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April 1987 the Boxwood Bulletin a QUARTERLY DEVOTED to MAN's OLDEST GARDEN ORNAMENTAL April 1987 The Boxwood Bulletin A QUARTERLY DEVOTED TO MAN'S OLDEST GARDEN ORNAMENTAL Photo: Courtesy Mr. Raymond Lea A "boxed-in" window in Gloucestershire, England. (See Page 73, bottom.) Boyce, Va. Vol. 26, No.4 Edited under the Direction of The Boxwood THE AMERICAN BOXWOOD SOCIETY Bulletin President ........ Mrs. Robert L. Frackelton April 1987 Vol. 26, No.4 1st Vice President ...... Mr. Lynn R. Batdorf 2nd Vice President ... Mrs. Malcolm Holekamp Editor - Scot Butler Secretary ............ Mrs. Phillip D. Larson Co-Editor - Joan Butler Executive Treasurer. Mrs. Katherine D. Ward INDEX Change in Dues . 73 Editor Urgently Needed .... ; ...... , ... '" ...... 73 DIRECTORS Note on Front Cover ........................... 73 Dr. George Rogers to Address Annual Term Term Meeting .................................... 74 Tips for Those Attending Annual Meeting Began Ends and Tour ................................... 75 International Registration List of Cultivated Prof. Albert S. Beecher .. 1985 1988 Buxus L .................................... 76 Prof. James A. Faiszt ... 1984 1987 The Waddesdon Bequest I: Medieval Dr. Walter S. Flory ..... 1986 1989 Masterpieces ..................... " ......... 82 Mr. William A. Gray .... 1984 1987 Boxwood: An Important Element of Maryland Gardens .................................... 87 Cdr. Phillip D. Larson ... 1985 1988 Boxwood Flourishes in Virginia Gardens . 91 Mr. Richard D. Mahone .. 1986 1989 Mordecai Garden Symposium . 94 Mr. William N. Mays .... 1984 1987 Open for Historic Garden Week in Virginia .......... 95 Mrs. James M. Sykes ... 1985 1988 How to Describe a Specific Boxwood ............... 96 Boxwood Society of the Midwest Offers Cuttings ..... 98 Registrar: Mr. Lynn R. Batdorf List of New ABS Members ...................... 98 1409 Elm Grove Circle ILLUSTRATIONS Silver Spring, MD 20904 "Boxed-in" window in Gloucestershire, England ................ _. .. Cover Dr. George Rogers ........................... '.' 74 St. Louis (map) ................................ 75 'Paternoster' rosary bead of boxwood .............. 83 Boxwood tabernacle ............................ 84 The Editor solicits and will welcome contributions of articles; news; Boxwood altarpiece ............................ 85 notes; photographs, suitable for reproduction, of boxwood specimens, gardens, and plantings; and other items of probable interest to Maryland House and Garden Pilgrimage: readers. It is requested that every item of such material carry the Boxwood-lined bowling green at Wye House, name and return address of the sender and be accompanied by an ad­ Talbot County .............. : .............. 86 dressed envelope carrying the proper postage for return. While every Boxwood maze at Hope House, Talbot County ..... 87 effort will be made for the protection of all materials submitted for publication, the Editor cannot assume responsibility for loss or injury. North Bend, Talbot County .................... 88 Boxwood planting at Godlington Manor, Kent County .... .. 89 Historic Garden Week in Virginia: Boxwood garden at Little Oatlands, The Boxwood Bulletin (ISSN 0006 8535) is published Loudoun County . 90 quarterly for $8.00 per year by The American Box­ View from terraced gardens at Morven, wood Society, Blandy Experimental Farm, Boyce, Albemarle County ....... - . 91 VA 22620. Nevin's home, Danville ........................ 92 Beaumont, Lexington ......................... 92 Second Class postage paid at Boyce, VA. Claiborne home, Richmond ..................... 93 POSTMASTER: Send address changes to The Shackelford home, Roanoke .................... 94 Boxwood Bulletin, P.O. Box 85, Boyce, VA 22620. Leeton Forest, Warrenton ..................... 94 Boxwood sprig (drawing) ........................ 96 Thomas Printing and Publishing, Ltd. Boxwood leaf forms (drawing) .................... 97 Boyce, VA 22620 Shapes of boxwood leaf tips (drawing) .............. 97 Change in Dues At their meeting on March 20, 1986 the Board of Directors voted to increase dues-effec­ tive 1 May 1987-by $5.00 for individual, family, contributing and institutional memberships. (Sustaining memberships remain at $50.00.) Rising costs of publishing The Boxwood Bulletin necessitated this dues increase to keep the Society in the black. The dues remittance envelope enclosed with this issue of The Bulletin reflects the increase. Please observe the new rates when remitting your dues for the membership year extending from May 1, 1987 to April 30, 1988. Dues should reach the Treasurer by May. 1, 1987. Even if you owe no dues by virtue of being a life or patron member (see classes of member­ ship on inside back cover) you may wish to use the remittance envelope to send a tax­ deductible contribution to one of the Society's funds, including the Boxwood Monograph Fund recently created to defray the cost of publishing the comprehensive work now in preparation by our Registrar, Mr. Lynn Batdorf. All members are asked to give generously to these important Society programs. Finally members are. urged to use the dues remittance envelopes to indicate their chief interest in boxwood, their willingness to contribute informal notes on boxwood and to provide names of friends interested in boxwood. It is only through membership participation in these endeavors that the ABS can grow and carry out its stated goals. Editor Urgently Needed This issue of The Boxwood Bulletin-our Frackelton, to assist our replacement in put­ eighteenth as editor-is also our last. We wish ting out the first two issues in 1987: Under try­ to take this opportunity to express our ap­ ing conditions we have fully edited these two preciation of the support we have received from issues ourselves because there was no replace­ many persons in many quarters during the last ment. Although the ABS Board will continue four and a half years. The names of our abettors publication of The Bulletin there is an urgent are too numerous to acknowledge here in need of an editor. Preferably the editor should writing, but without their help in many forms live within driving distance of Boyce, Virginia we would have been unable to fulfill our where our printer is located. But if this arrange­ editorial responsibility. ment is not possible it may be necessary to The experience of editor has been an move the editorial-printing operation to another enriching one, especially in terms of our con­ area. tacts with many interesting persons, learning We end this last editorial-one of the few we about the genus Buxus from the inside, and feel­ have written-with an appeal to members who ing that we were contributing in a tangible way are motivated to serve as editor of The Bulletin to the growth and influence of the ABS. It is to contact our President, Mrs. Robert L. with regret that we now find ourselves unable Frackelton, 1714 Greenway Drive, to continue in this role because of increased pro­ Fredericksburg, Virginia 22401, as soon as fessional demands on our time. possible so that work may start on the July Although we asked the ABS Board more than issue in time to ensure publication on schedule. one year ago to be replaced in the fall of 1986, we consented, at the request of President The Editor Front cover photo. A box bush which has had its center cut away surrounds a window set in a house wall at Lower Slaughter, Gloucestershire, England. We thank Elizabeth Braimbridge for spotting this interesting picture in Country Life, August 21, 1986 and obtaining permis­ sion from Mr. Raymond Lea to reproduce his photograph. 73 DR. GEORGE ROGERS TO ADDRESS THE 1987 ABS ANNUAL MEETING Mary A. Gamble Guest speaker at the 27th Annual Meeting of the American Boxwood Society to be held at the Missouri Botanical Garden (MBG) in St. Louis on May 9 will be Dr. George Rogers. Dr. Rogers is Horticultural Taxonomist at the MBG and Editor of The Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, one of the Garden's two scientific publications. He is also a contributor to the bimonthly Bulletin of the Missouri Botanical Garden, which maintains an impeccable stan­ dard of scientific and botanical accuracy but is written in layman's language. Three of his re­ cent Bulletin articles were "Surveying the Trees" (at the MBG), "Water Lilies" and "Camellias." The title of Dr. Rogers' talk at the ABS meeting is: "What's in a Name?-Inter­ preting Boxwood Classification for N on­ Botanists.' , Dr. Rogers oversees an interesting program Dr. George Rogers at MBG's Shaw Arboretum at Gray Summit, Dr. Rogers' scholastic honors include Missouri, some 30 miles southwest of the membership in Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Eta Garden in St. Louis. This program is aimed at Sigma. He is a member of the American Society bringing endangered plant species into cultiva­ of Plant Taxonomists, the International tion. He also focuses attention on Missouri oaks, Association of Wood Anatomists, the Missouri hickories and viburnum, all of which abound in Native Plant Society and the Water Lily Socie­ the Arboretum. ty. He is an "Edgar Anderson member" of the Dr. Rogers received his Ph.D. degree in Boxwood Society of the Midwest. He has botany from the University of Michigan where published numerous scientific papers and has he was a research and teaching assistant from taught adult education classes on "Winter 1974 to 1981. He then served as a research Botany" and "How Do Flowers Work?" In associate and postdoctoral fellow at the Arnold 1987 he plans to introduce a course on "Plant Arboretum of Harvard University from 1981 to Identification for Non-Botanists." 1985. While
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