uarttdy of TO American Primrose VOLUME XXI WINTER 1963 NUMBER 1 Primula pulverulenta at Hannon Acres OFFICERS—AMERICAN PRIMROSE SOCIETY President—Mr. Herbert H. Dickson 13347 56th Ave. South, Seattle 88, Wn. Quarterly Vice President—Mrs. Rosetta M. Jones .6210 So 286th St., Kent, Wn. Rec. Sec'y.—Mrs. Mary E. Zack. 8825 N.W. Bailey, Portland 9, Ore. Corresponding Sec'y—Mrs. Alice Hills Baylor. Johnson, Vermont of the Treasurer—Mrs. Lawrence G. Tait 14015 84th Ave. N.E., Bothell, Wn. REGIONAL VICE-PRESIDENTS Mrs. L. N. Rindspach, Pres. Wn. St. Primrose Soc 19723 88th Ave. N.E., Bothell, Wn. American Primrose Society Mr. Floyd S. Keller, Pres. Tacoma Primrose Soc 8511 S. Ainsworth, Tacoma, Wn, Dr. Raymond F. Piper, Pres. Onandoga Primrose Society, VOLUME XXT WINTER 1963 NUMBER 1 1310 Comstock Avenue, Syracuse 5, N.Y. Mrs. F. J. Macey—Pres. Canadian Primula & Alpine Society, _ 4020 Marine Dr. West, Vancouver, B.C., Canada A Tribute To Dan Bamford 2 Mrs. Raymond Elmstrom—Pres. Oregon Primrose Society, 8715 S.E. 36th St., Milwaukie 22, Ore. Concerning Primulas. Chupirr 2 Candelabra Section Grace. Dowling 4 Mrs. Francis Rae, Pres. East Side Garden Club 9007 132 Ave. N.E., Kirkland, Wn. Mrs. Marion Hannah—Pres. Emeritus, Friday Harbor Primrose Club, Other Members of the Primulaceae Doretta Klaber 14 _ Friday Harbor, Wn. Mrs. Reuben Stohr, Pres. Lewis Co. Primrose Society, 1963 Spring Primrose Shows 17 1512 Grand Ave., Centralia, Wn. Mr. Robert Saxe... 166 Eleventh Ave., San FrancisC9 18, Calif. Mr. Robert Luscher Thedford P. O., Ontario, Canada Nominations for 1963 A. P. S. Officers 17 Mrs. Richard Wetzel 1001 Reading Blvd., Wyomising, Penna. Golden Girl. Firsl American Named Show Alpine Auricula 18 DIRECTORS A. P. S. Seed Exchange 1963 ..Elmer C. Baldwin 21 Mrs, Grace M. Conboy..So. Burnaby, B.C. Mrs. Florence Bellis Gresham, Ore. Mr. Dale Worthington Portland, Ore. Mr. Orval Agee Milwaukie, Ore. New British Membership Chairman. Gwendolynn M. Hawkes 27 Mrs. Orrin E. Hale Bothell, Wn. Mr. Howard Short Seattle, Wn. Mrs. Robert M. Ford, 2406 Boyer Ave. E., Seattle Wn., Editor of Quarterly The Spell of the Auricula John Shuman BR QUARTERLY My Visit To The Northwest, (conclusion) Alice Hills Baylor 29 Florence Bellis—Editor Emeritus Editor—Mrs. Robert M. Ford 2406 Boyer Ave. E., Seattle 2, Washington Letters To The Editor 32 Regional Editors- From Other Magazines 33 Mr. Leo Jelitto. (14a) Stuttgart-N, Hoferstrasse 2, Stuttgart, Germany Mr. Aymon Correvon "Floraire" Chene-Bourg, Geneva, Switzerland Onondaga Primrose Society Meetings in 1963 35 Miss Alida Livingston Remsen's Lane, Oyster Bay, Long Island, N.Y. Mrs. Doretta Klaber Rt. 1, Quakertown, Pennsylvania People and Elowers Inside Back Cover Mrs. Anita Alexander 11848 S.E. Rhone, Portland, Oregon Mr. Elmer C. Baldwin 400 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse 10, N.Y. Mrs. Grace M. Conboy. 5846 S.E. Marine Dr., So. Burnaby 1, B.C., Canada Mrs. Mary E. Zack. 8825 N.W. Bailey, Portland 9, Oregon Miss Loretta E. Dehler Rt. 1, Box 136, Mt. Angel, Oregon THE PICTURE ON THE COVER: /'. pidverulenta in a deep border at the estate Mr. Charles E. Gilman 16320 Burton Rd., Los Gatos, California of Mrs. Maude Harmon. Portland. Oregon. Photo by Orval A gee Mr. Ralph W. Balcom 345 W. 88th St., Seattle, Wn. Mr. Cyrus Happy III 4 Country Club Drive, Tacoma 99, Wn. Mrs. Rodney K. Piper 66 Boulter Rd., Weatherfield 9, Conn. Editor in Charge of Translations— The Quarterly of the American Primrose Society is owned solely by the Society, which is Mr. Robert Luscher. Thedford P.O., Ontario, Canada incorporated under the copyrighted name AMERICAN PRIMROSE. PRIMULA British Research Editor— AND AURICULA SOCIETY, Captain C. Hawkes... ....."Brown Roof," Stapeley, Nantwich, England Seed Exchange— Mr. Elmer C. Baldwin 400 Tecumseh Road, Syracuse 10, N.Y. Subscription price (including membership); $3.JO per year, $10.00 for three years paid in Slide Chairman— advance. Old Quarter lie.? available at Editor's Office—see Index with Winter I93"9 Mrs. Dorothy Dickson ...13347 56th Ave. South, Seattle 88, Washington issue. Treasurer, Mrs. L. G. Tait, HOI J 84th Ave. H E., Bothell, Wn. Membership Chairman— Mrs. Ruth E. Smith 12936 72nd Ave. N.E., Kirkland, Washington (Free cultural chart and Seed Exchange privileges with new memberships.) British Membership Chairman— Mrs. G. M, Hawkes "Brown Roof," Stapely, Nantwich, England The editor is Mrs. Robert M. Ford, 2406 Boyer Ave, E., Seattle 2, Washington All material for the Quarterly should be sent direct to the Editor's Office, It is published at the Grange Cooperative Printing Association, Seattle, Washington. 2406 Boyer Avenue, Seattle 2, Washington Published four times a year—Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall. Foreign (except Canadaj .subscription price [including membership]: 1 pound per year. Copyright 1948 by American Primrose Society. All dues are payable each November 15 and should be sent to the treasurer: MRS Entered as second-class matter at Seattle, Washington, under the Act of March 3, 1879 LAWRENCE G. TAIT, 1401$ 84th Ave. Ji-E., Bothell, Washington. AMERICAN PRIMROSE SOCIETY Page 1 A Last Tribute To Our Beloved ogy's aid, raised the wild Dog-rose from up the meeting. It is understood that its humble, birth to wear a. diadem,—be Mr.Bamford's uncle was imprisoned — Friend and Member Dan Bamford beauty's queen! What were. Roses all possible in a good cause for all they without his fostering care? wanted was Parliamentary Reform! It is with great sadness that this is pursuits, he was always at the service But what is Nature? Is she not to-day written. Our beloved Dan Bamford of everyone; in advice, suggestions and just what she was ten thousand years Dan's own life would have made a passed away on October 9. 1962. So recommendations. He was never selfish ago? and who can tell but all our efforts wonderful story and the last time he many friends of his have written of his with his knowledge and gave the benefit only help to do what Nature's self has visited the writer she begged him to passing that I feel I should quote from ofttimes done before without our aid? at least some of the letters to convey the of all his years of experience to the commit his knowledge to paper, but ill Therefore, vain man, think not those health during the last few years prevent- feelings of these friends. young and old without asking for or things are done at thy mere bidding; To new members not acquainted with expecting a reward. Friendship was the thou art but the secret agent of a will ed this. Mr. Bamford may I say simply that he only thing that mattered to him in life. mightier than thine. Those soft pursuits By a strange coincidence his great was one of the old-time floriculturists He was extremely fond of children. arc given to lead our thoughts from friend. Mr. William Barber, died within who did so much to further interest in animals and flowe,rs and how he loved worldly cares to seek a brighter and a a few weeks of dear old Dan. He arrived the Show Auricula in both England and to be in his greenhouse endeavoring to better home." at the last Northern Show looking as the. United States. He was the donor of improve the species. One feels that he genial and debonair as ever, with not the wonderful antique copper kettle, a was one of the last of the old Lancashire .From Gwendollyn M. Hawkes, Che- an Auricula, but a Gardenia, in his but- perpetual trophy given each year at our florists but I think he would be the first shire. England; tonhole — a flower he had grown him- National Show for the best seedling lo agree with the following quotation self. Show Auricula. He also gave us the old from an old florist's book dated 1849 The news of the death of Mr. Dan Bamford, at the age of seventy-nine, will Mr. Barber was eighty-nine and last Gooseberry Scales that he hoped we with which I conclude this letter with vear he told me he had been growing would display at each National Show. its sad news." be received with sorrow and regret by all who knew him, Auriculas for eighty-one years and made His letters to his friends in this country his first exhibit, which won him a prize, were most helpful and encouraging when "By some, it may be. considered a sort A native of Middleton, Lancashire, he at the age of eight. standards of perfection were being estab- of presumption for florists to attempt to was a consultant textile engineer with lished here for the Show Auricula. mend Nature. Well, he it so; we hope the firm of Mather and Platt. and for England has lost two e:reat Auricula growers in the passing of these two men. In a letter from Mr. George Mooney. that, like a fond mother, she. will only fifty years was a member of the Insti- laugh a!, the innocent amusements of her tute of Mechanical Engineers. Since his 80 Mainway, Alkrington. England, Mr. We are grateful, too, for the obituary Mooney states: children, and let us have our own way. retirement he has been "on call" for his firm. pent by Mr. Frank Jacques of Middleton. The botanist loves Nature, for herself This clipping was from the Middleton "I have to tell you with sadness that Members of the A.P.S. will remember alow: A rustic beauty to him is 'loveli- Guardian, duplicating much of the above Dan passed away peacefully in his sleep him as the donor of the Bamford Trophy on October 9.