn Coy Associates, Inc., 55 Forest Stteet, Stamford, CT 06902, (203) 327-4626. Replacement issues of AMERICAN HORTICULTURIST are available at a COst of $2.50 per copy. The opinions expressed in the articles that appear in AMERICAN HORTICULTURIST are those of the authors and 3ce not necessaril y those of the Society. They are presented as contributions co contemporary thought. Manuscripts, an work and photographs sem for possible publication will be returned if they are accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope. AMERICAN HORTICULTURIST, ISS N 0096-4417, is the official publication of the American Horticultural Society, 7931 East Boulevard Drive, Alexandria, Virginia 22308, (703) 768- 5700, and is issued monthly. Membership in the Society includes a subscription to AMERICAN HORTICULTURIST. Membership dues start at $20.00 a year, $12.00 of which is designated for AMERICAN HORTICULTURIST. Copyright © 1984 by the American Horticultural Society. Second-class postage paid at Alexandria, Virginia and at additional mailing offices. Postmaster: Please send Form 3579 to AMERICAN HORTICULTURIST, Mount Vernon, Virginia 22121. American Horticulturist GUEST EDITORIAL A Hame/or ican Horticulture e do a lot of talking in Society wheat and com on his new property, which officers or, in later years, in standard of­ publications about our head­ he named River Farm. Washington's per­ fice-building accommodations. Imagine the W quarters,River Farm, which we sonal secretary, Tobias Lear, lived at River delight of staff members at the news of this were fortunate to acquire 11 years ago Farm, and was given a lifetime lease on move! The Society's entire membership through a grant from the Enid A. Haupt the property as a wedding present when embraced the opportunity to make this Charitable Trust. The current 25-acre he married Fanny Bassett, Washington's magnificent property "a home for Amer­ property sits on the Potomac River's banks niece. Lear served the first president closely ican horticulture." midway between the city of Alexandria, and was at Washington's bedside when he Today, River Farm boasts a number of Virginia and George Washington's Mount died. display and test gardens co-sponsored by Vernon estate. Many of our members have After Lear's death in 1816, two genera­ the American Horticultural Society and never visited River Farm, nor have they tions of Washington's family lived at River various plant societies. Our Ideas Garden read a comprehensive history of the prop­ Farm, then commonly referred to as Wal­ shows visitors what's new in ornamental erty. Since it boasts quite a background, nut Tree Farm. (Several very old walnut and vegetable gardening. We also have a and since our members' support has been trees still grace the property. Although their Dwarf Fruit Tree Orchard, a water garden, crucial in our maintenallce of River Farm, age has not been officially determined, we the beginnings of a woodland walk and I would like to give you an abbreviated like to speculate that Washington planted one of the largest osage orange trees in the version of "the River Farm story," made these trees himself.) In 1859, Charles Au­ United States (as determined by the U.S . possible by the research of Mary Bening­ gustine Washington sold 52 acres of the Forestry Service's Big Tree Program). ton, a River Farm docent, and Jeanne property to a Quaker family from New But of all the plantings at River Farm, Eggeman, the Society's receptionist and Jersey-Isaac, Stacy and William Snow­ I find the wildflower meadow most mov­ book service coordinator. den. The Snowden family lived in this area ing, perhaps because I can imagine this In 1653, River Farm and its environs for 100 years; Snowden Road, Snowden beautiful property graced with similar were acquired by Captain Giles Brent, the Station of the now-defunct Electric Trolley stands of daisies, evening primroses and first English owner of the property. His Line, and Snowden School bore witness to black-eyed Susans before any settler found wife Mary was the daughter of the Indian the family's influence and energy. The it. The eye follows the line of the massed Emperor of the Piscataway tribe---hence Snow dens gave River Farm yet another flowers down the gentle slope to the riv­ the first known name of the property, Pis­ name-Wellington.
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