A Publication of the American Horticultural Society Volume 71, Number 9 • September 1992 $1.50 News Edition Horticulturus Maxifllus!

Come meet the illustrious winners of the 1992 AHS Awards during our 47th Annual Meeting in Alexandria, Virginia, October 15-17.

Liberty Hyde Bailey Award essential ingredient in quinine, the antimalarial medicine so desperately "A modern-day horticultural philosopher­ needed in the Pacific theater of the war. king" is how writer Allen Lacy described The germinated seedlings were him, comparing his Costa Rican flower­ transplanted to a site in Costa Rica where seed plantation favorably with Plato's Hope later found the plants devastated by Republic. The employees of his flower­ a phytophthora blight. seed farm call him "El Capitan" in tribute But in the Meseta Central of Costa to his World War II military service. Ac­ Rica, Hope recognized a horticultural knowledged by his peers to be a pioneer heaven, ideal for growing ornamental and undisputed master in the field of annuals. Because of the proximity to the hybridized flower-seed production, equator, this rainy, fertile region varies Claude Hope took an obscure wildflower little in temperature or day length. In called impatiens and conquered the 1946, in partnership with an old friend American flower market. This year Hope and classmate, Charles Weddle, Hope receives the American Horticultural founded the PanAmerican Seed Company Society's highest honor, the Liberty Hyde and by 1950 had established Linda Vista Bailey Award, recognizing paramount ("pretty view"), a flower-seed plantation horticultural excellence in three or more that has become legendary in the stock categories: teaching, research, writing, seed industry. plant exploration, administration, art, Hope began large-scale production of business, and leadership. hybridized flower seed at perhaps the Born on a small dairy farm near Sweet­ most propitious time in U.S. history: water, Texas, in 1907, Hope graduated during the postwar population explosion with Texas Tech's first four-year class in and suburban housing boom that 1929. He was one of only three students generated a vast, largely untapped market to enroll in an ornamental horticulture of homeowners looking for attractive, program and considered himself slightly ready-made flowers. PanAmerican Seed eccentric for his dream of one day founding his own seed business. He spent several years as a junior horticulturist at a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) field station in Sacaton, Arizona, before In This Issue beginning a graduate program at Gardeners' Q&A 8 Michigan State University. When he had completed course work for a master's Regional Notes 9 degree, he again left academia to work for AHS Bulletin Board 10 the USDA, this time at the Division of Plant Exploration in Glenn Dale, Gardeners' Dateline 11 Maryland. Gardeners' Bookshelf 18 In 1941 Hope was inducted into the 1991-1992 Contributions 13 U.S. Army, where, luckily, he was able to to use his horticultural talents. He was Classifieds ...... 23 given orders to care for Cinchona Claude Hope ledgerana seeds, a plant source of an

AHS Fall Book Catalog Enclosed! Company had its first great s uccess American with a red petunia Horticultural Society hybrid, 'Comanche'. But Hope had his eye on a personal The American Horticultural Society seeks favorite, an African to promote and recognize flower, Impatiens excellence in horticulture across America. wallerana, which had widely natural­ OFFICERS 1991-1992 ized in Costa Rica. Mr. George C. Ball Jr., West Chicago, IL Now impatiens are President Mrs. Helen Fulcher Walutes, more widely planted Mount Vernon, VA than petunias. First Vice President To the people of Mr. Richard C. Angino, Harrisburg, PA central Costa Rica, Second Vice President Hope is a benefac- Frederick Gutheim William Flemer III Mr. Elvin McDonald, Houston, TX Secretary tor. His farm Mr. Gerald T. Halpin, Alexandria, VA employs more than 1,700 people from the As a young man he held brief apprentice­ Treasurer nearby town of Dulce Nombre and the ships under Lewis Mumford and Frank surrounding countryside, creating a Lloyd Wright. His book, The Potomac, BOARD OF DIRECTORS flower-strewn haven of prosperity in a published in 1949, is regarded as a classic Mrs. Suzanne Bales, Bronxville, NY poor region. of regional history. In 1964 he served on Dr. William E. Barrick, Pine Mountain, GA the President's Task Force on Natural Dr. Sherran Blair, Columbus, OH Beauty, and he was instrumental in the Mrs. Mary Katherine Blount, G. B. Gunlogson Award Montgomery, AL creation of the National Historic Preserva­ Mrs. Sarah S. Boasberg, Washington, DC When staff and visitors at AHS's River tion Act in 1966. Gutheim received Dr. Henry Marc Cathey, Washington, DC Farm headquarters look across the Maryland's Calvert Prize for preservation Mrs. Beverley White Dunn, Birmingham, AL Potomac River at the densely wooded in 1974. He helped found Sugarloaf Dr. John Alex Floyd Jr., Birmingham, AL swathe of Maryland on the opposite side, Regional Trails, a nonprofit organization Mrs. Julia Hobart, Troy, OM Mr. David M. Lilly, St. Paul, MN they see land that has changed little since formed to preserve the cultural and scenic Mr. Lawrence V. Power, New York, NY George Washington owned 15,000 acres landscape of rural Montgomery County, Dr. Julia Rappaport, Santa Ana, CA on the Virginia shore. Frederick Gutheim Maryland, against the encroaching Mrs. Flavia Redelmeier, saw that the way to save the land was to metropolitan sprawl of Washington, D.C.; Richmond Hill, ON, Canada bring it under the protective umbrella of in 1984 Sugarloaf Regional Trails Mrs. Jane N. Scarff, New Carlisle, OH received an honor award from the Mrs. Josephine Shanks, Houston, TX government ownership and public useful­ Mrs. Billie Trump, Alexandria, VA ness. His ideas resulted in the creation of National Trust for Historic Preservation. Mr. Andre Viette, Fishersville, VA the Accokeek Foundation, a nonprofit Ms. Katy Moss Warner, organization dedicated to preserving land Catherine H. Sweeney Award Lake Buena Vista, FL for educational and environmental purposes. Established in Maryland in If you work or live on a property that has ACTING EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 1957, the Accokeek Foundation been professionally landscaped, there's a Mrs. Helen Fulcher Walutes administers the Piscataway National Park good chance that you routinely enjoy the and the National Colonial Farm, an shade of a tree developed and patented by agricultural history museum that was the WIlliam Flemer ill. A third-generation AMERICAN HORTICULTURIST prototype for hundreds of similar historic nurseryman and long-time president of Princeton Nurseries of New Jersey, Flemer EDITOR: Kathleen Fisher farms throughout the country. ASSISTANT EDITOR: Mary Beth Wiesner Gutheim's seminal groundwork in has had a broad influence on American EDITORIAL ASSISTANT: Steve Davolt historic preservation and urban planning horticulture, most notably in plant MEMBERSHIP DIRECTOR: Darlene Oliver has transformed the way environmentally propagation and genetics, and breeding ADVERTISING: American Horticultural conscious Americans perceive and interact woody landscape plants. His patented Society Advertising Department, 2700 with the landscape. Landscape architects cultivars of maples, locusts, crabapples, Prosperity Avenue, Fairfax, VA 22031. and cherries- to name only a few-are Phone (703) 204-4636. and garden designers can look to his writings on architecture and regional among the most popular in use today. 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2 • American Horticulturist • September 1992 James R. Morley Herman R Wallitsch G. Ramsey Yoder the U.S. National Arboretum and the After studying floriculture at Michigan plantsman. His forward-looking curiosity Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University. State University, he returned to his native led him to pioneer such new techniques He has written four books, two of St. Louis and for 21 years represented and innovations as the plastic greenhouse, which- Shade and Ornamental Trees in half of a thriving floral business, Bozzay­ which had been little used in that part of Color and Nature's Guide to Successful Morley Florists. In 1981 he moved to the country. He has tirelessly advocated Gardening and Landscaping-were American Floral Services, Inc. (AFS), a the introduction of better varieties of published in the same year (1965), with floral wire service headquartered in perennials and annuals into his home the latter now in its second edition. He Oklahoma City. He is currently vice region and has acted as a trial grower for was co-author of Ornamental Shrubs in president of educational services and Ball and Park seed companies. A past Hardy and Temperate Climates. His most editor-in-chief of The Professional Floral president of the Kentucky Nurserymen's recent publication was a guide to careers Designer, AFS's popular, all-design Association, Wallitsch has in recent years in the nursery industry. magazine. He has taught classes at the developed a passion for historic gardens F1emer will add the Sweeney award to AFS education center, compiled a film and has helped maintain the period a long list of laurels that includes the library on floral topics, and supervised authenticity of Locust Grove and Thomas Roland Medal of the the production of many AFS publications, Farmington Historic Gardens in Massachusetts Horticultural Society and including such books as Flowers Say It Louisville. Five years ago, the National Wayside Gardens' Gold Medal of Honor, Best, Flowers for Your Wedding and Society of Colonial Dames sought out two of gardening's highest honors. Tributes: Flowers to Express Sympathy. Wallitsch to oversee the restoration of Last year he was honored with the pres­ two of Kentucky'S oldest gardens, the The Frances Jones Poetker Award tigious Award of Distinguished Service to Orlando Brown House and Liberty Hall the Floral Industry, given by the American in Frankfurt. One never fully appreciates the Institute of Floral Designers. Jim Morley complexities of floral design until given a truly knows how to "say it with flowers"! Commercial Award (Institution) bunch of cut flowers to arrange. Achieve­ ments in this field involve the knowledge Commercial Award (Individual) Founded in Barberton, Ohio, in 1921, of color, design, space, and the unique Yoder Brothers, Inc. began as a small, requirements of each plant species. When Herman R. Wallitsch settled near family-run business. Now a leading Recognized for almost 35 years as a Louisville, Kentucky, following World producer of stock plants for the floricul­ peerless floral artist, James R. Morley has War II, he brought with him a wealth of ture industry, Yoder Brothers, Inc., has earned a reputation as a man of many horticultural experience as well as a will­ subsidiaries and production facilities in hats: designer, speaker, educator, editor; ingness to test the latest innovations of Canada, England, Germany, and Kenya. he has also acted as commentator to the trade. Having immigrated to America Yoder specializes in supplying floral conventions ranging from the local at the age of four, Wallitsch got his first commercial greenhouses with vegetatively to the international. Among other dose of plant lore from his father, who propagated cuttings. The company, especial­ achievements, he has created floral had worked as a forester in the Black ly well-known for its line of exquisite designs that adorned presidential trains Forest of their native Germany. On chrysanthemums, also grows roses, poinset­ and the White House sitting room during arriving in America, the Wallitsch family tias, carnations, azaleas, dahlias, and lilies. the administrations of Presidents made its new home in Rhode Island, and The company emphasizes research and Eisenhower, Johnson, and Nixon. The while still in his teens, Herman Wallitsch development, using the latest technology Frances Jones Poetker Award is presented began his career as a gardener on some of to turn out quality plants, stopping short to someone who, through media and nearby Massachusetts' most opulent only of genetic engineering and the public presentations, has heightened estates. There he learned garden design as indeterminate impact of tinkering with appreciation of creative floral design. practiced by the landscape architects who nature's designs. When he was a child, Jim Morley's laid out the manorial grounds. Since 1977 Yoder Brothers, Inc., has grandmother gave him his first flower, an At the outbreak of World War II been headed by the son of one of its iris, and thereby sparked "a life-long inter­ Wallitsch was sent to Fort Knox where he founding fathers. G. Ramsey Yoder has est in all things floral." At the time she fell in love with both the Kentucky worked in the company for more than 30 probably didn't suspect that she was in­ countryside and his future wife, Mary years, starting out as a mum propagator stilling an interest passionate enough to Bowling. After the war the Wallitsches in 1955. In 1959 he moved west to lead her grandson to "appropriate" began their own nursery business. His develop the Salinas, California, facility flowers from church bouquets to use in New England gardening experience and remained there for ten years before his own arrangements. bolstered his reputation as a virtuoso returning to Barberton to become vice

America n Horticulturist · September 1992 + 3 Roger B. Swain Richard J. Hutton Nancy C. Stevenson Elwin R. Orton Jr. president of marketing and sales. In 1977 Horticultural Writing Award percent enjoyable in the execution, it he became president and chief executive invariably becomes two-hundred-percent officer; he now serves as chairman and In his introduction to The Practical enjoyable in retrospect. You are missing CEO. Under his leadership Yoder Gardener, Roger B. Swain writes that out on half of your due if you content Brothers, Inc. has expanded and thrived, "among gardeners, enthusiasm and ex­ yourself with dreaming of imaginary and Yoder mums and other flowers are perience rarely exist in equal measures." bouquets and future harvests. The best shipped throughout the world. Swain, however, belies his own generaliza­ advice that I have to give is to get out tion. Indeed, his entire gardening career there and dig." Communication Award has demonstrated just that balance. With his wire-rimmed glasses, Meritorious Service Award Ralph L. Snodsmith could be described as bountiful ginger beard, and trademark a hybrid: a lifetime gardener with a sound red suspenders, he is recognizable to We have few leaders who help bridge seg­ academic background who also happens millions as one of the hosts of PBS's ments of American horticulture by bring­ to be a prominent media personality, "Victory Garden" series. But it is in his ing their skills in gardening, business, and disseminating his horticultural expertise written prose that his voice comes to full volunteerism to the national scene. The to millions over the airwaves and in print. fruition. For his impressive, growing 1992 Meritorious Service Award, given He is the gardening editor of ABC's corpus of nature and garden writings, for service to AHS, is presented to "Good Morning America" and the host Swain will receive AHS's Horticultural Richard J. Hutton, a well-known figure in of "The Garden Hotline" on the ABC Writing Award. the horticultural world, renowned for his Radio Network. But he hasn't confined A native of Massachusetts, Swain mastery of roses. Chairman of the his work to broadcasting. A former earned his Ph.D. in biology at Harvard Conard-Pyle Company, a wholesale executive director of the Queens University and in 1978 took a job as nursery in West Grove, Pennsylvania, he Botanical Garden, he also has written a science editor of Horticulture, publishing is a staunch proponent of new and better best-selling book, Tips From the Garden many articles in that and other national varieties of roses, as well as other flowers Hotline, produces an annual garden magazines. He has published four books, and shrubs. From thousands of plants planner, and frequently lectures at the the most recent of which is Saving considered and trialed each year, he New York Botanical Garden. Add to this Graces: Sojourns of a Backyard Biologist. consistently winnows out a handful of the distinction of having written the gar­ Prior to that, The Practical Gardener: A choice and proven performers. He has den section for one of the Encyclopedia Guide to Breaking New Ground instantly helped to popularize many new rose cul­ Americana's yearbooks. Small wonder became a sine qua non for every tivars, including 'Mr. Lincoln', now wide­ that Snodsmith has WOR this year's gardening bookshelf. His other books ly thought to be the best red garden rose Horticultural Communication Award. are Earthly Pleasures: Tales From a available. For his lifetime achievements in Snodsmith entered the gardening Biologist's Garden and Field Days: Notes the field of ornamental horticulture, workforce at the precocious age of nine, of an Itinerant Biologist. Hutton received Wayside Gardens' Gold when he took a summer job on a 32-acre Swain's prose style is avuncular, master­ Medal of Honor in 1991. estate near his hometown of Mount Ver­ fully spare, and full of a warm wisdom. While he has meritoriously served the non, Illinois. After receiving his bachelor An affable guide, he can pleasantly shock entire gardening industry, Hutton has and master of science degrees in floricul­ us with a penetrating insight, such as this been an especially good friend to AHS. ture and ornamental horticulture from commonsensical reproof of nomenclatural First elected to its Board of Directors in the University of Illinois, he launched haggling: "We can live with the loss of a 1978, he later became a Vice President "The Garden Hotline," now a popular variety's name, as long as we save the (1984-1986) and Treasurer (1986-1991). syndicated gardening program, on WRKL variety itself." Of the beautifully photo­ As Chairman of the AHS Travel radio in New York in 1966. graphed vistas presented by seed catalogs, Committee from 1987 to 1990, he was This past August he led a European he observes: '''Scenes of Utopia' would be simultaneously able to indulge his great tour that included a visit to Holland's a more precise term," noting that all love of traveling and to enlighten Society Floriade, a world horticultural exhibition flowers blossom and vegetables ripen at members by orchestrating and leading held once every 10 years. Among once in the grandiose panoply of their study tours to such destinations as France, previous awards were the 1989 Garden unlikely pages. To armchair gardeners, he Holland, New Zealand, and China. Communicator's Award from the offers a thoughtful admonition that Hutton modestly points out that his American Association of Nurserymen and should be appreciated by all: "Gardening relationship with AHS has been mutually the New York Botanical Garden's is one-hundred-percent enjoyable in beneficial. "Through AHS," he writes, "I Distinguished Service Award in 1985. anticipation. If it sometimes is only fifty- have developed a much greater

4 + American Horticulturist· September 1992 appreciation of garden and landscape design, appropriate use of plants, and the enthusiasm for new kinds of plants from abelia to zelkova." AHS is richer for his National Achievement Award intensely acti ve participation in the Society and his unflagging support of its The name "Ecke" means poinsettia. Forget that Joel Poinsett, the eponymous goals, services, and activities. father of the plant and the first U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, discovered the flower south of the border in 182S.1t was the Ecke family that made the poinset­ Horticultural Therapy Award tia the world's most popular potted plant and an omnipresent yuletide ornament. Having emigrated from Magdeburg, Germany, to southern California in 1902, Where does a "people" person with a Albert Ecke sold vegetables, fruit trees, and landscaping plants. His son Paul sold green thumb and a master's degree in poinsettias "from a stand on Hollywood's legendary Sunset Boulevard. At that human services find work? In time the rather fragile but striking, large shrubs with bright red bracts were a horticultural therapy, of course. familiar sight on the West Coast but rare elsewhere. Nancy C. Stevenson first combined her When Albert died in 1919, Paul began looking for a sanctuary from the burgeon­ predisposition for helping others with a ing development of Los Angeles. In Encinitas, near San Diego, he bought 40 acres knack for gardening in the late 1970s, that were a grower's dream come true: fertile, frost-free, and near water sources when, as a volunteer, she conducted an and railroads. In 1923 he came across a variety of poinsettia called 'Oak Leaf' and indoor gardening program at Cuyahoga from it began developing a host of sports that would provide the genetic Hills Boys School. A registered horticul­ foundation for nearly every commercially significant poinsettia found today. tural therapist, since 1981 she has held Paul Ecke and wife Magdelana and son Paul Jr. made corporate philanthropy a the post of horticultural therapy coor­ family tradition. Their charity often took the form of large land grants: 21 acres dinator at the Garden Center of Greater to the local YMCA; 3S acres for the creation of the Magdalena Ecke Gardens, a Cleveland. There she has built a model 36-acre donation to the state's parks department that has been crucial in program that reaches out to the elderly preserving California shoreline. When Paul Sr. died in 1991 at the age of 96, and disabled both at the center and in the memorial gifts were made to Cas a de la Esperanza or "House of Hope," a community. In a young profession that is Tijuana orphanage that had been Magdalena's dearest project. For extraordinary still unfamiliar to many, she has quickly achievement in national horticulture and beautifying America in a way that goes achieved stature among her peers. beyond merely producing plants, the Ecke family will receive the AHS National Beyond her dedicated hands-on Achievement Award. endeavors, she has been a one-woman Son and grandson, Paul Jr. and Paul III, have continued to transform Ecke crusade for horticultural therapy, promul­ Poinsettias. Chairman Paul Ecke Jr. oversees all operations at the Ecke Ranch, in­ gating its message with missionary zeal. cluding propagation, hybridization, sales, and service. He was largely responsible She has worked with community agencies for shifting the growing of poinsettias from fields into greenhouses. He has also in developing their own horticultural assembled an expert research staff that has improved poinsettias through such therapy programs and increased public developments as extending color peak and increasing the sturdiness of the stems. knowledge of horticultural therapy by Bringing the experience of a three-year stint at Hewlett-Packard with him, writing articles for the Garden Center Bul­ Paul Ecke III has helped Ecke Poinsettias adapt to the computer age. His first letin, published by the Garden Center of major task was to install an automated order entry system. Since taking over as Greater Cleveland, and the journal of the the company's chief executive officer in March 1991, he has journeyed to Western Reserve Herb Society. Through Denmark to establish a poinsettia nursery there. conferences, workshops, presentations, and one-on-one tutelage, she has helped to educate thousands of professionals and volunteers in the field. From 1989 until the present, she has been president of the American Horticultural Therapy Associa­ tion (AHTA), extending her stay a year to lead the organization through difficult personnel changes. As Steven Davis, executive director of the AHTA, writes in his nominating letter, "she has been intimately involved in the shaping of the profession and the AHTA itself." Scientific Award We estimate that Earth has 10 million species of plants and animals. Unless we change what we are doing, we may lose up to 20 percent of this diversity by the year 2020. We do ha ve a success story, however, for the American dogwood (Cor­ nus florida), a prized native tree slowly being wiped out from the shaded, cool edges of forests by leaf-killing anthrac­ nose. That's why gardeners responded en­ thusiastically when Dr. Elwin R. Orton Jr. of Rutgers University introduced six first­ ever hybrids of C. florida and the Asiatic

American Honiculturist • September 1992 • 5 the physiology of ornamental bulbous and tuberous plants, and within this concentration he has further focused his studies on plant growth regulators and environmental control of flowering, informa­ tion vital to growers. De Hertogh was educated at North Carolina State University (NCSU) and Oregon State University, where he recieved his Ph.D. in 1963. He has held teaching positions at Michigan State University from 1965 to 1978 Jane G. Pepper August De Hertogh Nina L. Bassuk and at NCSU from 1978 until the present. From 1978 to dogwood, C. kousa, crosses resistant to its staff double, its annual budget quin­ 1988 he was head of the department of the virulent anthracnose. After 25 years of tuple, and membership rise to an all-time horticulture at NCSU. research, he has introduced one pink and high. Not the least of her accomplish­ Through his work he has become a sort five white "Stellar" cultivars, with names ments is supervision of the internationally of international horticultural liaison. He such as 'Aurora' and 'Constellation'. prominent Philadelphia Flower Show, made three lengthy study sabbaticals to Orton will receive the AHS Scientific sponsored by the society and considered the Netherlands, in 1972, 1984, and Award, which honors an individual who to be the nation's premier indoor floral 1992. Many of his books and articles has enriched horticulture by dint of exhibition. Covering six acres at the have been published in the Netherlands as outstanding research. Philadelphia Civic Center, it draws a well as the United States. The Dutch have Orton has also contributed pioneering quarter of a million visitors each year as awarded him some of their highest developments in the field of plant well as horticultural exhibitors from horticultural distinctions, including a propagation. One notable contribution around the globe. Pepper has also written Medal of Honor from the Ministry of came as a response to the high losses that a widely read, weekly gardening column Agriculture and Fisheries in 1985 and the were being suffered by shade and street for the Philadelphia Inquirer for more Golden Pin Award from the Dutch Bulb trees when propagated through budding. than a decade. Exporters Association in 1990. In 1988 By using single-node stem cuttings to Pepper's professionalism is contagious he had the rare pleasure of having the reproduce some maple cultivars, he and infects everyone near her- like the 'Professor De Hertogh' hyacinth named showed growers how to avert catastrophe hundreds of devoted volunteers who are in his honor by C. J. Ruigrok and Sons of from graft incompatability. the true heart of the society and the an­ De Zilk, the Netherlands. This is Orton's career in a nutshell: nual flower show-with her enthusiasm identify the problem, solve the problem­ and determination. She evokes dedication Landscape Design Award with a few years of hard work and and admiration from her staff. Under her painstaking research in between. Since leadership, Philadelphia Green, a Oehme, van Sweden and Associates are in 1960 he has applied this formula for community greening and gardening the vanguard of landscape architects who success as a research professor in the program, inspires and educates increasing have cast off the constricting influence of department of horticulture at Rutgers numbers of community gardeners. In his English garden design to create distinctly University. During this time Orton has ebullient letter nominating her for this American gardens. In counterpoint to introduced no fewer than 26 improved award, Donald Felley, chair of the that rigid, rectilinear formalism, the cultivars of plants important to the nurs­ Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, gardens of Wolfgang Oehme and James ery industry and the home garden, and by described Pepper as "a point of light in A. van Sweden are inspired by a natural, doing so, he has come to be recognized as the lives of Philadelphians and beyond." untamed spontaneity. Their work often one of the world's most prominent employs the American meadow as a breeders of woody landscape plants. Teaching Award motif, expressing nature's energy with long ornamental grasses waving and Professional Award When it comes to bulbs, August De Administrator, community activist, Hertogh has fundraiser, organizer, columnist, speaker­ taught even the the many talents of Jane G. Pepper add Dutch a thing or up to make her one of the strongest two. Teacher and leaders in the national horticultural com­ researcher munity. First as executive director, then as extraordinaire, De president of the Pennsylvania Horticul­ Hertogh is a world­ tural Society, she has served beyond the class authority on call of duty for the past eleven years. She flower bulb crops. is the recipient of this year's Professional A professor of hor­ Award, bestowed yearly to recognize the ticultural science at superlative performance of a director of a North Carolina botanical garden or horticultural State University in organization. Raleigh, he has During her tenure with the Pennsyl­ conducted inten­ vania Horticultural Society, she has seen sive research on Wolfgang Oehme James A. van Sweden

6 + American Horticulturist • September 1992 rippling in the wind. hope. Excluding overrun public parks, the posts as program leader of Cornell's Plantings grow unrestrained, without flora in our cities dwindles on the verge Urban Horticulture Institute and staking, pruning, or pesticides, and are of nonexistence and the term "urban vice-chair of the International Society for cut back only at the beginning of the horticulture" seems to be a blatant Horticultural Science's Commission for growing season. Gardens are planted with oxymoron. Now, thanks to people like Urban Horticulture. She has become attention to how they will look year­ Dr. Nina L. Bassuk of Cornell University, patticularly adept at identifying and round, in the sterile bleakness of winter that is beginning to change. An associate offering solutions to physiological as much as in the vibrant lushness of professor in the department of floricul­ problems encountered by plants growing summer. Their gardens harmonize with ture and ornamental horticulture, her in urban environments, from soil the natural environment and emphasize most recent work has been aimed at put­ compaction to salt contamination, from the architectural uniqueness of surround­ ting some greenery back in the scenery. poor drainage to root restriction. ing buildings. Revolutionary leaders of She will receive AHS's Urban Beautifica­ She has developed a systematic plan for the "new American garden style," Oehme tion Award in recognition of her outstand­ successful urban planting that emphasizes and van Sweden will receive AHS's ing accomplishments in that area. three steps: a site assessment thoroughly Landscape Design Award. Though she has conducted significant analyzing such factors as soil Wolfgang Oehme received his educa­ studies on such subjects as transplanting composition, climate, and underground tion and began his career in Germany and plant propagation, her current root barriers; site modification through during the 1950s. He came to the United research, lecturing, and writing reflect her improving Continued on page 24 States in 1957 and designed golf courses, parks, and playgrounds in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1977 he formed a partner­ ship with James van Sweden and became chairman of the firm. The primary hor­ ticulturist, Oehme is always searching for new herbaceous perennials and ornamen­ tal grasses to add to his palette, such as the Senecio doria (groundsel) he saw at a German exhibition and spent four years obtaining for use here. The Perennial Plant Association gave Oehme its Distin­ guished Service Award in 1987. James van Sweden, president of the firm, was educated at the University of Michigan and the University of Delft in the Netherlands. He was assistant town © planner for Amsterdam from 1961 to 1963 and then returned to the United States, where he worked for many years in landscape architecture and urban design. He is known for his keen sense of the spatial demands and local context of Lilypons Water Gardens® each individual project. In 1987 he garnered one of gardening's most coveted Begin your water garden today with a Lilypons catalogue awards, the Thomas Roland Gold Medal featuring page after page of beautiful water lilies, lotus, bog of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. Oehme and van Sweden have many plants,fish, statuary, and the essentials for keeping it all prestigious designs to their credit, includ­ working together. ing North Park in New York City, the German-American Friendship Garden near the Washington Monument, the No pool? Choose afiberglass, EPDM rubber or PVC pool Virginia Avenue Gardens of the Federal Reserve System in Washington, and the from the many sizes shown in the Lilypons catalogue, $5.00. prototypic New American Garden at the U.S. National Arboretum. In 1988, the Call Toll Free to our closest location. Please have credit card handy. partnership won the National Landscape Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover. Award of the American Association of Nurserymen for their work on Maryland 800-723-7667, operator 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue. Their book, Bold, Texas 800-766-5648, operator 1500 Romantic Gardens, an introduction to California 800-685-7667, operator 1500 their design philosophy, won two Awards of Excellence from the Garden Writers of ~------I America Association in 1991. lor mail this coupon with your $5.00 check (MD, TX, CA residents please add tax) to closest address: I Name Lilypons Water Gardens, Dept. 1500 I Urban Beautification (Individual) I P.O. Box 10 IAdmess ______~~ -- Buckeystown, Maryland 21717-0010 I Many city dwellers have gazed at the Apt. P.O. Box 188 I City ______Brookshire, Texas 77423-0188 I asphalt jungle outside their windows and P.O. Box 1130 wished for a patch of something green I Thermal, California 92274-11 30 I and growing. For them, a hint of vegeta­ L-I~______~ ~I tion means an inspiriting sign of life and

American Horticulturist • September 1992 • 7 , Gardeners' Q&A

seedless tomatoes or, if bees have gotten Q: I have a difficult time keeping my to the flowers before they have been small garden tools sharpened. Are there, sprayed, a few small seeds. Tomatoes that any sharpeners available that would have had this treatment may be smaller New GIS Listings simplify this process? Can you offer any and less juicy than identical varieties that advice on sharpening techniques? have not been sprayed. Gardeners' Information Service has A. S., Laredo, Texas This product is made by the Dragon several new resource buHetins: Company, 7033 Walround Drive, • Xeriscaping Plant List for the A: Keeping small garden tools sharp is Roanoke, VA 24019, (800) 533-2488. Western United States; X~riscaping a common problem. Some garden supply They can answer additional questions, Plant List for the Midwest United stores offer sharpeners for specific tools, but do not sell the product to consumers. States; and Xeriscaping Plant List which can simplify this process. American To order Blossom Set by mail contact: for the Eastern United States. Each Arborist offers a wide variety of stones Southern States, 100 Park Street, Vienna, includes ornamental landscape and files for all of your gardening tools. VA 22180, (703) 938-6767. It also can plants that are drought- or low­ You can contact them for a free catalog be found in many garden centers and water-tolerant. at: American Arborist, 882 South hardware stores. - Rebecca LaPointe • Sources for Organic Pestioides Matlack Street, West Chester, PA 19382, AHS 1992 Summer Intern mid Biological Control. This is an (800) 441-838l. updated version. Smith & Hawken carries specialty Q: What summer annuals can I try to • SQurces for Organic Fertilizers. sharpeners for many kinds of garden propagate during the winter to have • Sources for Horticultural Videos. tools. Their free catalog can be obtained plants ready for next spring? • Sources/or Computer Software by writing or calling them at: Smith & A. K, Falls Church, Virginia Programs for Gardening and Hawken, 25 Corte Madera, Mill Valley, Landscape Design. CA 94941, (415) 383-8070. A: Scented geraniums, begonias, im­ • Sources for Horticultural These companies offer such tools as patiens, coleus, fuschias, and ivies would Scholarships. A list of national and ceramic sharpening stones for hand be good annual plants to propagate. regional sources for financial pruners, sharpening kits for pruning For cuttings of these you will need a scholaJ;ships and gral1ts for saws, easily portable field whetstones for healthy plant, scissors or a sharp clean horticulture students at €alleges, scythes, and carrying cases for sharpeners. knife, a sterile rooting medium, rooting universities, or technical schools. Aubrey Glass, the AHS groundskeeper, hormone (optional), a large plastic bag, a maintains sharp tools by using a vice and misting bottle, and a bottom heat source Sources for Horticultural Scholar­ a black diamond "bastard" file. Among (the top of a refrigerator will do) . ships is free with a SASE; other lists his tips for using such a file: Press hard Cut off the top five inches of a stem from are 50 cents each plus a SASE. To and sharpen away from your body and any of these plants. Remove all of the order write GIS at the AHS address. the tool handle; do not drag the file back bottom leaves, leaving only two or three on across the tool blade, which will dull it. the top. Dip the bottom in the rooting Keep the file tilted at the same angle hormone (follow directions on the hormone during the entire process. package) and place the cuttings about two the plant does not slip out of the medium Tools will last and remain sharp if you inches deep in a sterile, moist rooting easily and appears to have a good root care for them properly. Never leave them medium of equal parts peat moss and sand structure, it can be transplanted to a outside after use. Always wipe off dirt or perlite. You will want to cover the larger container. Water thoroughly after and water before storing them. And lastly, container with a plastic bag to maintain a transplanting, then give plants a light an occasional oiling of the hinge point of humid environment for the cuttings; several feeding about once a month until they are shearing and pruning tools will enhance stakes two or three inches taller than the transplanted into the garden in spring. If their performance. - Amy Davis cuttings will keep the plastic from touching plants become too leggy, pinch them back AHS 1992 Summer Intern them. Open the bag about three times a as they grow, and/or provide full week to provide air circulation; water spectrum lighting over the cuttings. Q: I have heard that there is a product when the rooting medium becomes dry to To have bedding plants ready for next that will allow me to grow seedless the touch on top. An alternative to using spring, you can begin taking cuttings from tomatoes. Any information on this would a plastic bag is misting the cuttings plants in your garden as early as Septem­ be appreciated. several times a day, but a plastic bag ber, or from potted plants brought indoors G. W. D., Calistoga, California helps ensure that cuttings will not dry out. as late as February. For more information Set the container on top of a refrigerator on rooting each type of plant, call the A: There is a product on the market or other warm surface. Cuttings will need AHS Gardeners' Information Service at called Blossom Set that will allow you to light, but not direct sunlight. You can (800) 777-7931 Monday through Friday grow seedless tomatoes. Blossom Set is a purchase bottom-heating cables made for between 11 :30 a.m. and 3 p.m. Eastern tomato bloom spray or fruit set initiator. this purpose at most garden centers. They Daylight Savings Time. - R. L. The active chemical ingredient is will supply a steady, warm soil temperature, para-chlorophenoxyacetic acid. It especially helpful in winter when it is dif­ Amy Davis is a senior in the landscape contains a hormone that will initiate fruit ficult to keep soil temperatures in the 70- to architecture department at the University set through nonsexual fertilization. It 75-degree range optimal for most cuttings. of California-Davis. Rebecca LaPointe is should be sprayed on blossoms as soon as After a month or two, tug gently on a a sophomore majoring in horticulture at they are fully open. You will get totally cutting to see if roots have developed. If Utah State College.

8 • American Horticulturist • September 1992 Regional Notes California Weed Controversy

In a movement towards what critics see as have halted the production of important only the invasive Cortaderia jubata was biological isolationism, native plant agricultural crops. It also bifurcated the named on the initial bill, while C. societies and conservation organizations listed plants into "exotic weeds," or selloana was left off. The pampas grass is have been drafting or supporting state and permissible non-natives, and "noxious a particularly noxious example, explains local legislation intended to protect and weeds," or threatening non-natives, Barnes, because keen-edged, lacerating promote native plants. Often the sweeping terminology that further complicated the blades make it dangerous and difficult to language of the bills, if enacted, would already difficult language of the remove. radically affect agriculture, the nursery legislation. The compromise legislation will industry, and even home gardening. CNPS claims the bill was meant to elaborate on an existing Department of The laws seek to prohibit the introduc­ protect native plants and their ecosystems Food and Agriculture law that divides tion of plant species deemed invasive or from invasive non-natives. In many cases, weeds into A, B, C, or D lists. Plants from inimical to the native plants of a specific these plants originate in commercial the A list are prohibited statewide, while region. In spite of the good intentions of nurseries but metastasize in the wild and plants from the B, C, and D lists are the drafters, however, the practical effect supplant natives. CNPS Executive banned from only selected counties and often results in the outlawing of Secretary Allen Barnes uses pampas grass other geographic regions. The original bill important agricultural and horticultural as an example. Two species are widely sought to move many taxa from the B, C, crops; in a few cases, the proposed laws used as ornamentals in California, but and D lists onto the A list. would even proscribe the very native plants they seek to protect. So far, nursery associations and other groups The Latest on Loosestrife have usually succeeded in modifying the bills or in preventing their passage. The Eurasian purple loosestrife, Lythrum salicaria, and could as a result evolve into A bill now before the appropriations saiicaria, is a plant that environmental even more invasive weeds. committee of the California state groups point to when they argue for laws Researchers Peter Ascher and Neil legislature originally named as "weeds" banning exotic plants. Anderson crossed 17 loosestrife cultivars an extensive list of plants, including all All Lythrum species and cultivars are with the species and found that they set Fabaceae--alternately known as banned in Minnesota, where the plant has as many or more seeds than the wild Leguminosae- a family that consists of taken over wetlands, displacing both species and produced fertile offspring. If more than 600 genera and 12,000 native plants and the animals for which by chance a garden cultivar-usually species, among them peas, beans, vetch, they provid~d food and shelter. crosses of the Eurasian L. virgatum and clover, lupines, and acacias. The bill was The nursery industry has protested the the American native winged loosestrife, introduced by State Rep. Robert ban, arguing that the cultivars are sterile L. alatum- were to cross with L. Campbell (D.-Richmond) and supported and pose no danger of spreading. How­ saiicaria, the results could be plants that by the California Native Plant Society. ever, recent studies by two University of are as fertile as the purple loosestrife but Bob Burka, legislative vice president of Minnesota horticultural scientists hint able to grow in drier conditions, as the the California Native Plant Society that the cultivars can cross with L. winged loosestrife does. (CNPS), says the naming of Fabaceae was an honest mistake that "never should have been committed to paper." Regional Resources The California Association of Nur­ serymen (CAN) has backed a compromise J. C. Raulston, director of the North enterprises and public herb gardens" is bill, which according to legislative Carolina State University Arboretum and available from the Empire Herb Trail, director Bob Falconer effectively "gutted known for bringing new and unusual Box 640, Trumansburg, NY 14886. Send the original," buffering its radical ornamentals to the attention of the a large, self-addressed stamped envelope. language and eliminating the listing nursery trade, has published a source list Desert dwellers may want to order the format. Falconer believes that the bill's of 7,625 ornamental plants grown in his fifth in a series of booklets from the drafters intended to restrict only a hand­ state. Since North Carolina has become a Arizona Native Plant Society describing ful of truly threatening plants and other hotbed of innovative nurseries- Raulston decorative, low-water-use plants that hazardous plants that might appear in the notes that 6,481 of the plants listed are perform well in the Southwest. This future. He also thinks the original plant available from only one source, and 785 52-page booklet focuses on accent plants, list might have been designed with from only two sources- the list should be including cacti, other succulents, and "built-in bargaining room" to force of interest to adventurous gardeners other xerophytes. It has growing instruc­ concerned parties to the negotiating table. outside that area. North Carolina Grown tions for all the plants recommended, and The problem with this and similar is available for $6 (Raulston notes that it 47 color photographs. Previously proposals seems to be a linguistic one. would cost $20 to buy all the catalogs published booklets described desert Such bills tend to contain poor phrasing represented) by writing to the NCSU shrubs, wildflowers, trees, and ground that, if followed to the letter, would far Arboretum-Source Guide, Box 7609, covers and vines. For each booklet, send outstrip the authors' intent. NCSU, Raleigh, NC 27695-7609. $2 to the society at P.O. Box 41206, Sun Falconer points out that a bill drafted For herb lovers in or near New York, a Station, AZ 85717. Discounts are to protect agriculture in the state would free guide to the state's "herbal available when ordering 10 or more.

American Horticulturist· September 1992 • 9 AHS Bulletin Board I

,r, ------~ ------~ ------______~ Board Members and Officers Nominated , , Terms have expired for two AHS Board .. David M. Lilly joined the Board in AHS Board of Members: Second Vice President Richard 1989. For 23 years he was the chief execu­ C. Angino has served three terms; former tive of the Toro Company; he resigned in Directors Proxy AHS President Dr. Henry Marc Cathey 1976 to accept a presidential appoint­ has completed his second term as a Board ment to the Federal Reserve Bo.ard. Notice of Election in conjunction Member. They will step down at the .. Elvin McDonald was director of with the 47th Annual Meeting of special projects at the Brooklyn Botanic Annual Meeting in October. Richard L. the American Horticultural Society. Lower, whose biography also appeared in Garden before moving to Houston, Texas, Cut 0ut proxy and return by the July News Edition, and William F. this spring. He is an author, photographer, October 1 to: President, AHS, 7931 Brinton have been nominated to the two and editor and was co-founder of Flower East Boulevard Drive, Alexandria, vacant Board positions. Several other and Garden magazine. McDonald joined VA 22308-1300. Board Members are seeking reelection. the Board in 1989, has served as I will not be able to attend the Secretary for the last two years, and has Annual Meeting of the American New Nominees chaired the AHS Publications Committee. Horticultural Society on October 15, .. Jane N. Scarff is vice president of a 1992. Please assign my proxy to AHS .. William F. Brinton is president of the five-generation production nursery, President, George C. Ball Jr., or to Woods End Research Laboratory in Scarff's Nursery, in New Carlisle, Ohio. Mount Vernon, Maine, an ag);icultural She has served on the boards of the and environmental research and consult­ Horticultural Research Institute of the ing firm, and executive director of the American Association of Nurseryman and to cast my ballot in the annual election Woods End Institute, an environmental the U.S. National Arboretum. She became of the Society's Board of Directors, and and agricultural education organization. a Board Member in 1989. to cast my ballot in other matters that He is a consultant on composting .. Helen Fulcher Walutes, a local may be brought before the Annual problems and has developed composting attorney, also joined the Board in 1989. Meeting with the same effect as though recipes for such diverse products as food She has served as First Vice President I were personally present. processing residues, potato culls, Gulf since 1990 and was named acting V0te for eight: and coastal fish scraps, blue crab scraps, executive director of AHS this past George C. Ball Jr. woolen fibers, and agricultural wastes. February. She also has been president of o Dr. Sherran Blair The Wall Street Journal has called the Alexandria Council of Garden Clubs. o William F. Brinton Brinton "the Julia Child of garbage." o o David M. Lilly .. Richard L. Lower is associate dean Officer Nominations of the College of Agricultural and Life o Richard L. Lower Elvin McDonald Sciences at the University of Wisconsin­ New Officers also will be elected to the o Jane N. Scarff Madison. He has worked as a vegetable Board of Directors at the Annual o Helen Fuloher Walutes breeder and geneticist and has taught in Meeting. The nominees are: o the department of horticultural sciences .. George C. Ball Jr., President. at North Carolina State University and in .. Sarah S. Boasberg, First Vice Write· in Candidate the department of horticulture at the President. Currently head of the AHS University of Wisconsin-Madison. Lower Annual Meeting Committee, Boasberg, of Write-in Candidate is past president and chair of the Washington, D.C., is a landscape designer American Society of Horticultural Science. and teaches courses in the history of gar­ Officer Nominations, vote for five: den design and garden preservation at o George C. Ball Jr., President Sarah S. Boasberg, First Vice Candidates for Reelection George Washington University. She has o been a membe); of AHS for 17 years and President .. George C. Ball Jr. is chairman of the became a Board Member in 1990. o Dr. William E. Barrick, Second Vice President board, chief executive officer, and .. Dr. William E. Barrick, Second Vice David M. Lilly, Secretary president of W. Atlee Burpee & President. Barrick is executive vice o Gerald T. Halpin, Treasurer Company. He also is president of the president and director of gardens at o Flowerseed Group of PanAmerican Seed Callaway Gardens in Pine Mountain, Company, a division of George J. Ball, Georgia. He also joiFled the Board in Write-in Candidate Inc., in West Chicago, Illinois. He joined 1990 and serves on the boards of the the AHS Board in 1989 and became American Association of Botanical Name President in 1990. Gardens and Arboreta and the Longwood .. Dr. Sherran Blair is president and Gardens Visiting Committee. Address chief executive officer of the First .. David M. Lilly, Secretary.

Community Bank in Columbus, Ohio. .. Gerald T. Halpin, Treasurer. Halpin City I State I Zip Blair organized the "Great Gardeners of became a Board Member in 1990 and is America" lecture series in conjunction running for his second term as AHS , Signature Date , with AmeriFlora '92. She has been a Treasurer. He is president of the West ,I Board Member since 1989. Company, a Washington, D.C., developer. ~ ______J

10 .. American Horticulturist. September 1992 Gardeners' Dateline

Mid-Atlantic • Oct. 6-10. Professional Plant • Oct. 10-11. Bromeliad Show and Growers International Conference and Sale. Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, • Sept. 25-27. Second Annual Oatlands Trade Show. Grand Rapids, Michigan. Sarasota, Florida. Information: Spencer Garden Fair. Oatlands Plantation. Infor­ Information: Professional Plant Growers Ketchum, (813) 366-5731. mation: Melissa York, Route 2, Box 352, Association, P.O. Box 27517, Lansing, Leesburg, VA 22075, (703) 777-3174. MI 48909, (517) 694-7700. • Oct. 25-31. Safeguarding the Food Supply Through Irradiation Processing • Oct. 7-8. Garden Club of Virginia Northeast Techniques. Orlando, Florida. 56th Annual Rose Show. Virginia Beach, Information: Agricultural Research Virginia. Presented by the Princess Anne • Sept. 20. Arnold Arboretum Annual Institute, 9650 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, Garden Club. Information: Jane Plant Sale. Case Estates, Weston, MD 20814-3998, (301) 530-7122. Hemingway, 1305 Bay Shore Drive, Massachusetts. Information: Nan Sinton, Virginia Beach, VA 23451, (804) 496-7367. (617) 524-1718. Southwest

• Oct. 10-11. New Jersey State • Oct. 3. Pumpkin Weigh-Off. Collins, • Sept. 18-19. American Association of Chrysanthemum Society 39th Annual New York. Sponsored by the World Botanical Gardens and Arboreta Inter­ Chrysanthemum Show. Frelinghuysen Pumpkin Confederation. Information: mountain Regional Annual Conference. Arboretum, Morristown, New Jersey. Ray Waterman, (716) 532-5995. "Exploring the Human Connection in the Information: Rita Detlefsen, 427 South Botanical Equation." Albuquerque, New Feltus Street, South Amboy, NJ • Oct. 5. Gardens of Whitemarsh Hall. Mexico. Information: Dale Sokkary, 08879-1508, (908) 721-4999. Illustrated lecture. Longwood Gardens, (505) 768-3550. Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. Information: • Oct. 20. Perennials for the Landscape Longwood Gardens, Continuing Education, • Sept. 26. The A-maizing Aztecs! and Garden Center Industries Symposium. P.O. Box 501, Kennett Square, PA 19348- Exhibit. Denver Botanic Gardens, Denver, Scott Arboretum, Swarthmore College, 0501, (215) 388-6741, ext. 516. Colorado. Information: (303) 331-4400. Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. Information: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, 325 • Oct. 19-21. New England Green­ • Oct. 24-25. Albuquerque Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106. house Conference. Sturbridge Village, Chrysanthemum Society 22nd Annual Massachusetts. Information: Richard J. Show. Albuquerque, New Mexico. Infor­ • Oct. 20-24. Ikebana International Shaw, Department of Plant Sciences, 202 mation: Louise Leonard, (505) 298-4939. 12th North American Regional Greenhouses, University of Rhode Island, Conference. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Kingston, RI 02881-0804, (401) 792-5996. West Coast Information: Ikebana International, Rural Route 2, Box 110, Sewell, NJ 08080, South Central • Sept. 12, 26, and Oct. 10. Learning (609) 468-2824. to Grow Your Own: An Introduction to • Oct. 9-10. Southern Garden Plant Propagation. Santa Barbara Botanic North Central Symposium. St. Francisville, Louisiana. In­ Garden, Santa Barbara, California. formation: Southern Garden Symposium, Information: (805) 682-4726. • Sept. 10-13. American Ivy Society P.O. Box 2075, St. Francisville, LA 70775. Convention. "Ivies for Every Garden." • Sept. 19. Seducing the Butterfly. Columbus, Ohio. Information: Sabina Southeast Lecture. University of California Sulgrove, (513) 434-7069. Botanical Garden, Berkeley, California. • Oct. 9-10. Tennessee Gesneriad Information: (510) 642-3343. • Sept. 26-29. Association of Society Show and Sale. Cheekwood, Zoological Horticulture Annual Nashville, Tennessee. Information: Leslie • Oct. 22-23. Sixth Annual Xeriscape Conference. St. Louis Zoo, St. Louis, Dyer, (615) 741-1931. Conference. "Xeriscape '92-San Diego Missouri. Information: Gary Wangler, St. Style." San Diego, California. Informa­ Louis Zoo, Forest Park, St. Louis, MO tion: Jan Tubiolo, (619) 443-1756. 63110, (314) 781-0900. In terna ti onal • Sept. 26-Nov. 15. Mum Show. River Farm Events "Exploring New Horizons." Foellinger­ • Oct. 17. Uncommon Tree Sale and Freimann Botanical Conservatory, Fort AHS will hold an indoor plant sale Festival. VanDusen Botanical Garden, Wayne, Indiana. Information: Dennis and a lecture by Cindy Cotton, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Noak, Foellinger-Freimann Botanical owner of Cityscape, Inc., on Information: (604) 266-7194. Conservatory, 1100 South Calhoun Street, October 3 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. A Fort Wayne, IN 46802, (219) 427-1267. new fountain will be dedicated in • Oct. 19-25. Trurd International memory of former Board Member Botanic Gardens Conservation Congress. • Oct. 3-4. The 30th Annual Gourd Mary Stuart Maury on October 14 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Information: Show. Morrow County Fairgrounds, from 4 to 6 p.m. Admission is free Jardim Botanico do Rio de Janeiro, Rua Mount Gilead, Ohio. Information: John to both events. Call (800) 777-7931. Jardim Botanico 1008, 22.460 Rio de Stevens, 4681 Township Road 116, Mount Janeiro, Brazil; phone: 2129460121294 Gilead, OH 43338, (419) 946-3302. 6947, Fax: 274 4897.

American H orticul turist· September 1992 • 11 Gardeners' Bookshelf

espaliered plums, pears, and apples. As for that townhouse pumpkin patch: some lumber, wire, and old panty hose for slings will help expand your vertical possibilities. The final word is simply to see your space in a new way, and start thinking vertically. -Joseph M . Keyser, Director of Programs Gardener's Latin A Lexicon by Bill Neal. Workman Publishing Company, New York, 1992. 135 pages. Two-tone illustrations. 61fi' x 71/4". Publisher's price, hardcover: $14.95. AHS member price: $12.75.

This little book is, well, pretty. The jacket is silky and eye-catching and the botanical illustrations throughout are endearingly old-fashioned. It is far from complete, but would make a wonderful paint the meadows with delight." present for that friend who still feels Among minor annoyances were the odd skittish about speaking in binomials. little arrows used to connect the drawings My first reaction was that most of the on a page with th€ir word definitions. A Latin words defined-and the author has caption, however tiny, might have been chosen to include only species names­ preferable. And th€ names of many plants Trellising were too obvious. But the meaning of won't appear here because they were Rhonda Massingham Hart. Storey Latin root words is often only apparent named for people, and have their own fas­ Publishing, Pownal, Vermont, 1992. after the fact, especially for those who cinating stories. But that would be a much 154 pages. 6" x 9". Black-and-white have not been schooled in this "dead" bigger book. For the Latinophobe, this is a illustrations. Publisher's price, softcover: language. Of course dentosus means friendly beginning. $10.95. AHS member price: $9.50. "toothed," but we're more likely to -Kathleen Fisher, Editor remember it after we make the mental As urban sprawl continues to nibble away connection, however unpleasant, to our ( "------,- - - ..,.. --- --.- ..,....,.._ ..,..... ------=j I 1 our living space, Americans are finding dentist. There's only a couple of letters , their gardening space similarly getting difference between that specific epithet smaller. Townhouse plots seldom permit and densatus, which-of course!-means Book Order Form the luxury of rambunctious pumpkin dense or crowded. patches, while quarter-acre subdevelop­ I would not have guessed that lagopus o Trellising • . . . • $ 9.50 ments are a close second in their overall meant hare-footed, or that a plant o Gardener's Latin . $12.75 limitations. described as ptarmicus might cause me to I would like to order books. For those of us who cannot easily sneeze. Thus we might know that the expand outward, the answer is to think goldenrod, Solidago speciosa, does not Postage and handling: $2.50, first book; vertically. Trellising is an adventurous look cause sneezing, but is "showy, good-look­ $1.50, each additional book. Virginia at all of the possibilities for "growing up," ing." A species called hypnoides won't residents add 4lf2% sales tax. Please allow six weeks for delivery. Prices artl and sets out a host of trellis and support put one to sleep, but resembles a moss. subject to change without notice. designs, from recycled materials and a Oreophilus has nothing to do with rustic, frontier look to elaborate espalier cookies, but means "mountain loving." D Enclosed is my cheek for $ ___- frames and the grace of arches and arbors. Neal, a chef and cookbook author who o Charge to: New gardeners-and veterans looking died soon after writing this book, lists as OVisa o MasrerGard Exp. Dare: __

to get away from just another bean his only other horticultural achievement Accr. #: _~ ______tepee-will get some imaginative ideas the editing of Elizabeth Lawrence's Signarure: _------from the chapters treating clinging and Charlotte Observer garden columns into ornamental vines and espaliered fruit the book, Through the Garden Gate. Ship to: _~-~-~------

trees. Like Mary Riley Smith's The Front Here he has collected snippets from her Streer: _____~ -~~--- Garden or Rosalind Creasy's crusade for and other writers-folklore, myths, City: the edible landscape, Hart's Trellising is a stories, and poems-that should strengthen lesson in rethinking the traditional our recollection of plant names. For SrareiZip: landscape: getting multiple benefits from example, it might help to remember the Da~ime phone number: ___~ ____ the same space, however small. Privacy species name for lady-smock, Cardamine I fences can provide support for a host of pratensis, which means "growing in Mail to; AHS Books, 7931 East Boulevard : Drive, Alexandria, VA 22308-1300. 9/92 ! edible or ornamental vines, property lines meadows," if we recall Shakespeare , I can be set off with a living wall of describing them among flowers that "do b ______~ __ _ _ " _~ __ _ _ ~ ~ __ _, ______oJ

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Through publicizing these programs, we will reinforce our services of the American Horticultural Society possible leadership role in the promotion of horticultural education. through your dues and extraordinary contributions, which • Seed Program. Our members-only, free seed catalog includes this year totalled $483,800. Your interests undergo more than 200 varieties and species, from herbaceous and Iconstant change, and change is taking place at AHS. We are in woody cultivated ornamentals to vegetables and wildflowers. transition from a strictly ornamentals-oriented society to one This is a tangible link both to our past-AHS was founded to that embraces the entire horticultural field. We are branching out distribute new varieties from plant expeditions and laboratories into the national community with many programs that reflect to the U.S. horticultural and nursery communities-and to our and benefit our culturally and regionally diverse members and members' gardens. We change the assortment every year to affiliated groups. We are refocusing our resources to strengthen include little-known varieties of genuine interest. In 1993, there horticultural education for members and nonmembers, to will be a special emphasis on edible plants, especially heirloom promote enlightened horticultural practices among all gardeners, varieties. and to develop an awareness of the importance of horticulture • Publications. Our publications, because of their high visibility, among nongardeners. remain the cornerstone of AHS education efforts. They "acquire, We test each new program or activity against our mission, "to develop, and disseminate horticultural information and knowledge" acquire, develop, and disseminate horticultural information and more efficiently than anything we do. While many other gardening knowledge." In this we follow the tradition established by the magazines are publishing fewer issues this year, we plan to remain founders of the Society in 1922, for whom the sharing of constant in our size and frequency while growing in scope. Next information and knowledge was the top priority. We will do our year our magazine will both present familiar features, such as the utmost to keep you up to date with all new developments in the "Proven Performers" articles written by representatives of national field, and we intend not only to maintain our high level of plant societies, and broaden its contents to cover some of the benefits and services in the next year, but to expand and improve environmental issues perplexing today's gardeners. Our News member programs. These efforts will include: Edition, which was increased in size three years ago, will continue • Awards. Each year we fulfill our mission by identifying, to offer lively and timely news on issues, trends, and research. We recognizing, and promoting horticultural excellence. We always welcome member participation in our publications, through publicize great horticultural achievement by individuals and our letters columns as well as news tips, gardening questions and groups in order to inspire others and to share knowledge that ideas, or suggestions for feature articles. our award winners have developed. Beginning with this Looking further ahead, we will continue to develop and ex­ October's Annual Meeting, we will feature the award winners as pand our education programs. In the next several years we will the main speakers so that members will gain additional insight address the needs of interested young adults and other segments into the work that is being recognized. of the nongardening public. We wish that everyone we affect • Gardeners' Information Service. Our toll-free telephone would become a member. However, we will fulfill our mission if consultation service experienced a 25 percent increase in calls we inform, inspire, or educate present and future gardeners and this year. As a result, we will be recruiting additional volunteer horticulturists. This is the greatest change we've undergone: to gardening experts and upgrading our information database. view our constituency as including nonmembers, to fulfill our • Compost Initiative. The return of organic matter to the soil mission to raise the level of awareness of the importance of to supply nutrients is critical to both the plants we grow and the plants, gardening, and horticulture in the private and public lives environment in which we live. Our National Home Composting of all our nation's citizens. Park is a base for evaluation and demonstration, with In conclusion, we on the Board pledge to carry out our information disseminated through our publications as well as responsibilities to lead the Society. We thank all of you whose regional symposia and lectures. We are also reaching out to generous contributions have made progress possible. We wish all businesses, government agencies, and other community groups of our members success in their gardening endeavors, and ask for whom we hope to serve as a catalyst for change from that they let us know what they would like to see happen in their chemical-dependent to more natural gardens, and from American Horticultural Society. . burgeoning landfills to the recycling of yard trimmings. • Student and Teacher Internships. We have four interns this George C. Ball Jr., AHS President summer- two students and two teachers. They are learning ornamental and vegetable gardening as well as landscape design P.S. Elizabeth Smith, who has served the Society for more than at River Farm, nearby Mount Vernon, and other private and six years, is retiring. Many of you will remember her as our public gardens in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. Annual Meeting coordinator. In all of her capacities, she will be Through the teacher internships, which are new this year, the greatly missed.

14 + American Horticulturist • September 1992 Mrs. Louise Emling 1991-1992 Mr. Richard D. Erb Mrs. Thomas Fisher Jr. Contributions Mrs. Martin B. Foil Jr. Dr. W. G. Gambill Jr. The Development Office of Dr. & Mrs. V. Gangadharan the American Horticultural Mr. Charles B. Gardiner Society is pleased to fresent Mrs. Reynolds Girdler this report of Annua Giving Mrs. Charles Goodwin to the Society, which covers Mrs. W. S. Graham the fiscal year, July 1, 1991 to Mr. James W. Grant June 30, 1992. On behalf of Mrs. George P. Greenhalgh the Board of Directors and Mrs. B. H. Griswold III staff of the Society, we Mr. & Mrs. Graham Harrison gratefully acknowledge the Mr. John D. Hartwick many gifts and contributions Miss Margaret Headley totaling $483,800 that Dr. Laura Heid enabled the Society to meet its Haupt Associates Mrs. Marjorie W. Gleim Mr. E. L. Heminger budgetary needs for operating Gifts of $2,500 to $4,999 Mrs. Elizabeth L. Helmholz Mrs. R. F. Hemphill expenses, programs, and Mr. & Mrs. Paul Icenogle Mrs. J. A. Hendrick services during a period of Men's Garden Club of Mr. Joseph Y. Jeanes Mr. & Mrs. John E. Hepschmidt national economic recession. Montgomery County Koven Foundation Herb Society of America- For all these outstanding gifts Mr. Walter Leinhardt Potomac Unit of support, our sincere thanks. Morrison Associates Ms. Judith Kaye Nadler Dr. & Mrs. James B. Horne Your contributions have truly Gifts of $1,000 to $2,499 Mrs. Walter H. Page Mr. A. C. Hubbard Jr. made a difference in our Mrs. R. W. Pinger Mr. & Mrs. Clark Hunter ability to fulfill AHS's mission Mrs. Elspeth G. Bobbs Mr. E. F. Price Mr. Richard Hupfel to inform, educate, and inspire Ms. Margaret Dorrance Rare Plant Group-GCA Ms. C. L. Hurley people of all ages to become Mr. & Mrs. William H. Greer Jr. Ms. Lynne Redmond Mr. Robert A. Izard successful, environmentally Mr. & Mrs. Samuel M. V. Hamilton Mrs. Barrow Ryding Mr. Robert S. Jackson responsible gardeners. Mr. Cia ude Hope Mr. Donald A. Schuder Margot & Stuart Jacobs Mr. & Mrs. Ellice McDonald Mrs. Sally Sears Mr. Hans Jacobson Mrs. Paul Mellon Mr. Theodore N. Yelich Mr. William E. John Mrs. Pendleton Miller Mr. & Mrs. Morse Johnson Special Gifts Mr. & Mrs. Samuel H. Moerman The Garden Friends Club Mrs. John W. Kelsey Mrs. Carol Morrison Gifts of $100 to $249 Mrs. Ellen B. Kennelly Mr. Richard C. Angino Mrs. M. Rockefeller Mrs. R. Grice Kennelly Mr. George C. Ball Jr. Strawbridge Foundation Mr. James Abshagen Mr. W. G. Kirchner Mrs. Sarah S. Boasberg Mr. & Mrs. I. C . Van Meter Mrs. Sidney C. Alden Mrs. J. K. Knorr III Mr. Gerald T. Halpin Mrs. Marillyn B. Wilson Dr. Carman B. Bahr Mrs. William C. Knox Leonard Haerrter Travel Company Mrs. Ruby Sewell Bailey Ms. H. M. Koskenlinna Mr. David M. Lilly 1922 Founders Associates Mrs. Dorothy Bayerle Mrs. R. D. Laidlaw Mrs. Josephine Shanks Gifts of $500 to $999 Ms. L. Beving Dr. & Mrs. Thomas G. 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McGahey Special Grants Mrs. Stanley Stone Mr. Patrick Conley Mr. Dennis C. McGlade Mrs. George Strawbridge Ms. Victoria R. Cordova Ms. Louise McLott Clark-Winchcole Foundation Mrs. J. Fife· Symington Mrs. Erastus Coming II Ms. Rhona Meislik Philip Morris Companies, Inc. Sir John H. R. Thouron Mrs. Margery Hale Crane Mr. John C. Mitchell Wellington Civic Association Mrs. Homer D. Crotty Mr. Travis G. Morgan Dalen Products, Inc. Mr. Graham Morrison The Garden Classics Club Mr. M. N. Dana Mrs. Christopher L. Moseley Annual Appeal Gifts of $250 to $499 Aldys C. Davis Mr. S. R. Mountsier III Mrs. George L. Davis Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Grover C. Murray October 15,1991 to June 30, Ms. Marguerite Anderson Jerry & Kathryn Davis Mrs. Charlotte A. Neal 1992. Mrs. Nicholas J. Baker Mrs. Murdoch Davis Mr. David W. Newman Mrs. John A. Becker Mrs. W. N. Deramus III Ms. Alice C. Nicolson George Washington Associates Mrs. Sarah S. Boasberg Mrs. Alfred J. Dickinson III Mr. Stephen E. Norman Gifts of $10,000 or more Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Bryan III Mr. Tom Dodd Jr. Mrs. J. E. Norwood Mrs. Sonya L. Burgher Mrs. George Doolittle Mrs. June E. O'Brien Mr. George C. Ball Jr. Mr. Francis H. Cabot Mr. & Mrs. W. John Driscoll Ohara School of Japanese Elower Dr. Henry Marc Cathey Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence H. Dunlap Arranging Liberty Hyde Bailey Associates Sarah & Donald Cavanaugh Mrs. Beverley White Dunn Mr. Richard Osborne Gifts of $5,000 to $9,999 Collingwood Garden Club Mrs. Troy Earhart Ms. Janet Osteryoung Mr. Timothy M. Cornell Mr. George P. Edmonds Mr. & Mrs. Harry B. Overesch Mr. & Mrs. Glen Charles Devor Nurseries, Inc. Mr. William Egan Mrs. Walter H. Page Mrs. Donald B. Straus Mrs. George B. Gardner Mrs. Martha H. Ellis Mr. C. W. Eliot Paine

American Horticulturist. September 1992 .. 15 Mr. & Mrs. John L. Paseur Ms. Mary M . Grula Mrs. R. A. Patterson Ms. Wanda Gustaveson Mr. William A. Patterson Ms. Janice Hagberg Frank H. Pearl, Esq. Mrs. G. E. Hall Ms. Rebecca K. Phillips Mrs. R. E. Hampson Mrs. Sue R. Pittman Mrs. Barbara A. Hanlon Ms. Bernice Pivarnik Mr. Robert C. Harnden Pohick Garden Club Ms. Donnie Marie Harrison Miss Persis Pooley Mrs. Thomas L. Hartman Ms. Elizabeth Reese Mr. Paul H . Harvey Mr. Frances Richardson Ms. Flora Y. Hasegawa Mrs. William C. Ridgway Jr. Ms. Susan Hawk Mr. & Mrs. John Roberts Ms. Ralph Head Mrs. Lake Robertson Ms. Florence P. Heriot Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Rose Ms. Catherine W. Herman Ms. Joanna S. Rose Mr. George E. Hill Mrs. George Ely Russell Ms. Kiki Hillman Dr. Richard R. Ryan Mr. Donald L. Ayres Miss Irene Crosby Mrs. George P. Hinckley Mrs. R. B. Saxon Mrs. Alfred J. Baeslack Miss E. T. Curry Ms. J. A. Hopkins Mr. Robert Sayler Mrs. Jeanne H. Baetjer Ms. Penelope T. Curtis Mr. & Mrs. Todd R. W. Horn Ms. Edith Schafer Dr. William E. Barrick Ms. Jane Christina Dahl Mrs. William E. Houser Mr. V. Kenneth Sc:hendel Ms. Mary Alice Baumberger Mrs. Walter Darden Mr. & Mrs. Allen D. Housley Mrs. August H. Schilling Ms. Doris Ba ynes Mr. Frank Daspit Mr. John]. Howley Ms. Christine Schlichting Rev. Tom Beebe Ms. Gael R. Daugherty Howard & Beth Hudgins Mrs. Edwin A. Seipp Ms. Erma A. Bell Ms. Faith Davies Dr. Marilyn Huheey Dr. & Mrs. Arthur Seski Mr. H. Hampton Bell Ms. Caroline F. Dawes Ms. Marsha P. Hussey Mrs. Marie Shaw Mrs. K. Bergey Ms. Rita Dawson Mr. Lewis]. Hutchinson Mrs. Winfield Shiras Ms. Carole F. Bergmann Ms. Catherine L. Dax Ms. Sally Huxley Mr. Earl E. Shouse Mrs. Peter A. Bergsten Mr. Howard Decova Ms. Fay B. Ireland Ms. Kathryne C. Simons Mrs. Jeanne Berry Mrs. F. Stanton Deland Jr. Ms. Lisa R. Jarrett Mr. & Mrs. Morgan Sinclaire Mr. William Berry Ms. Cynthia Almeida Desa Mrs. Peter Jay Mrs. J. F. Skelton Mr. Peter W. Bickers Ms. Katherine DesMarais Mrs. Malcolm Jayred Mrs. John Smale Mrs. E. S. Bischoff Dr. Ruth S. Dickie Dr. Mary L. Jelks Dr. J. Walter Smyth Dr. Gail Blakley Mr. & Mrs. Clarence Dodge Jr. Ms. Ann Jones Mrs. Peter Spalding Jr. Mrs. Henry V. Blaxter Ms. Sheila L. Dougan Ms. Elizabeth Lloyd Jones Mrs. C. L. Stover Ms. Lynne Blei Ms. Effie M. Douglas Mr. George Kahler Dr. AIlN D. Stuckey Ms. Eugenie Bolger Mr. Billy D. Douglass Mrs. Clarence Kamps Mr. Carl S. Szymanski Mr. J. B. Booth Mr. John L. Due Ms. Anne E. Karlo Mrs. Bruce Thorne Mrs. Douglas Borden Mrs. Robert W. Duemling Mrs. Doris B. Katz Tom Dodd Nurseries, Inc. Mr. Edwin Borgh Jr. Mr. Joseph F. Duplinsky Ms. Micaela Katz Mrs. Catherine Trefethen Ms. Evelyn Boyd Mrs. Phil Duryee Mrs. Carol Kellerman Ms. Evelyn R. Urrere Mrs. Eugenia Rowe Bradford Mrs. Troy Earhart Ms. Sheila S. Kelley Mr. Duane Vetter Ms. Rhea Brennwasser Ms. Sydney Eddison Mrs. John M. Kemper Mrs. Joan F. Vogel Mrs. Roger W. Brett Ms. Elizabeth Edward Mrs. Betty Kennedy Ms. Judy D. Wagner Mrs. Ellis L. Brown Ms. Louise Einhorn Dr. Carol Kennedy Mr. Herman R. Wallitsch Mrs. Fitzhugh L. Brown Ms. Julie Elfving Ms. Patricia Anne Kenny Mrs. G. F. Warner Mrs. Harriet C. Brown Ms. Nikila Ellis Mrs. Ray M . Kessler Mr. C. H. C. Weeks Mrs. John C. Bullard Ms. Lavelle M. Erickson Mrs. Garfield King Mrs. M. Weisemann Mr. Thornton W. Burnet Mrs. Scott L. Ernest Mr. Y. Kirkpatrick Howat Ms. Deborah D. Wendel Mrs. Edward L. Burnham Mrs. Robert C. Eschweiler Mr. Edmond G. Kolycheck Mr. John L. Werner Mr. Robert Burns Mrs. K. N. Espenak Mr. Peter Kosiba Mr. Jack H. Wiggins Ms. Barbara J. Busby Ms. Anne L. Evans Mr. Edward J. Kratovil Dr. Margaret C. Winston Mrs. Martha F. Butler Mr. B. B. Evans Mrs. Patricia Krieger Mr. Michael Wittz Ms. Laura Byers Mrs. John W. Evans Mr. Robert A. Krieger Dr. Thomas Witomski Mr. W. C. Carson Ms. Kathy Evers Mrs. Donald Krueger Mrs. Ethel D. Woodward Mrs. Eugenia H. Cate Mrs. Anna Ewers Ms. Suzanne Kuser Mrs. Joe H. Woody Mr. W. Richard Cathcart Dr. J. L. Farmers Ms. Dorothy Ladue Mrs. Charlotte S. Wyman Ms. Virginia Chalmers Mrs. S. G. Fischer Mr. Glenn Lamoreau Mr. & Mrs. Parker D. Wyman Mr. Harry F. Chapell Mrs. Thomas Fisher Dr. David L. Lan Mrs. Mark W. Zemansky Ms. Carol C. Chaplin Mr. Clarence Fogelstrom Mr. Dennis Lane Chattahoochee Home & Mrs. Karin Fontneau Mr. Charles B. Lauren Other Gifts Garden, Inc. Mrs. W. W. Forehand Mr. & Mrs. Mark Lee Gifts under $99 Ms. Bess Christensen Ms. Sheryl Forte Miss Jeane E. Leeds Mr. Vaclav J. Cihak Mr. W. T. Fountain Mrs. C. D. Linton Mr. Thomas W. Adkins Mrs. E. Clemons Miss Linda Freeman Dr. Samuel C. Litzenberger Mrs. Richard Aeck Mr. & Mrs. R. H . Coleman Mr. P. Frisik Mrs. Robert London Ms. Anita Alic Mr. Victor W. Coleman Ms. Leslie Galvin Mrs. John B. Long Mrs. Ivan Allen Ms. Victoria Colgan Frank & Alice Gardner Mr. Clarence Loomis Mrs. Susan Allen Mrs. Don Collins Ms. Jody Gebhardt Miss Carol Loucks Mr. & Mrs. Philip Altekruse Mr. Edward T. Cook Ms. Sally Gilkey Mrs. Bruce Loughry Ms. Dorothy Amarino Mr. Alonzo J. Covel Ms. Florence Gill Mr. Gregory T. Lowen Mr. S. L. Andrus Mrs. Richard S. Cowan Miss Teresa Gloster Mrs. Sara Lynn Mr. & Mrs. George Armheirn Ms. Genola B. Cox Dr. Leo R. Goertz Mrs. Alexander B. Lyon Mrs. R. L. Armstrong Dr. Harriet Creighton Ms. Bethany Good Ms. Jane Krumbhaar Mrs. M. W. Ashcraft Mrs. Thomas Creswell Mr. Neil Grant MacLeish Ms. Marie S. Aull Dr. O. L. Crissey Dr. Kathryn Greenhoot Ms. Lorene L. Mann Dr. Ben Aycock Ms. Virginia R. Crocker Ms. Helen E. Grossman Mrs. R. W. Marlowe

16. American Horticulturist • September 1992 Ms. Harriet Marple Mrs. Lammot du Pont Copeland Ms. Elizabeth Marsh Mrs. Anna M. Day Ms. Marion A. Mathison Mr. Thomas J Delehanty Capt. W. G. Matton Jr. Mrs. Evelyn M. Dent Ms. Barbara E. Mayell Ms. Erna C. N. de Vegvar Mrs. Evan S. McCord Mrs. Lalla H. Dodge Mr. George Cole S. McCray Mrs. James Dudley Lady Anne Kerr McDonald Mr. & Mrs. Henry F. Dunbar Ms. Eileen McDonnell Mrs. E. Eisenhart Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. McKinney Mr. Bradford M. Endicott Mr. Malcolm J. McLancon Ms. Madlyn H. Evans Ms. J. L. Messmer Mr. Robert J. Falasca Ms. Randy Meyers Ms. Susan Feller Ms. Lynell H . Michonski Mrs. Norman H. Golding Mrs. B. J. Middleton Mr. Charles Goodwin Mrs. Richard W. Millar Ms. Martha Guse Ms. Charlene Mitchell Mrs. W. H. Haines Ms. Helen Molloy Ms. Susan D. Schaffner Mrs. J. C. Whetzel Mrs. E. Hendrickson Mrs. Ruth M. Moore Mr. Robert C. Schleiger Mr. & Mrs. C. V. White Mr. Jose ph Y. Jeanes Mr. James T. Morton Dr. Everett A. Schneider Mrs. Robert York White Mr. J. Thomas John Jr. Mr. & Mrs. James A. Mose Mrs. Joan M. Schoenholtz Mrs. Jo Whiteside Mrs. Bruce Jolly Ms. C. G. Moulton Ms. Jane Schube Mr. Bruce Wilamowski Mr. Carol D. Jones Mrs. Craig Wright Muckle Mr. Robert A. Schultz Mrs. Helen Williams Ms. Elizabeth L. Jones Mr. & Mrs. John H. Mullin III Ms. Ann M. Seeger Mr. & Mrs. John L. Williams Mr. & Mrs. Richard E. Jones Mr. Nels P. Nelson Mrs. P. T. Sessions Jr. Ms. Alyce Williamson Mrs. Agnes Juras Mr. Robert Nesbirt III Ms. Mary B. Sexton Mr. Lloyd Willis Mrs. Doris B. Katz Mrs. J. H. Neuhaus Ms. Helen Shaffer Mrs. William S. Willis Mrs. Elizabeth A. Keat Dr. & Mrs. John Newdorp Mr. Nilofer Shaikh Mrs. Helen Wilson Mrs. Randolph A. Kidder Ms. Linda Nichols Dr. Barbara Shalucha Ms. Joan K. Wilson Mr. Peter Kosiba Mrs. John M. O'Connor Mrs. A. Pope Shuford Ms. Cornelia Wise Mrs. Gustav Koven Mr. Marthew Odom Dr. Alfred J. Shulman Mr. Harvey J. Woltman Mrs. Donald Krueger Mr. Edward D. O'Donnell Mrs. Jenifer Sims Dr. Clayton E. Wood Dr. Samuel C. Litzenberger Mrs. H. W. Olson Dr. Harry Sinclaire Mrs. Robert C. Wood Mr. & Mrs. T. Rudd Loder Mr. M. V. O'Neill Mr. Charles Sisung Dr. J. David Wright Ms. Joan E. Lofton Mr. & Mrs. Don Osborne Mrs. Pat Smart Ms. Mary R. Zeller Ms. J. Dawn Smith Lowry Ms. Cathy L. Palm Ms. Barbara K. Smith Mrs. Elizabeth Marshall Ms. Mary Bunikis Parks Mr. Richard E. Smith Mrs. Frances B. McAllister Mr. Montgomery Parks Ms. Katherine H. Smythe Mr. George Cole S. McCray Mr. Michael Pawlowski Mr. Harold C. Snyder Matching Gifts Mrs. Marjorie A. P. McNally Mrs. Edward G. Pearson Miss Rachel Snyder Mrs. Carol C. Morrison Mrs. Jean Pease Ms. Michele Soptel These corporations matched, Mrs. Alice Muller Mrs. Scort Peddie Mrs. A. H. Sparrow and in some cases, doubled or Night Blooming Garden Club Miss J. Pennypacker Ms. Mary O. Stauss tripled the gifts of their Mrs. Don Osborne Ms. Carole Pesa Mrs. Edwin R. Stauss employees. Mr. Richard Osborne Ms. Martha R. Peters Mr. John Stephens Mrs. Walter H. Page Mr. H. D. Peterson Ms. Emily Stevens Chemical Bank Ms. Beatrice A. Pask Ms. Karen J. Petrey Ms. F. Still Exxon Mrs. R. A. Parterson Mr. George D. Pfeiffer Ms. Ellen Stortz Federal Mogul Corporation Col. & Mrs. W. M. Pickard Mrs. E. Hood Phillips Mrs. Henry Streeter Johnson & Higgins Miss Priscilla Manning Porter Col. & Mrs. W. M. Pickard Ms. Frances Streert POG Industries Miss Barbara Ramming Ms. Polly Pierce Mr. Bart Stuart Readers Digest Foundation Mrs Suzanne Reed Mrs. Lyndell Pirtle Miss A. R. Surton Time Warner, Inc. Mrs. William C. Ridgway Jr. Plant-A-Plant Company Mr. Thomas Tankersley Mrs. Lake Robertson Jr. Portland Garden Club Mr. Ted Tawshunsky Miss Elizabeth Roosevelt Dr. William H. Preston Ms. Cynthia Tweed Taylor Ms. Arlene V. Root Suzanne & David Price Ms. Janelle Thompson Intern Mr. C. W. Schumacher Jr. Ms. Nell Prince Ms. Claude Threlkold Mrs. James A. Simpson Mr. Thomas Pugh Mr.M. Todd Program Dr. J. Walter Smyth Mr. Lyle E. Pursell Mrs. R. E. Tool Mrs. A. H. Sparrow Miss Stephanie Radzay Mrs. Z. A. Torok Mr. Kazuyuki Abe Mr. John Stephens Miss Barbara Ramming Mrs. Catharine Traub Mr. E. Dumont Ackerman Ms. Barbara Tandy Ms. Linda Raymond Mr. Winfield S. Tubbs Mrs. Susan Addison Mr. Ted Tawshunsky Mrs. Suzanne Reed Mr. Dabney Turley Miss Vernice Anderson Mr. Alfred H. Tipping Ms. Doris Reich Mr. Kenneth L. Urter Mr. Thomas W. Andrews Mr. Robert S. Waldo Mr. John H. Renth Mrs. W. Leicester Van Leer Mrs. Anna R. Bach Ms. Joyce Williams Ms. Nancy Repper Ms. Patricia M. Vazquez Ms. Kristen Barrash Mr. Silas Williams Mrs. Albert Reutlinger Mr. Ted C. Wahlen Mrs. R. C. Barton Ms. Sue A. Wolff Mr. Randolph E. Richardson Mr. Robert S. Waldo Mr. Peter W. Bickers Mrs. P. Ringenburg Dr. Allan E. Walker Mrs. George P. Bissell Jr. Mrs. J. G. Roberts Mr. & Mrs. Edward J. Ward Mrs. Elspeth G. Bobbs Mrs. Sandra Roberts Ms. Marjorie Ward Ms. Eugenie Bolger Mrs. Fred F. Rogers Mrs. L. B. Watson Mr. J. Judson Brooks Mrs. M. Romano Mrs. Rhoda E. Way Mrs. Marion Burdon Ms. Nancy Jacobs Roney Mrs. H. B. Weaver Mrs. Sonya L. Burgher Mr. D. Rosenberg Mr. Orval M. Weaver Ms. Brenda Jo Butka Ms. Sharon Palmer-Royston Mr. James B. Webb Miss Juanita S. Carpenter Ms. Marilyn M. Sale Mrs. Charles E. Wheeler Ms. Richard Cavanaugh

American Horticulturist· September 1992.17 Mrs. Eleanor MacCracken The Blount Dr. & Mrs. Malcolm MacGregor Mrs. Martha Maguire Challenge Ms. Genevieve Mallory Mrs. Mark Mayer Mary Katherine Blount, an Mrs. ]. G. McBratney AHS Board Member from Mr. & Mrs. Thomas McCasland Jr. Montgomery, Alabama, Mr. E. M. McClung pledged $25,000 to the Mr. & Mrs. Hugh P. McCormick Society if Board Members, Mr. & Mrs. John McDougall members, and friends of AHS Mrs. G. D. McGeary in turn raise an equal amount. Ms. Constance McKenney Mrs. Shirley Meneice Mr. George C. Ball Jr. Mrs. William Milius Mrs. Mary Katherine Blount Ms. Freda Miner Mr. David Cannell Mrs. ]. Raymond Moore Jr. Dr. John Alex Floyd Jr. Mrs. D. A. Morelli Mrs. Karin Fontneau Mr. Ira Austin Mr. Rudy Favretti Mrs. Phyllis Morelli Mrs. Lucy Harper Grier Mr. & Mrs. Keith Austin Dr. William Fechtman Ms. Barbara Morse Mary & Dick Ober Mr. & Mrs. John]. Avlon Mr. William Feldman Mr. & Mrs. Arthur E. Motch Ms. Lisa Parker Mrs. John K. Bagby Mr. Walter B. Ferguson Mr. Frank Myers Mr. Walter M. Pickard Mrs. Barbara Baker Mrs. Jack Finks Mrs. Jane Myers Pohick Garden Club Mrs. Mario G. Baldini Ms. Alison]. Flemer Mrs. & Mrs. T. Nathan Ms. Carol P. Poynor Mrs. Margaret A. Barnard Mr. R. L. Foree Jr. Mrs. Betty Niefhoff Mrs. Flavia Redelmeier Mrs. James Bartlett Jr. Mr. & Mrs. James E. Galton Mr. Andrew P. O'Meara Mrs. Josephine Shanks Mrs. William Beckett Mrs. Emily Gibbs Mrs. T. F. Oakes Mrs. Ethel Telban Mr. & Mrs. Richard Berger Mrs. Margaret Gilbert Mrs. Muriel Orans Mrs. Elizabeth S. Trickett Mr. Fred L. Bergert Mr. & Mrs. Richard Glaze Mrs. Mary Owen Mrs. Billie Trump Mr. & Mrs. Roger Berry Mr. Vernon Gosch Ms. Cindy Pendley Mrs. Nancy Turner Mr. & Mrs. Griscom BettIe Ms. Reba S. Green Mrs. John B. Perry II Mrs. Helen Fulcher Walutes Mrs. Marcia Bigos Ms. Eleanor O. Greninger Ms. Emmie K. Phillips Ms. Katherine Moss Warner Mrs. Helen Bilinski Mrs. Henry Gronendahl Mr. & Mrs. Donald Philpot Mr. Lloyd Willis Mr. & Mrs. A. W. Blackhall Ms. Eileen Hall Ms. Jean B. Pieretti Mr. & Mrs. Murray Bloom Ms. Margaret T. Harbin Mrs. Richard C. Plater Jr. Mrs. Kenneth Boldt Dr. & Mrs. Odell Hargrove Mrs. Morgan H. Plummer Mrs. Elizabeth Bottorf Dr. & Mrs W. O. Hargrove Mr. Kenneth P. Pohl In Memory of Mrs. Bruce M. Brown Mr. Robert C. Hamden Mrs. Anne Pound Mrs. R. W. Brown Mr. & Mrs. Jackson Harris Mr. Thomas]. Prisk Mrs. Benjamin P. Bole Jr. Mr. Charles B. Buchanan Mrs. William Hays Mrs. Ann Reilly Mrs. George P. Bissell Jr. Ms. Mignon Buehler Mrs. P. V. Heftier Mrs. Betty Rice Mrs. Harry]. van de Kamp Mrs. Frances Bull Mrs. Isabel D. Hill Mr. & Mrs. Theodore G. Mr. Everett Clarke Mrs. Louise Cain Mr. Bernard B. Hillmann Richardson Mrs. Virginia B. Campbell Mr. & Mrs. Charles S. Caldwell Jr. Mrs. Louise Hizer Mrs. Jeanette Richoux Dr. David Green Dr. & Mrs. J. P. Cameron Mrs. Julia DeCamp Hobart Mr. & Mrs. Hugh Y. Rienhoff Dr. & Mrs. Robert Guthrie Mr. & Mrs. William R. Camp Jr. Mrs. H. W. Hoefer Mrs. A. Rindler Mrs. Virginia A. Hayes Mrs. Achsah Carrier Mr. & Mrs. Mark Holeman Mrs. Lake Robertson Jr. Mrs. Barbara Lewis Howard Mrs. Adelheid E. Casasco Mr. Laurence G. Hommel Ms. Katherine W. Robinson Mr. & Mrs. Theodore M. Mills Mrs. C. A. Case Jr. Mrs. G. A. Horkan Jr. Mrs. Maxine Rogers Mr. Albert C. Rekate Ms. Kathryn]. Cearley Mrs. Joseph G. Horne Miss Mary A. Root Mr. William Hechler Ms. Helen H. Chew Mrs. Virginia Horne Mr. Richard L. Rosenthal Berks County Horticulture Club Mrs. Elizabeth M. Clark Ms. Eleanor H. Hummel Mr. & Mrs. Carl Ruff Mrs. Babe Mann Ms. Mary Ann Cole Mrs. Alvin R. Ingram Mrs. Barrow Ryding Mrs. Virginia B. Campbell Mr. & Mrs. T. K. Connor Ms. Jayme Irvin Mrs. Cornelia Sanders Mrs. Mary Stuart Maury Mrs. Robert L. Cooley Ms. Evelyn F. Jarrett Mrs. L. E. Sauer Mrs. George P. Bissell Jr. Mrs. Alice Cornish Mr. & Mrs. Raymond Jaudes Mrs. Juliet M. Scarbrough Mrs. Erastus Corning II Mrs. Caroline Cornish Ms. Mabel S. Jensen Ms. Viorica Schauf Georgetown Garden Club Mrs. Cecily Cornish Mrs. William C. Jones Ms. Mary Schillig MI: & Mrs. Stephen R. Malphrus Mrs. Nancy F. Correia Mrs. David Kaufmann Jr. Mrs. James Schmidt Mrs. Walter G. Peter Jr. Mrs. Richard F. Corroon Ms. Helen P. Keith Mr. Adolf Schoepe Mrs. Frances L. Jones Poetker Ms. Ann Cory Mr. & Mrs. Robert K. Keller Mrs. Harriett Shapiro Ms. Beatrice S. Proctor Mrs. Dorothea Cugini Mr. & Mrs. Robert Kerr Mr. Frank C. Shattuck Mrs. Anson P. Stokes Jr. Mrs. Jane Dancer Mr. Frederic Klein Mr. & Mrs. Harold Shuster Mrs. Louise Ripley Taylor Ms. Huguette Day Mrs. Josephine Klein Mrs. Barbara L. Simmons Mrs. Betty P. Peck Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Lamont Dees Mr. & Mrs. Edward Kolhauser Jr. Mrs. E. ]. Singleton Mr. Ronald L. Walutes Dr. & Mrs. Phillip G. Derickson Mr. & Mrs Max Konanz Mr. & Mrs. Frank C. Smith Jr. Ms. Patricia]. Boyles Mrs. Harold Deuel Ms. Pieta Lair Ms. Libby Smith Po hick Garden Club Mrs. Jeanne C. DeVries Ms. Nell K. Lane Ms. Pamela D. Smith Mrs. H. Lenox Dick Ms. Polly Laurenson Dr. & Mrs. Ralph Smith Mrs. William B. Duncan Mr. & Mrs. Fredrick Leswing Dr. William Weber Smith Mrs. William Eason Mr. F. Harlan Lewis Dr. & Mrs. E. H. Soule Tour Mr. Robert L. Eddy Ms. Marion Park Lewis Mrs. Sylvia G. Spear Mrs. John Durr Elmore Mr. & Mrs D. Robert Lindborg Mr. & Mrs. Richard Spence Participants Mrs. Ruth Engel Mrs. John B. Little Ms. Charlyne Springer Mrs. Robert B. English Mrs. Sally Littlefield Mr. Frank C. Springer Ms. Ines Acuna Ms. Helen Etkin Dr. & Mrs. Marvin Lougheed Mrs. Victor A. Stancliff Mrs. Theo P. Alexander Mr. & Mrs. Raymond L. Falls Jr. Ms. Norma Jean Loving Miss Jane Steffey Mr. Leroy L. Anderson Mr. & Mrs. W. ]. Farrington Mrs. Malcolm W. Lowenstein Mr. Jeff Stoddard

18 + American Horticulturist • September 1992 Mrs. Lamb Stranahan Society Benefactors Mrs. Bobbie Strausbaugh $250 Mrs. Evelyn Stuenkel Mr. S. E. Swenson Mrs. James Bartlett Jr. Mr. & Mrs. George Tate Mr. R. A. Bartlett Jr. Mrs. Emily F. Thomason Mrs. John A. Becker Mrs. Elisabeth Thompson Mrs. Sidney F. Brody Mrs. Lucy J. Thompson Mr. & Mrs. Donald Cavanaugh Mr. & Mrs. D. H. Thomson Jr. Mr. J. F. Channel Miss Emmylou Thomson Mr. Victor J. Collica Mr. & Mrs. Gerald B. Townsend Mr. Arthur F. Cox ford Mr. J. A. Tracy Mr. Keith G. Davis Ms. Mary Jean Tully Mrs. Anna M. Day Mrs. Jane S. Tuverson Mr. D. W. Delpaine Mrs. George M. VanMeter Mrs Martin B. Foil Jr. Mrs. Stephen Vernon Mrs. George B. Gardner Mrs. William E. Ward Miss Ann E. Gresham Ms. Jean L. Whalen Pam Grenade Mr. & Mrs. James F. Delano Mrs. William M . Hackman Mrs. Stephen P. White Joyce Howard Mrs. James Dudley Mr. C. J. Harrington Mrs. Elizabeth Wick Sallie S. Hutcheson Mrs. Beverley White Dunn Mrs. Sturtevant Hobbs Mrs. Sid Willingham Patricia Jones Dr. John Alex Floyd Mr. Claude Hope Ms. Clara Newton Wisbach Peaches Joyal Mr. & Mrs. William H. Greer Jr. Mr. Michael Horne Mrs. G. V. V. Wolf Pat Kranz Mr. Gerald Halpin Mr. & Mrs. Paul Icenogle Mr. & Mrs. Truman M. Jonathan LaPointe Mrs. Samuel M. V. Hamilton Mr. Earl Izumi Woodward Jr. Richard LaPointe Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Harris Jr. Jesse Philips Foundation Dr. & Mrs. Charles Wright Del Marbrook Mrs. Julia DeCamp Hobart Mrs. Jennifer V. Johnson Mrs. Ann R. Yager Louise Ott Mr. Claude Hope Mrs. Sally Johnson Mr. Meredith E. Yeago Kathryn Papp Mr. Philip Huey Mrs. James H . Knowles Mr. & Mrs. Thomas P. Youell E. Neil Pelletier Mrs. Jane Kammerer Mrs. Gustav Koven Annette Pigott Mrs. William C. Knox Mrs. Greta B. Layton Ed Raduazo Mrs. Robert E. Kulp Mrs. Robert L. Maher Mary Reynolds Mr. David M. Lilly Mr. & Mrs. Terence McAuliffe Garden Club Joan Rhodes Mrs. A. Lester Marks Mr. Max Munoz Linda St. John Mrs. Frances B. McAllister Mr. Timothy Neese Support Dee Stowell Mrs. Paul Mell on Mr. Walter D. Pugh Maureen Sullivan Mrs. Pendleton Miller Ms. Grace Robinowitz Alexandria Council of Garden Margaret Tessier Mrs. Samuel H. Moerman Mr. Adolf Schoepe Clubs Pearl Thompson Mrs. Carol Morrison Mr. Donald A. Schuder Chapel Square Garden Club Suzy Vincent Mrs. Diana S. Norris Mrs. Frank Schultz Collingwood Garden Club David Wagner Dr. Julia W. Rappaport Ms. B. J. Siepierski Garden Club of Alexandria Jo Cisarik Walker Mrs. Flavia Redelmeier Mr. & Mrs. Dean Smith Garden Club of Chevy Chase Mr. Harry A. Rissetto Mr. William Smith Hunting Creek Garden Club And, a very special thanks to Mrs. David Rockefeller Mrs. Stanley Stone Riverwood Garden Club the numerous AHS volunteers Mr. & Mrs. Richard Schissler Mrs. S. J. Thomas Jr. Yacht Haven Garden Club who helped during the Mr. Otto B. Schoepfle Mrs. Benjamin W. Thoron Alexandria Decorator Mrs. Josephine Shanks Mrs. James H . Walker Showhouse. Mrs. Peter Spalding Mrs. Burke Williamson Mr. & Mrs. William M. Spencer III Ms. Barbara Willson Plant Miss Jane Steffey Mrs. Charlotte S. Wyman Mrs. Donald B. Straus Mr. Philip D. Yaney Associations Membership Mrs. Harry Van de Kamp Miss E. D. Zielesch Mr. & Mrs. r. c. Van Meter Perennial Plant Association Support Mrs. Laura Van Meter Society Contributors Mrs. Helen Fulcher Walutes $100 July 1,1991 to June 30, 1992 Mrs. Marillyn B. Wilson Mr. Milford Adams AHS President's Council Society Patrons Mrs. Susan Addison $1,200 $500 Mrs. Carolyn E. Agger Volunteers Ms. Anita Alic Mrs. Charles W. Allen Mr. Robert Ballard Mrs. Ivan Allen Jr. Janet C. Acord Mr. Richard C. Angino Mr. R. S. Bringhurst Ms. Susan G. Allen Alice & Bob Bagwill Mr. Rene Anselmo Mrs. Carlo W. Caletti Mr. John F. Amiss Kathy Bedford Mrs. Suzanne Ba les Mr. D. W. Delpaine Ms. Marguerite Anderson Mary Benington Mr. George Ball Mrs. W. Averell Harriman Mr. Raymond E. Anderson Li llian Bistline Mr. G. Carl Ball Mrs. H. F. Manice Ms. Bentley R. Andrews Flo Broussard Mrs. Vivian Ellidge Ball Mr. Paul Mayen Mr. Thomas W. Andrews Anna M. Carroll Mrs. Alfred Bissell Nautilus Inn I D. De Nure Ms. Jane Andrus Tula Connell Dr. Sherran Blair Mr. J. A. Radway Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Antonio Ano Judy Culley Mrs. Mary Katherine Blount Dr. & Mrs. Arthur Seski Arborcrest Gardens Delores Diekemper Mrs. Sarah S. Boasberg Mrs. Deen Day Smith Mrs. Mary Joy R. Archer Priscilla Ditchfield Mrs. Elspeth G. Bobbs Mr. Burton S. Sperber Mrs. Carl Arnold Carole Dunaway Mr. & Mrs. Walter Bull Stern's Miracle-Gro Mr. Rolla J. Wilhite AsIa Eugene Ellison Ms. Susan M. Cargill Mrs. George Strawbridge Mrs. Robert H. Asplundh Sally Foley Mr. & Mrs. Glen Charles Mrs. Edward C. Sweeney Mr. Clinton E. Atkinson Jackie Foster Mrs. Lammot du Pont Copeland Mrs. J. Fife Symington Mr. Fred Bachand Cathy Gau Mrs. Erastus Coming II Mrs. Benjamin W. Thoron Mr. A. E. Baggett Jr. Charles Gobin Mrs. Charles Cudlip Mr. Michael Wirtz Mr. Mark R. Baker

American Horticulturist· September 1992 + 19 Mrs. Nicholas J. Baker Ms. Joan Kuhns Mr. Joe D. Balsley Mr. William Kulak Mrs. Hancock Banning III Mr. Anthony Kushigian Mrs. Robert]. Banning Ms. Audrey Lake Ms. T. A. Baramki Land Stewards of North America Mr. Stephen H . Barlow Miss Jean Landeen Mrs. Richard N . Barnes Mrs. Robert E. Latham Mrs. Stanley C. Baron Mr. Eugene D. Lattimer Mr. Glenn E. Battsch Mr. Henri]. Leclerc Bath Garden Club Prof. Peter Lejins Dr. Joseph R. Beck Ms. Debra]. Lemon Ms. SharenBenenson Mr. Randall Lewis Mrs. Dorothy P. Benjamin Ms. L. Lilienfield Mr. Pierre Bennerup Dr. Robert]. Linn Mr. W. Burr Bennett Jr. Miss Mary Ann Lippitt Ms. Theodora B. Berg Mr. Robert H. Locke Dr. J. Bergstrom Mrs. Albert Lockett Mr. James Biddle Mr. James K. Downs Mrs. Richard W. Hamming Ms. Gay Patterson Lord Blue Sky Designs, Inc. Mrs. L. L. Doyle Mr. H. W. Happel Mr. Nick Lotito Mrs. Peter Borie Mr. John Due Mr. Eric Harrah Mr. Arthur Lupien Mr. & Mrs. Alex Boschok Mrs. Robert W. Duernling Mr. Alfred D. Hauersperger Mrs. John E. Lutz II Mrs. N. R. Bowditch Mrs. H. F. Dunbar Ms. Evelyn Havir Mrs. B. H . MacKey Mr. Squire N. Bozorth Mr. Prescott N. Dunbar Ms. Gwen DeBoer Hawtof Ms. Ellen B. MacNeille Mr. & Mrs. William K. Brehm Mr. Robert Duncan Mrs. Alfred B. Hayes Mr. Carmino Maddelina Ms. Judith Brodkin Ms. Priscilla Dunhill Mrs. P. V. Heftier Ms. Marilyn Magid Mrs. ]' E. Bromley Dr. Lawrence H. Dunlap Ms. Elizabeth W. Heimbach Ms. K. L. Magraw Mr. William L. Brosious Mrs. H. B. duPont Mrs. F. Hemenway Mr. Thomas Maran Mr. Dean A. Burkhardt Mrs. James Dyke Mr. R. F. Hemphill Jr. Miss R. Marchetti Mrs. W. M. Burns Mr. T. ]. Eck Mr. Gerald L. Hempt Ms. P. Marco Ms. Terry Cabana Mrs. Junius Eddy Mrs. E. Hendrickson Dr. Bruce R. Marshall Mrs. Marion H. Caldwell Mr. David R. Edwards Mr. Donald Henley Ms. Margaret M. Martin Mr. Alban]. Cambronero Ms. Niki Edwards Mrs. Joseph H. Hennage Mrs. Walter Marting Mr. Brian A. Carlin Dr. Renald C. Eichler Dr. John Herrington Dr. K. M. Mathiesen Mrs. Virginia Carlson Mrs. Frank A. Elliott Mrs. Marie P. Hertzberg Mr. John R. Mayor Mr. Edwin D. Carpenter Mrs. Martha H. Ellis Mrs. Horace G. Hill Jr. Mrs. ]. G. McBratney Mrs. Harvie A. Carter Emory University Mrs. Henning Hilliard Mrs. Blossom P. McBrier Mrs. Adelheid E. Casasco Mr. Bradford M. Endicott Mrs. Albert F. Hockstader Col. Stephen C. McCormick Dr. Henry Marc Cathey Mr. Richard D. Erb Mr. Charles Hoeflich Mrs. Eleanor McCown Mrs. Arnold B. Chace Mr. John Esser Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Hofheimer Mr. Donald R. McDaniel Mr. Webb Chamberlain Mrs. W. Everdell III Mr. & Mrs. Mark Holeman Mrs. M. ]. McDonough Mrs. Allen L. Chickering Mr. Charles H. Fay Ms. Tracy Holmes Mrs. George McGhee Mrs. Thomas Choate Ms. Connie Ferguson Dr. James B. Horne Mrs. Nora M. McGowan Mr. Henry Christensen III Mr. Alfred L. Fiore Mrs. A. Houghton Mrs. Alexander McIlvaine Mr. & Mrs. M. Roger Clapp Ms. Joyce I. Fisher Mrs. R. Boatner Howell Mr. E. L. McKinley Mrs. ]. R. Clark Mrs. Thomas Fisher Jr. Mr. John C. Howland Jr. Mrs. Henry McNeil Ms. Sada L. Clarke Mr. Terence J. Flanagan Mr. & Mrs. D. L. Huber Mr. Michael Mead Ms. Eunice deW. Coe Mr. William Flemer III Hunting Creek Garden Club Mrs. Isabel R. Means Mrs. Henry E. Coe Mrs. R. Follansbee Mr. Jerald E. Huntsinger Mr. Richard N. Melbourn Ms. Jacqueline A. Cohn Mr. Kirby W. Fong Mrs. John Hutchins Mrs. Shirley Meneice Ms. Brenda K. Colasanti Mrs. Karin Fontneau Mrs. Charles H. Hyde Mrs. F. L. Meserve Mr. William C. Connelly Mrs. G. W. Foote II Mrs. Louis B. Jacobson Ms. ]. L. Messmer Mr. Alan D. Cook Ms. Tonia Fortner Ms. Karen A. B. Jagoda Mrs. Edmund V. Mezitt Mr. James D. Corbett Mrs. Robert Frackelton Mr. Peder Jakobson Mr. Joseph Michalek Mr. C. Sterling Cornelius Ms. Sue Freedman Mr. Richard Janes Mr. W. Robert Mill Mr. Pat Costa Mr. P. H. Frelinghuysen Mr. Morse Johnson Mrs. Harmon B. Miller Mr. George W. Cox Mr. Stephen R. Frobouck Mr. Philip Johnson Mr. & Mrs. John F. Miller Ms. Margery Hale Crane Ms. T. Froeschle Mr. Alan Jones Mrs. Orlando W. Miller Ms. Mary Crockett Mr. Richard B. Gannett Mrs. Graham M. Jones Ms. Juanita Millican Mrs. Margaret C. Crooks Mr. Charles B. Gardiner Mr. & Mrs. Richard E. Jones Mr. John C. Mitchell Ms. Carol Ann Crotty Ms. Elizabeth A. Gay Mr. C. W. Josey Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Egon Molbak Mr. James Crowe Mr. Jack M. George Ms. Jamie Kamph Mr. Robert Monk Crystal Garden Ms. Nadine F. George Ms. Alice Karpik Mr. John H. Moore Mrs. Robert Culver George W. Park Seed Mrs. B. F. Kauffman Dr. Richard D. Moore Ms. Grace Cundy Company, Inc. Ms. Joy Keeling Ms. Tracy D. Moore Mrs. Y. D'Angelo Mrs. Robert E. Gibson Mrs. John L. Kemmerer Jr. Mrs. C. ]. Morales Ms. Genevieve Daugherty Mr. C. ]. Gillespie Mr. & Mrs. ]. H. Kern Mrs. John Morrison Mr. & Mrs. Stuatt C. Davidson Mrs. R. Girdler Mrs. Randolph A Kidder Mrs. Christopher L. Moseley Mr. J. H. Dean Mrs. Robert Hixon Glore Mr. Orland A. Kidwell Ms. Rebecca A. Muenchen Ms. C. Debretteville Mrs. Frederick L. Good Mr. W. G. Kirchner Mr. Lawrence Myers Mr. Jeffrey S. Deck Ms. Jeanne Goodwin Dr. Robert]. Knerr Ms. Margaret K. Nanos Ms. Rolanda H. Derderian Ms. Alison Green Mrs. Donald F. Kohler Mr. Jim Nau Mrs. Patricia B. Detor Ms. J. S. Green Mr. & Mrs. Richard Kombrink Miss E. Neal Mr. Tom Dodd Jr. Dr. David G. Greene Ms. Bernice Kornfield-Premisler Mr. Albett Neilson Ms. Mary K. Doeltz Mrs. R. W. Greenleaf Miss]. Krauss Mr. C. ]. Newbold Mr. & Mrs. C. L. Dollarhide Ms. Mary Ellen Guffey Ms. Chris Kreussling Mr. David Newcomer Ms. Joyce H . Doty Mr. Richard Hagemeyer Mrs. A. O. Krisch Mr. P. L. Newton Mrs. Percy L. Douglas Mr. Pentti Hallapera Mr. & Mrs. H. M. Kuhlman Ms. Carol D. Black Nixon

20. American Horticulturist· September 1992 Ms. Barbara C. Noll Below $15 Mrs. J. E. Norwood Mr. & Mrs. H. D. Nottingham Hon. John H. Chafee Ms. Patricia P. Olson Mr. J. A. Davies Dr. N. Orentreich Ms. Emilia Disaverio Mr. William J. Orndorff Mr. Joseph P. Ellmer Ms. Georgia B. Orr Miss Lynda Eyres Dr. Mary Lou Oster-Granite Mrs. Jane B. Foster Ms. Denise Otis Mrs. Stephen A. Free Mrs. F. L. Ottoboni Mrs. R. E. Hampson Mr. & Mrs. Harry B. Overesch Mr. Graham O. Harrison Mrs. Walter H. Page Ms. Verna M. Knudson Ms. Yvonne Palmer Mr. Lawrence Labriola Mr. L. G. Pardue Mrs. Glenn Lamoreau Mrs. Robett Parriot Mr. Andre Legare Ms. Beatrice A. Pask Ms. Ai leen MacKenzie Mr. & Mrs. George L. Patt Miss Joan D. Manning Mrs. Beverly Paul Mrs. Marie Shaw Mrs. William S. Weedon Mr. Ed Markham Mrs. Edward G. Pearson Mr. Carney Shenk Mrs. Eric Weinmann Mr. Donny McFall Ms. Pearl Pearson Ms. Mary H. Shepard Mrs. Nancy G. Wells Mrs. Everett Merrill Mr. Robert W. Pearson Ms. Martha A. Shepherd Mr. John L. Werner Col. H. W. Mueller Pennsylvania Horticultural Society Mr. & Mrs. H. V. Sherrill Mrs. J. C. Whetzel Ms. Edmond E. Neville Mr. S. G. Peterson Mr. Earl E. Shouse Mrs. Robert York White Mrs. Enid J. W. Nicol Ms. Hilary Philippson Ms. Cynthia Simley Mr. Richard E. Whitehall Ms. Marjorie R. Norcross Mrs. Wilma L. Pickard Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Simon Mr. Floyd J. Wilcox Mrs. Nicholas G. Penniman III Mr. Atthur H. Pilch Mrs. Dianne L. Sims Mr. William B. Wilkens Mrs. Vernon W. Piper Mrs. Sue R. Pittman Mrs. E. D. Sloan Jr. Dr. James S. Williams Ms. Martha Pope Dr. Merle O. Plagge Miss Kathleen Smith Ms. Joyce Williams Ms. Betty L. Powell Mrs. Lake Polan Jr. Mrs. Robert Snook Mrs. Norman B. Williamson Mr. Gerald R. Remms Dr. & Mrs. R. C. Polson Mr. Len W. Sorensen Mr. William A. Williamson Mrs. Sarah W. Rollins Miss Persis Pooley Mrs. P. M. Spreuer Mrs. James P. Willis Ms. Ann M. Seeger Ms. Ellen M. Poss Mr. James M. Steinmeyer Dr. Jean D. Wilson Ms. Harold Speck Mrs. R. S. Preston Jr. Ms. Betty H . Stevens Winterbotham Partnership Ms. Ellen Stortz Ms. Janet S. Price Mr. Eugene A. Stevens Mr. E. R. Witt Mrs. R. D. Way Mrs. Karl P. Price Ms. Anne L. Stewart Mrs. John Woodward Ms. M. W. Whitfield Ms. M. O. Pridgen Mrs. Alfred Stokely Mrs. Carl Wright Mr. R. 1. Primich Mrs. Anson P. Stokes Miss Marie V. Wright Mr John C. Pritzlaff Jr. Ms. Carolyn R. Stouffer Ms. Irene Yen Mr. Stephen J. Puttell Mrs. Donald B. Straus Mr. Harold R. Young In-Kind W. & E. Radtke Strybing Arboretum Society Mr. James W. Zampini Mrs. Sylvan Raphael Library Mrs. Mark W. Zemansky Support Ms. Estelle Rapoport Mrs. W. N. Sumerwell Mr. A. M. Zwicky Dr. & Mrs. Robert Raymond Mrs. A. E. Summerfield Jr. Mr. Richard Cardinale Mrs. Adrian P. Reed Ms. Carolyn Summers Additional Membership Mrs. Leslie Dick Mr. Nathaniel P. Reed Ms. Mary Survill Contribution- Mr. & Mrs. Lyman Fairbanks Mr. John Landon Reeve IV Mr. Bradley A. Sweet $15 to $100 Mrs. Stephanie McLellan Ms. Deborah Reich Mrs. Edward F. Swenson Jr. Mrs. Linda Miller Mr. Charles A. Reid Mr. John M. Teal Miss Barbara Anne Ames Ms. Malinda Peters Mr. & Mrs. Curtis Reynolds Jr. Mrs. Wyllys Terry Jr. Mr. Frank W. Anderson Ms. Virginia Simpson Mr. G. W. Richardson Mr. Edwin D. Thatcher Mr. Clinton E. Atkinson Mrs. Billie Trump Ms. Annemarie H. Riemer Mr. A. A. Thibodeau Mr. Frank E. Blood Mr. Andre Viette Mrs. Rowland Robinson Mr. Harry A. Thompson II Ms. Heather Chapman W. F. Dick Consultants Roger's Gardens / Lew Whitney Dr. Ralph A. Tillman Mr. Bradford M. Endicott Mrs. Richard Rolleri Mr. Alfred H. Tipping Mrs. K. N. Espenak Alexandria Decorator R. M. Ronningen Mrs. Claire Tow Ms. Laurice Formato Showhouse Mrs. Hila C. Rosen Mrs. Myrna Trapp Capt. Philip Gibber Kay Hobson Mr. Michael L. Rosenbaum Ms. Sharon Travis Mr. Pentti Hallapera Joan Vogel Mr. & Mrs. H. Rosenberg Mrs. Richard L. Turner Mrs. Edmund H. Henderson Mrs. Kenneth J. Ross Dr. E. L. Valentine Mr. Edward G. Hole Co-chairs of the Decorator Mr. F. Rossetter Mr. Howard A. Van Vleck Mr. Derek Jackson Showhouse and the many Mr. R. C. Rudolf Mrs. R. Byrne Vickers Mr. Thomas R. Lindsey supporters of the Campagna Dr. S. S. Sakaguchi Mr. & Mrs. F. Brook Voght Mr. R. K. McGregor Center in making this event Ms. Marian Sampson Ms. Karen Vohman Mrs. Joan H. Milligan such as success. Ms. Patience Ferris Sandrof Dr.& Mrs. Bert J. Vos Mrs. Libby Hodges Oliver Ms. Paulette Satur Mr. Guy Wadsworth Ms. Betty P. Peck River Farm Beautification Mrs. Henry L. Savage Ms. Julie Anne Wagner Dr. & Mrs. Robert Quinnell Clara Hayes Barrett Mr. V. Kenneth Schendel Ms. Edith M. Waldron Ms. Evaline H. Rhodehamel David Bell Ms. Anne P. Schmalz Walters Gardens Riverwood on the Potomac Brenda Brokaw Mrs. Earl Schmidt Mr. C. E. Ward Jr. Mrs. Florence Schaefer Beverley Broun Mr. Ray Schreiner Ms. Victoria M. Ward Ms. Kay C. Schroeder Jane Cafritz Mrs. Frank C. Schroeder Jr. Mrs. G. F. Warner B. J. Suse Marilyn Calderwood Ms. W. Seaton Sen. John Warner Ms. Anne Terborgh Jane Collins Ms. lone Seiken Mr. John W. Warrington Mrs. John Woodward Judy Curry Mrs. C. G. Sell Mrs. Ira Washburn Joseph Davis Shadow Nursery, Inc. Mrs. Douglas Watson Tom Ewing Mrs. Willi am Shank Ms. Sarah Weatherly Lila Fendrick Mr. Frank C. Shattuck Mr. James B. Webb Robert Foti

American Horticulturist· September 1992 + 21 Hector Gonzalez English Gardens Fred Harned Equinox Valley Nursery Matty Hays Far North Gardens Mike Holland Forget-Me-Not Garden Jack T. Irwin Forgotten Thyme Garden Marie Johnston Fort Hill Farms Nursery Marjorie Land Garden by Design Judy and John Larezo Gleckler Seedmen Joseph T. Morton Greenscape Designs John O'Donnel Greenworld Connie Pearson Dr. Joseph c. Halinar J. J. Petro Mr. Fred Hicks Marilyn Poling Hunters Creek Perennial Garden Donna Ralston Latham Iowa City Landscaping Frank Babb Randolph Iowa State Depattment of Rochelle & Jeff Roth Horticulture Marga ret Rubino J. Gleason Theater Edwin Ryder Andre Viette Farm & Nursery Environmental Applied Products Arthur A. Jones & Associates Pamel a Gaylin Ryder Automated Mailing Fairfax County Department of Kings Orchard John F. Saladino Mr. George C. Ball Jr. Solid Waste Laurel Creek Nurseries, Ltd. Camille Saum Mr. Bill Brown Flowerfield Enterprises Lilypons Water Gardens Bruce Schafer Campbell & Ferrara Garden Club of Alexandria Living Tree Center Marjorie Segal Mr. Mike Catta Gardener's Supply Company Ms. Janet Macunovich H. Wesley Simpson Jr. Mr. Andy Clinton Harmonious Technologies McClure & Zimmemrman Skip Sroka Mrs. Anna Marie Clogan Homelite DivisionfTextron, Inc. Metzlers Nursery Charles Thomas Country Bloomers Nursery Iron & Oak, Inc. (Brave Industries) Milaeger's Gardens Kibbe Turner Mr. Jim Delash Kemp Company Montgomery Landscape David Watkins Mr. Dave Edmondson Koos, Inc. Mouse Creek Nursery Dana Westing Mr. John Floyd Montgomery County Department Native Gardens Jean Woodman Mr. Mike Fuller of Environmental Protection Ohio State University Garden Center of America The Natursoil Company Owen Farms Designers and corporate Gardener's Supply Company Otto Ind ustries Panfield Nurseries sponsors who made the George W. Park Seed Company, PermaLoc Corporation Peter Paul's Nursery Decorator Showhouse Inc. The Philadelphia Worm Company Plainview Farms possible and contributed very Mr. Mike Gibson The Plow & Hearth Plants of the Wild generously to the beautifica­ Mr. Ken Gossett Rubbermaid Reynolds Gardens tion of the house and grounds Gossler Farms Nursery Shamrock Industries, Inc. Slocum Water Gardens at River Farm. Special thanks Heirloom Garden Seeds Shape Plastics Smith College Botanical Garden to Chip Whitton (special Ms. Sheri Henegar Smith & Hawken So PerennialslHerbs advisor) and William]. Innovative Projects Snapper Power Equipment State Botanical Garden of Georgia McNabney of Sonitrol of Mr. Craig Keith Southern Case, Inc. Tillinghast Seed Greater Washington (the new Klehm Nursery Swisher Mower & Machine Trees Company Landscaping security system). Mr. Roland Kuniholm Company, Inc. Vermont Wildflower Farm Lilypons Water Gardens Tornado Products, Inc. Mr. Andre Viette River Farm Rose Garden Logee's Greenhouses The Toro Company Vision Scapes Andre Viette Farm & Nursery Los Pilitas Nursery Troy-Bilt Wetzel Seed Arbor Wholesale Nursery Lunch Break Publications Virginia Beef Corporation Wild Ginger Woodlands Atlas Enterprises of America, Inc. McAdams Graphics Waste Master-North America, Inc. T. Wombly Bluemount Nurseries, Inc. Mr. Tim Michienzi Cherry Brae Mr. Jeff Minnich We have attempted to Chapel Valley Landscape Ms. Dianne Mooney accurately report and give Company Mr. Mats Persson Nursery proper credit for each gift. If Graham Landscape and Design Mr. Larry Power you find a mistake, please Mrs. Mary F. Heffernan Mr. Keith Proudfoot Cooperative accept our apology and call Kutt Bluemel, Inc. Ms. Joyce Reagan the Development Office so Lila Fendrick Landscape Suburban Printing Program that we may correct our Architecture M. Van Waveren records. Merrifield Garden Center W. Atlee Burpee & Company The following have kindly Mount Vernon Greenhouses Mr. Tom Washington agreed to distribute AHS Mr. Dean Norton Wayside Gardens membership brochures: Shemin Nurseries, Inc. White Flower Farm Springbrook Gardens, Inc. Ms. Robin Zahory 18 Church St., Inc. T. DeBaggio Herbs Mr. George Zaun Dr. Albert Aidman Benjamin Williams Mr. Jack Zonneveld B&D Lilies Dr. Sherran Blair Wine Tasting Event National Home Composting Mr. Kurt Bluemel m Oakencroft Wineries Park Bluemont Nursery Prince Michael Wineries AL-KO Kober Corporation Bluestone Perennials American Rapidan River Winery American Lawn Mower Company Boerner Botanical Garden Williamsburg Wineries CanDo Com poster Busse Gardens Horticultural Collier Metal Specialties, Inc. Carroll Gardens Membership Support Composting Systems Cincinnati Civic Garden Center Society 1-800-Flowers Covered Bridge Organic Farms Cooks Garden Ms. Michelle Addy Coop Cottage Garden Perennials 7931 East Boulevard Drive Mr. Clint Albin Dalen Products, Inc. Country Grown Perennials Alexandria, VA 22308-1300 American Association of Nurserymen Diversi-Plast Products Dabney Herbs (703)768-5700 AmeriFlora '92 Echo Incorporated Daylily Discounters (800) 777-7931

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American Horticul turist · September 1992 • 23 Gradually fish, vegeta­ Awards Continued from page 7 tion, and wildlife are returning. Tributaries drainage and soil quality, and making that were jammed with plants' space requirements an integral part ugly flotsam now flow of the design process; and appropriate freely, and the once plant selection, which involves finding a infamous miasmal odors plant that is the desired size, shape, and emanating from the river color and still rugged enough to tolerate no longer bowl one over. the rigors of city life. These results have been slow and hard-won. If Urban Beautification (Institution) anything, Rouge Rescue is testament to the Today it seems everyone wants to hop prolonged, laborious aboard the environmental bandwagon. commitment needed to Politicians always keep a few greening reclaim our natural slogans among their sound bites, and cor­ environment. porations have found the word "recyclable" Detroit television indispensable for enhancing thein public station WJBK,Channel 2, image. There are few organizations, how­ has been part of Rouge ever, that can point to a sustained effort on Rescue from its inception, behalf of an environmental goal that mas publicizing the project yielded appreciable results. through hews stories and Rouge Rescue, a river reclamation special programs, solicit­ project in metropolitan Detroit, is a ing sponsors and vol'tm­ heal'tening exception. Winding through teers, and providing advertising. In 1985 Interior's "Take Pride in America Award," 126 miles of southeastern Michigan, the WJBK gave the project its name and presented by Presidents Reagan and Bush. Rouge River had become one of the helped form Friends of the Rouge, a country's most polluted waterways. collective of concerned citiz~ns and Awards will be presented at the 47th­ Sludgy, brown, and fetid, the Rouge was businesses. With Friends of the Rouge, AHS Annual Meeting October 15-17 in choked withdebnis, sewage overflow, and they developed educational programs Alexandria, Virginia. Eight of the 1992 contaminants from Michigan's once-great associated with the clean-up and Award winners-William Flemer III, industrial conurbation. Since 1986 more established Project GREEN (Global Roger B. Swain, Jane C. Pepper, Elwin R. than 15,000 volunteers in 24 communities Rivers Environmental Education Orton Jr., August De Hertogh, Richard J. have participated in an annual clean-uf' of Network), an information network Hutton, Nina L. Bassuk, Nancy C. the Rouge River. The restoration is monitoring similar river reclamation Stevenson, and James R. Morley-will expected to take twenty yeans and cost projects worldwide. also be the featured speakers at the meet­ $2.2 billion, much of which will be used Promotion manager Katy Baetz ing. Participants will also tour several gar­ to upgrade the inadequate sewage system Matthews will accept AHS's Urban ' dens designed by Oehme, van Sweden & that is a major source of pollution. Last Beautification Award for WJBK. One of Associates. A complete program appeared year alone volunteers opened 107 logjams the catalysts and primar:y architects of in the July News Edition. If you'd like and removed 3,500 cubic yards of trash Rouge Rescue, she remains a key more information or a registration form from the river, including five shopping supporter. She twice represented WJBK at call or write AHS Annual Meeting, 7931 carts, two refrigerators, and a 1950 Ford White House ceremonies where the sta­ East Boulevard Drive, Alexandria, VA automobile. tion was awarded the Department of the 22308-1300, (800) 777-7931.

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