The NATION AL HOR TICULTURAL MAGAZINE
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OCTOBER, 1935 The American Horticultural Society
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Garden Club of Omaha, Mrs. Gertrude Pettit, Pres., Town and Country Garden Club, 5023 Spaulding St., Omaha, N ebr. Mrs. Wm. Henry Davis, Treas., 2508 Auburn Ave., Mt. Auburn, Georgetown Garden Club, Cincinnati, Ohio. Miss Katherine A. Dougal, 3030 PSt., N. W., Washington, D. C. Town and Country Garden Club of Cleveland, Mrs. W. H. Wood, Glendale Garden Crafters, Anderson and Green Road, Mrs. Harry Gordon, Pres., S. Euclid, Cleveland, Ohio. Glendale, Ohio.
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[ i] The National Horticultural Magazine
Vol. 14 Copyright, 1935, by THE AMERICAN HOR.TICULTURAL SOCIETY No.4
OCTOBER, 1935
CONTENTS
October in the Garden. HELEN M. Fox ______291 West American Silenes. CARL PURDY ______294
Begonia Breeding-The Rex Mixture. ALFRED D. ROBINSON ______297 Plant Collecting in the Colorado Rockies. KATHLEEN N . MARRIAGE 306 Plant Collecting in the Canadian Rockies. ROBERT M. SENIOR ______312 New Zealand Alpines. C. R. W ORTH- ______317 A Book or Two______319
The Gardener's Pocketbook: A nd1' 0 st ep hiu 1n co e1'uleu11'l, ______321 Tig1'idia pavonia ______321 \,yintersweet and Jasmine ______323 Scilla au tu wl/nalis ______323 N arcissllS N otes ______323 N arcisslls, N axos ______325 A utllmn-Flowering Bulbs, Reminder ______. .______325 T1'icy"tis hi,'ta ______327 Broad -Lea vecl Evergreen T rees--______327 I l e% pur PU1' ea ______329 Eupato1'ium B,'une1'i. CLAIRE NORTON ______329 Me lale'bK a le'b£cadend1' O'rL ______331 B ego1'bia E vansiana ______331 M entzelia decapetala. MRS. H. P. MAGERS ______333 Correction Note. DR. EDGAR T. W HERRY ______339 C:,/tisus pme c 0 % ______335 Callica1 'pa Gimldiana ______337 Index ______341
Published quarterly by The American Horticultural Society. Publication office, 1918 Harford Ave., BaltlIl.'ore, Md. Editorial o·ffi ce, Room 821, Washington Loan a.nd Tru.st Building, Wa.shington, D. C. 1:!0ntrlbutIOns from all members are cordially invited and should be sent to the Editorial office. Adver tISlllg Manager, Mr. J. S_ E lms, Kensington, Md. A subscription to t he magazine is included in the an nual dues to all members ; to non-members th e price is seventy-five cents the copy, th ree dollars a ye"r. [iiJ October in the Garden
HELEN M. Fox
A PART of our European heritage A ll the dahlias have blackened stems seems to be an enthusiasm about and have been removed to be pre Spring. Perhaps it is due to the fact pared for their winter storage; most that we are brought up on poetry of the annuals are gone too, but a which glorifies the first primrose or few have been stimulated by the frost violet opening its blossoms w h i 1 e or the short day into a grand last snows of February are melting in the spurt of flowering. These are the meadows of Auvergne, the fields of California poppies, the lavender alys Southern Germany or perfuming the sums, now a deep purple, E1'igel'on cool air of Devonshire and Cornwall. 1'I1.uc1-onaius, calendula, and Chinese We think, "how charming Spring is. forget-me-nots. The annual chrys it is veritably the loveliest season of anthemums keep right on, and, al the year." But, where I live and pass though they are not very handsome, my days the facts are quite different. at this time of the year they are wel Spring is an exciting time, no doubt, come. The O el1othem taraxicifolia or when every tree, shrub and bulb is aca~tlis is sending up its white-turn bursting with unfulfilled promises and ing-to-pink flowers. there is as yet no sign of the disap The roses are in bloom and the pointments which invariably com e dwarf Polyanthas make vivid beds of from unsatisfactory fulfillment; but, color where they are planted. Behind at least here in New York, it is a them the species roses are carrying cold and rainy time of the year. orange or scarlet berries according to Autumn, on the contrary, IS a their habit. Almost the handsomest glorious time of warm days shot berried roses are the natives, and through with an invigorating chill, others with good looking berries are and the countryside is ablaze with multifol'a, 1'ub1'ifolia, se1-icea, and bold dabs of color painted on with xanthocal'pa. The hybrid teas are still the sure and courageous hand of the in full bloom with healthy vigorous most experienced of all antists. It is foliage and even a few of the month so gorgeous and so opulent one could ly roses have produced unexpected not endure it for long, and just as flowers, notably, Frau Karl DrU'schki, one is about exhausted from too much the buds of w h i c h are very red ecstasy, it all disappears, and the at this time of the year. Th e structural lines of the trees and shrubs roses keep on into December and re stand forth bare and stark against the ward a late August feeding at this pale blue of the winter sky. time of the year. This morning, on the twenty-sec A few perennials are left here and ond of October, I went into the gar there-the Chinese delphiniums, he den. The leaves of the oaks, the last leniums, Michaelmas daisies, tall trees to turn, are changing into a campanulas, such as C. bononiensis golden brown; the maples, ash, birch, and C. rapunculoides, and there are and apple trees have already lost some rosy tufts on some of the phloxes, of their leaves, for there have been while the buddleias still have a few two "killing frosts." sprays of lavender flowers, as have [291] 292 THE NATIONAL H ORTICULTURAL MAGAZI NE Oct. , 1935 the hairbelIs, violas and fragrant Vio are the aquilegias. Over the well head la odorata. The myrtle has a few blue the turquoise berry vine has its clus fl owers peeping out between its own ters of berries tinted violet, dark blue shiny green leaves and the scattered and turquoise. One can smell the gold of the fallen maple leaves. A fe w scent of the last honeysuckles and the perennials are at the very apex of their silver lace vine still in fl ower has a bloom right now, such as the Aco much attenuated blossom and is dain nites, A. wilsoni and A . fische1'i, and, ti er than earlier in the season. as these midnight-blue fl owers are H owever, the chief glory of the right behind clumps of fluttery pink garden just now does not consist in and white blossoms of Ane111,one japo the few remaining fl owers, but in the nica hybrids, they make a beautiful foliage of the trees and shrubs and in picture. There is a handsome blue their fruits. This is not an article on fl owered perennial salvia, the S. o,z~£ fruiting shrubs and trees, fo r there Tea var. g1'andiflo1'a, far handsomer have been so many, but merely a rec than S. fa1'inacea which is also a late ord of what one gardener saw in her bloomer. They both require staking. own garden. The chrysanthemums are of course in O n the hawthorn hedge the scarlet their glory, and this year everyone fruits are conspicuous ; further along was so delighted with the K orean hy the native American hawthorn, Cm brids whi ch unfo rtunately di d not do taegus crus-gall i, is all of a garnet well with me at all. red-both its leaves and its berries, In the rock garden where the herbs -and almost the same color as the are grown, the thymes are fl owering leaves of the dogwood, C orn us fl orida, again , and there are still the dainty which is beside it. The fl owering misty fl owers of the tunicas, and Alys crabs are in full fruit, from red to SU11tb argel1teu 11tb is fl owering again , as orange, according to their nature, and are a few dianthus and some of the the cotoneasters have long graceful ca tnips and hyssops. Daphne cne01'U11tb sprays of either red or black berries. keeps on until December and the grey Conspicuous ami dst all thi s color are artemisias, notably Silver K ing, abTO the viburnums, V. opulus, a brilliant tanum and stellariana have I o n g scarlet as to leaves, and with clusters branches of silvery grey leaves. The of pendant translucent cranberry-like lavender bushes look bushy and grey, fruits. The mountain ash has orange and Satolina cha11'l,aecypaTissus is wool berries and scarlet leaves, and the bar ly and grey too. The saffron crocus is be r r i e s are particularly handsome in fl ower ; its globe-shaped purple blos with their shiny leaves overcast with soms with their three-parted orange bronziness or scarlet and their col and scarlet pistils hanging dow n be ored berries. H ydrangea queTcifolia tween the segments are very odd. has large soft oak-shaped leaves, now and their scent is a pale puritan echo a bronzy shade, and another native of what it must be like in its native shrub, Itea vi1'gini,ca, has turned to home in Asia Minor. Later ThY111~£S orange and bronze' in color. White lanuginosus will turn quite purple and berries are here, too, on S YI1'bp horicar all of the herbs smell very strongly pus albus, C OT I1 US stolonifem, and C. after the first few frosts. stolonifeTo, jlav'i1'amea, the y ell o w The peoni es are handsome just now twigged dogwood. with their bronzy-tinted foliage as There is a long walk bordered with Oct., 1935 THE NATIONAL HORTICULTURAL MAGAZINE 293 weeping cut-leaved birches which to plantings are the golden brown oaks, day have pale gold leaves, and under the blue bronze of the ash leaves after these are planted azaleas, the leaves first being pale golden, some golden of which now shade fr0111 green maples and the scarlet swamp maples through scarlet and bright red to deep O ne maple is still quite green except maroon. Andromedas turn bronzy, that the tips of each leaf are yell ow but the laurels and rhododendrons and red. stay green, and these, with the yews, Over all this color, and binding it cedars, pines, hemlocks and spruces together harmonizing it into a whole, now give a sober note to the whole is a blue haze, and off in the distance scheme ; later they will seem far the shadows on the hills are so blue brighter and almost of an emerald they are alm ost violet. green against the December brown of Golden October days seem to one the lawn and the orange of the mead person at least, the most gorgeous ow grasses. The most vividly colored time in the garden. But, after all, it is of all shrubs are the high bush blue a matter of taste, or perhaps of tem berries, now a flaming fire red, and perament, and something one would EU.011Y11WS alatus, truly a "burning not care to dispute about, especially bush." It is red with a magenta tinge in describing a peaceful walk through over it and a li ght quality of color as the garden, now very still except for if painted on thinly, and amongst the rustling of the leaves underfoot, these vivid leaves come the orange the cheery chi rping of the Phoebe berries. birds, and off in the di stance, the Behind and above all these low sq uawk of a crow. Silene IngTami West American Silenes
CARL PURDY
THE genus Silene is a large one, and its flowers are not bad. It too, found both in Europe, in Asia and in fills a distinctive place in the rock North America. garden and it makes a fine drape over There are a number of very good a wall. garden plants outside of the Pacific The finest silene east of the Rockies Slope, some of which I do not know is the Fire Pink, S. V'i1'ginica which is but a few of which I can recommend. a very pretty low growing plant There is S. Schafta which while rath whose flowers are crimson or scarlet er a dull rose in color, fully atones and showy. It is one to two feet high for any defects by flowering in the and also an excellent rock plant. fall and being a very excellent rock Whether S. W he1'1'y-ii is a form of plant when few rock plants are at this or a species I do not know but their best. Most hardy and thrifty it is a fine thing much to be desired too. and not too often to be possessed. Then there is S. 1naTitima which S ilene pe1117Sylvanica is another very makes a flat cushion of a pleasing excellent Eastern species. light bluish green and has many It is along the Pacific Slope that white flowers. Its cushion is al the genus is best represented and ways fine either winter or summer here there are eighteen species. Of [294] Oct., 1935 THE NATIONAL HORTICULTURAL MAGAZINE 295 fourteen of these one can say, "pret From this description It IS plain to ty," "interesting," "neat," and be see that the top of the tap root from within bounds but really none of which radiate the tiny tendrils of these fourteen are of much garden growth must be set at least an inch value. That leaves us four, but that below the surface of the soil. My four are among the very finest of practise is to set the top of the tap plants. root from an inch to two inches deep Before going into their descriptions according to the size of the plant, I must give some general information spreading the tendrils laterally and bearing on them and many other upward so that the tips of the ten silenes. drils are just under the surface. I be They are oftener found in a quite lieve that all failures with these West pervious, well-drained and deep soil ern silenes may be attributed to the and the roots have peculiarities. The fact that they have been planted too main root is a perpendicular rather shallow. fleshy tap root, three-sixteenths of an Our \i\l estern silenes, and it is true inch thick in fair flowering plants al of many of our Western perennials, though as much as three-fourths inch ripen after the end of flowering period thick in heavy old ones and it goes and lie dormant until rain comes. down from a foot to as much as three If they are moved in late winter or feet with many feeding roots at the spring after the growth starts they are base. It is a little hard to credit the apt to sulk but the dormant roots depth to which these tap roots can grow quickly and finely. reach but I have noted them in slides I dig the ripe roots and store them in road banks as much as five feet in in pits in slightly moist soil and these length. stored roots handle very much like From the top of this tap root which bulbs until late spring, but must be is usually an inch to four inches below kept moist at all times. the surface, spread from a few to Silene laciniata of Southern Cali many slender tendril-like branches fornia makes a compact erect plant laterally through the soil, each of from two to five fe'et in height. The these terminated in a white bud from flowers are of fine form, beautifully which the season's growth and bLoom laciniated in petal and a brilliant scar will come. let. It is similar to but not as good as Often these spread as much as two califoY11.ica which has equally showy feet and one would be almost sure flowers and is much more compact. that there was a colony when in real S. califo1'1~ica is found from the ity all can be traced back to one northern border of California down center. two-thirds of the length of the state, Quite apparently it would be Im both in the Coast range and the Sierra possible to lift or to plant the full Nevadas. It is always a plant of length of one of these tap roots and open woods and of loose deep soils. the practise is to cut them off about Often one finds it in ledges of broken six inches long. This cut soon heals rocks. This species will respond to and many fibrous roots are formed to a little moisture and remain green make a plant that may be more read throughout the summer often flower ily transplanted and in its permanent ing a number of times. and is a par new home will gradually reach great ticularly brilliant plant in its late depths. spring bloom. 296 THE NATIONAL HORTICULTURAL MAGAZINE Oct., 1935
The underground sterns s pre a d Silene Ingra111/i in Southern Oregon quite widely with many flowering has only been known a very few years stems which may either be in a small but has won commendation wherever compact clump when in an exposed seen. situation or with stems over a foot Its general habit is that of S. H ook high and widely spreading in shade e1'i but the stems are taller, about four or in rocks. Its fine scarlet flowers are most showy and perhaps the inches, the petals less cut and the showiest woodland flower in Cali color is a uniform deep pink. In its fornia. A splendid and showy plant way is as lovely as S. H ooke1'i. and very drouth resistant once it is Either of these silenes should have well established. an open pocket in the rock garden S. H ookeri. I do not think that any where the roots may reach deeply. As one who sees S. H ool? eri in a fine mentioned before the top of tap root specimen will refuse to place it with should be set half an inch to two the first few desirable rock plants. inches below the surface according to The underground stems travel far be fore coming through the soil and the the size of root and the tendrils spread stem above ground is only two inches laterally and upward so that the tips high with from one to several flowers are just covered. As they ripen up but there are many such stems ap· after flowering the pocket should be pearing over a circle of from eight well marked to prevent injury dur inches to as much as two feet across. ing the dormant period. The exquisite flowers are one and a S. californica or S. laC'iniata may half to two inches across, of a delicate also be planted in rock banks wher soft pink with a contrasting white ever there is a good pervious under halo at center and the petals deeply lieing soil into which the roots can and finely laciniated. grow. B ego·nia Rex amd related species Afte1' Curtis Botanical Magazine Begonia Breeding-The Rex Mixture
ALFRED D . ROBINSON
I T has been suggested that I write vine; Alas ! This wizard has lost his an article on Begonia breeding, and magic when daylight doth appear. with the suggesti on was submitted one H onesty compels me to decline any on iris that was considered a model. claim to science in my plant experi The iris expert claimed to be inspired ments. I am fairly familiar with Men while lying in bed early in the morn del's manoeuvres with peas, and most ing listening to the birds singing for of the other theories with diagrams, their breakfast, and so right at the including those of the combs of chick beginning I have to digress, as I sleep ens, and later have been hopelessly in the morning till I am literally confused by learned dissertations turned out, but I do li e awake in the about Genes and Cosmogenes, but night when my coffee has been too though I love to hear them propound strong or too plentiful and then I am ed they have not touched what, to me, apt to fancy myself a plant breeding is the main problem, and that is wizard who can make Begonias bloom Why, when I cross pollinate, there like orchids, smell like carnati ons and should be only one of several hun climb fences ahead of a pumpkin dred resulting seeds in a pod affected [297] 298 THE NATIO~AL HORTICULTURAL MAGAZINE Oct., 1935 by the cross. From this ·confession it land of my dwelling, Point Loma, must be plain that there will be no California. And then I am asked if :J, regular formula for breedir'g Be little water on the leaves of the Rexes gonias; only some information about is harmful. what has been done along that line The success of experiments made and a few suggestions as to what in the past in mating different families might be attempted. of the Begonias are encouraging- to Because the Begonia family IS so future operators, in fact the same ex large and so various, including mem periments might be well worth re bers from creepers to trees, with peating. leaves as small as sections of maiden Always in our American culture we hair fern to others two feet in diame have had a Begonia called the Silver ter with blooms to match, it would leaf and also Argentea erecta but re seem advisable to confine this discus cently it has been identified as Abel sion to one family, and I have chosen Carriere, the products of a cross made the Rex, mainly because there are in France between Rex and the tu now more people in this country in berous Begonia Evansiana or Dis terested in it, and the raising of it colo·r (illustrated) , also native to from seed with the object of securing Asia. Evansiana was the male parent. new varieties, than in all the rest The illustration gives a good idea of combined. A bel Carriere. Others of this breed For fifty years I had supposed that ing still to be found are, Ed. Pynaert the Rex Begonias had one progenitor, and Edward B. Kennedy. Another the so-called ({Rex," which in my boy cross was made between Rex and hood had tens of thousands of fac Diadema, a native of Borneo, which similes in cloth and papier mache the illustration shows to be a strag· gathering dust and spiderwebs in store gling stemmed species very unlike a windows and later sharing with other Rex. From this cross came some of discards the high shelves in the back; the best things in this section. Le but an introduction to CLwtis' B otani soudsii (illustrated), and definitely cal M ag(['zine uncovered the six spe·· Rex, is perhaps the most vigorous of cies here illustrated by leaf drawings any and produces very wonderful and did much to explain the different specimen plants, moreover it can be types in leaves. There are varieties expected to do its part in any breed now in cultivation closely resembling ing experiment, ripening pollen and all of them, and the crosses herein maturing seed better than any straight afterwards discussed throw light on Rex. Other well known ones from other differences. this cross that retained the branching It might be noticed that all six of habi.t of Diadema are Adrien Schmidt these Rexes are native to the same (illustrated) and probably the beauti part of the world, the middle regions ful, but temperamental, Bertha Mc between the Bay of Bengal and the Gregor. A variety now called George Himalayas, and that this is a land of Schmitt is very similar to one of this rainfall almost incredible in volume to family known as Clementina, though the North American mind-four hun my memory of Clementina is that she dred inches a year, forty inches in showed more leg than George does. twenty-four hours or four times the A recent very successful cross has average yearly precipitation in the been made by Roy Berry of Torrance- Oct., 1935 THE NATIONAL HORTICULTURAL MAGAZINE 299
Begonia Evansiana 300 THE NATIONAL HORTICULTURAL MAGAZINE Oct., 1935
Beg011,ia, A bel Canie1'e R ex X Exans'iana Oct., 1935 THE NATIONAL HORTICULTURAL MAGAZINE 301
Begonia Lesoudsii Rex X Diadema
California, between Rex and Dregei, from South Africa with an orange which on the face of it would seem an bloom, and of course there are the impossible mating. Dregei (illustrated) others in this class, R1:cha1'dsoni with is a semi-tuberous from South Africa, very lacy fernlike foliage, TIVeltsoniesis a very bushy small leaved cheerful both pink and white and M cB ethi'i plant, chi efl y remarkable for its share here is a field full of good prospects. in the production of the so called win There is a notation in a magazine ter bloomers, Lorraine, Cincinnati, of fifty years ago of a cross made Melior, etc., the other parent being between the Rex and the tuberous. Socotrana from the island of Socotra in the Red Sea, an unbelievable lo That was at a time when the tuberous cation for a Begonia, with its very was far from the astonishing develop torrid climate. ment of the present day, but what has The Berry hybrids produce many been done can be done, and the pos small leaves with the Rex patterns sibilities are absolutely glittering. and though too new to have had the I have a hunch that an alliance be only real test, time, are very promis tween Rex and Scharffiana might pro ing (see illustration). duce something interesting. Scharf The fact that the R ex crossed with fiana should give height and the abil D1'egei suggests that a possible mat ity to hold the foliage throughout the ing might be made with Rex and year, and the Rex might gin the va S~£therland£) another semi - tuberous riety in the leaves. 302 THE NATIONAL HORTICULTURAL MAGAZINE Oct., 1935
B e1'1'y H ybr'id B eg01~ias D1'egei X Rex
This Scha1'fjia1'La used to be one of The Begonia has long been a fa the prime favorites for wall pockets, vorite subj ect for plant breeding ex but a continuous propagation by cut periments. Its blooms being either tings under the artificial conditions of male or female removes the necessity the heated greenhouse sapped its con for the deli cate operation of emascula stitution till it existed only as an tion ; the difference between the uninteresting invalid. One of these blooms is easily discernible in the il excited the pity of Mr. David Fair lustration of Evansiana. Further, nat child when he visited my lath house ural pollenization is inconsiderable ex and he remarked "Robinson, you cept in a few of the subfamilies such must raise these Begonias from seed, as the small bedding type and the it is the only way to restore their tuberous, and that, together with the vigor." Shortly after this visit I absence of honey in the bloom as an started to resuscitate S cha1'fjiana. Re attraction to insects, puts the muslin peated failure to mature seed from the or paper bag protector in the discard. use of its own pollen led me to use The female fl ower with its conspicu pollen from an alli ed variety, Viaude, ous three - winged seedpod is so and twelve seedlings resulted, one of markedly different to the male that extraordinary vigor, and from this a the merest tyro can di stinguish them new strain origi nated, that is proving even without inspecting stamens and one of the hardiest of all the begonia stigma, and that's a big help if one family, and we can quite dispense has not studied botany. And again we with the cultural note, "This Begonia can dispense with the forceps and reqUIres warmth and care to succeed shears and camels' hair brush for the wel1. " male flower when plucked is perfect- Oct., 1935 THE NATIONAL HORTICULTURAL MAGAZINE 303
Begonia, Ad1'ien SCh11~itt Rex X Diadema. 304 THE NATIONAL HORTICULTURAL MAGAZINE Oct., 1935
ly formed to contact the female. A keep in a dry place at a temperature li ght touch of the fi nger nail to the around 65 F . till the seed sprouts male fl ower will show when the pollen when it must be gradually brought is ripe. to the li ght, but never full sunlight. The one difficulty in pollinating the As soon as seedlings have rooted Rex Begonia is its indifference to rip firmly enough not to be disturbed by ening its pollen. Nothing I have tried it, use a fin e spray instead of soaking. will insure this ri pening, but the con A spray fo r applying insecticides is dition has been helped by exposure to good. direct sunlight, even to the extent of \ iV hen the leaves have dried after marring the beauty of the plant. watering, sprinkle a little fine dry soil Rexes make blooms quite freely espe over surface to cover roots of seed cially in the late summer but without lings. help in polleni zation ripen very little \ iVhen large enough to handle, prick seed ; even when the seedpod hangs out in similar soil and water as on till dry, and very few do, they before. frequently contain nothing but husks : \ iV hen crowded, pot or plant out. however a mi croscope will s h ow Various instruments are r e co m - whether the experiment should be car mended for pricking out; a small fin ried further, for good seeds will ap ger nail fi le or a gold nib will answer. pear as plump kernels very easily If seed is started early in the year di stinguished. it is helpful to take the chill off water It would be mean to end this with used. out a few directi ons as to sowing seed A fin al warning, a double barrelled and care of seedlings, so here are 8. one. F or some reason, unexplained few hints prefaced by the serious ad by anything I have read though possi monition that water must be soft and bly in the "gene" realm, which I soil free from alkali as the Begonia frankly admit is away above my asks fo r acid conditions. O ur govern playground, only a few, if any, of the ment experimenting with Rhododen hundreds of begonia seeds in a be clt"o n seedlings evolved a very simple gonia pod are affected by cross pol treatment fo r hard water that has lenization. It, therefore, seems advis proved a life saver fo r many of these able to raise all that can be grown to acid-loving plants. H ere it is-one a stage when intelligent selection can half ounce of super-saturated solu be made. I have a thousand R ex tion of alulTJ. to the gall on of water . seedlings from a very few crosses; This chases the salts to the bottom they are approaching two years old. and the top water is soft. They vary astoundingly in size and L eaf mold is the best soil for seed. shape of leaf and leaf markings and Sift this through a medium fi ne screen coloring. Some are barely above the using the coarser part on the bottom pot, others are a foot high with more of a shallow seed pan, place the fin e than six-inch leaves, and they are materi al on top of this, thoroughly changing in themselves and as to one soak with boiling water. When cool, an other all the time. firm and level, spread the seed, mixed N ow for the second barrel. Because with ten times its bulk of fin e dry "the simpler the form the more vig soil , evenly over the surface. Cover orous the habit" appears to be nat the pan with a sheet of glass and ural law, the prizes in plant breeding Oct., 1935 THE NATIONAL HORTICULTURAL MAGAZINE 305
B eg01via D1'egei are apt to be among the weaker seed throwaway those that grow ahead, lings. If you must curtail numbers, rather than the trailers. Plant Collecting in the Colorado Rockies
KATHLEEN N. MARRIAGE
IT's mid-May but a dry winter and has been grown successfully in rock late rains have delayed our foothill gardens at sea level on a diet of flowers till now and they're all arriv gravel and rockchips. ing at once. High time we go out to In and near tufts of grass are the see who's coming. This is a one-day delicate soft yellow flowers of Litho spur-of-the moment collecting sortie. spermu1n angustifol·i'/,£11~. Dotted here With callous inconsiderateness I call and there are groups of Pentstemon off sOme appointments, we line our angustifoli'/,£s without regard apparent tin tackle boxes with wet paper, load ly for any conditions except drainage them into the car (the new Aphid) and then drainage and then more with Botany books, camera, lunch and drainage. Here on this hillside of low what-not and start into our nearby diet it is perfect-graceful, erect, less hills, the foothills of Pike's Peak. than a foot high, the grey blue of its These grassy hills are sudden, steep foliage and stem helping to intensify and mesa-topped with rough gullies the already dazzling turquoise blue of between, telling the story of aridity its flowers. When we give this the broken by torrential rains. Along run-of-the-garden treatment it grows these steep washes and in little gentler into a bush plant with two-foot spikes depressions where seed could find still of good clear blue, excellent for a stopping place moist enough for its cut flowers but gross compared with liking are scrubby shrubs, Rh",£.\' t1,ilo the wild thing of characteristic slend bata (Skunk bush) , C e1'cocarpus Pa1' erness and dazzling color. Several of vifolius (Mountain Mahogany) and these Colorado pentstemons have de Que1'c'/,£s gambelli (Scrub Oak) with finite horticultural value if we can an occasional stray hmi per SCOptl only keep them from overeating larum (Silver Cedar) and Pinus pon "Little food and less drink" may be derosa (Yellow Pine). the prescription. Where grass is sparse are cacti: We're getting higher now-climb OpUl~ tia polyca11tha and O. 1'hoda.11.the, ing along the north slope where we Echinocereus vir-idijlom, M a1nillaria soon begin to see Anemone pulsatilla, vivipara, their buds all fattening for first short stemmed and palefaced in bloom. Cacti may request dry feet but the open-later near shrubs and up they do respond heartily to showers on the mesa the flowers are deep lav when they're getting ready to bloom. ender to purple, their furry exterior We've just crossed our Rampage doing its best to make up for the de Creek when at our feet are whole layed foliage. These seem to be adapt colonies of M ertensia lanceolata, Al able for they are plentiful on these liu11~ textile and L e'/,£(OC1,i11U1n mo11. open dry foothills at 5,000 and 6,000 tanu1n (Sandy Lily) , the last with feet and in moist aspen groves at c I ear smooth star-like waxy-white 9,000 and 10,000 feet elevation. They flowers trying to push their heads out transplant moderately well and are between and above their slender, glau easily grown from seed. cous foliage-all so in contrast to On the Mesa are many colonies of their neighbors of wiry prickles and Sand Lilies, Echi'noce1'eus virid·ijlonls, insidious glochids. This Sand Lily and Tow11sendia escapa (E a s t e r [306] Oct., 1935 THE NATIONAL HORTICULTURAL MAGAZINE 307
H. L. Standley o puntia polycantha
K. N. Man'iage Echinocereus vl;rid·ijlo1'Us 308 THE NATIONAL HORTICULTURAL MAGAZINE Oct., 1935
Daisy) a tiny low one with tufts of we have collected with a ball which narrow basal foliage. includes the surrounding conglomera Vve return by way of a deep east tion of vegetation grow and bloom in west rocky ravine in which grow the garden. If they do sponge they woodsia ferns. These and calochortus seem indifferent to the nature of the seem incongruous in our dry hills and spongee. it surprises one over again to find N ow we have reached the main val them here. This ravine opens into a ley of Rampage Creek. The soil is a gentler slope evidently ploughed in an heavy clay on gravel subsoil. A1'ge attempt to grow sorne crop and then WLOne platyceras (Prickly Poppy) is abandoned, for it is covered now with showing fat gherkin-y buds. The foli the loveliest carpet of Anog1'a alb1:cau age of this is one of the finest of the lis-a bit blowsy as an individual but glaucous greys for the garden, and making an airy fluttering field of the large white flowers with their jol white. ly stamens are grand-even if they Among pioneer vegetation on these are only annuals. This is a real addi sand and gravel slopes, dermded of tion to the white garden. grass by eroding agencies (ploughing Yucca glauca is everywhere and al and overgrazing) there are plants of ready the thick bud spikes are push definite horticultural value. The oeno ing up in preparation for a military theras delight in being the first on display next month of soldierly erect the ground, pentstemons running i:l. ness-and don't the individual flowers close second. These pentstemons knew suggest the helmet decoration of the their stuff when they selected this British 21st Lancers? background of peachy pink and vivid N ow we have circled back to the terra cotta to show off their glorious Aphid and a drive of about six or blues. The finely cut silver foliage of s eve n miles skirting the foothills Arte111,esia frigida is the next arrival, brings us to Broadmoor tucked be perhaps the loveliest of all the Colo tween ,the secluded country estates that rado sages, excellent in the garden if are rich in flowers during May and given a hair-cut when it attempts to June. Groves of Scrub Oak meander throw bloom stalks, for the flowers down into the fields, and everywhere are insignificant and stringy looking. in their shelter are tufts of Anem,01'le On a sunbaked slope of the rock gar p$~lsatilla. den this makes a soft all-summer car A few years ago one field here pet and for a neat shorn border in the caused me to experience the just hu little garden it is unbeatable but in mility of the upstart, for each day I clined to sulk when requested to grow drove through it till it brought up at in shade. the boundary wall of an estate inside The stiff scarlet heads of Castilleja which I was supervising the making integ1'a are bobbing up everywhere. of a Rock Garden-an ideal site with These seem to be capable of adapting natural outcrop of rock jut tin g themselves to a wide variety of soils. through a steep scrub-oak bank. I conditions and elevations, but try to squirmed for the insufferable conceit lasso them and they balk. Seed germ of the fool that I was, attempting to inates readily but the seedlings die construct an attractive artificial gar when transplal'lted. It has been sug den in competition with this natural gested that they are parasitic. Plants one-acres dotted all at once with Oct., 1935 THE NATIONAL HORTICULTURAL MAGAZINE 309
Anogm albicaulis
K. N. M Gniage A1'gemone platycems 310 THE NATIONAL HORTICULTURAL MAGAZINE Oct., 1935
K. N . Marriage Asclepias pll11'/,ila
K. N . AI arriage Ast1'agalus sp . Oct., 1935 THE NATIONAL HORTICULTURAL MAGAZINE 311
Ane1'1wn.e pulsatilla, Sand L iIi e s , that the several stems of a plant take bright rosy pink Vetch, Asclepias turns at quivering and so the plant pU11'l,ila, Lithos pe1'HLu.11IL ang~£stifoli um'L, is never still at one time, M e1'tensia lal1c eolata, C o1'ydalis chei One of the polo fields here is un lanthifolia, Townsendia escapa, and usually rich in flowers-no, not the the first of the Aragallus, T1'adescan dandelion one, All of the native spe tia Vil'gi'l1ica (\,yidow's Tears-dry up cies of aragallus and astragalus have a quickly), But to get back to our mou round-up here and from early May tons : We make notes on where to till late June they are in festive togs collect seed later, marking individual pale lavender white and pink and as plants that show distinction, and flow these go the brightest purple red A1'a ering plants of Sand Lily for this has gallus La11ll,berti comes-they may be such a long tube that the capsule is the magenta scorned of the garden but below the surface of the ground and they make a gorgeous effect in this we must dig for seeds. green field. Lucky they timed their While one does all this another party before polo season! These are takes pictures, or scorches the grass all more difficult to grow from col with sulphurous language at a pent lected plants than from seed so we stemon that jitters in the wind. No get only a few young plants of each one with less than Quaker morals and and these with soil on their roots. Quaker patience should try to photo Time to go home-but as the snow graph pentstemons with lens or films is melting on Pike's Peak there'll except of highest speed, They've the soon be great doings among the al most aggravating way of arranging pines up there. Plant Collecting in the Canadian Rockies ROBERT M. SENIOR
EVERYONE who has visited our Na The valley in which Jasper is sit tional Parks in the Rocky Mountains uated is approximately 3,500 feet is aware that each has distinctive scen above sea level-for example, only ery, and for that matter, more or less about one-half as high as Rocky distinctive flora and fauna. Bryce Mountain National Park in Colorado; Canyon National Park is noted for its but owing to the fact Jasper is so fantastic and multicolored rock forma much further north, one will finc! here tions, Mesa Verde for its remains of many flowers that, further south, the Cliff Dwellings, Yellowstone for grow at much higher altitudes. Possi its geysers, hot springs, and other bly it may be of interest to mention weird natural phenomena, Glacier Na some of the plants that are found in tional Park for its rugged, towering both Parks. Here are a few, taken at mountains. Comparatively few of our random: Anemone globosa, and patens, tourists have visited the Canadian Alli~£1n Ce1'nUu,11'/" Aste'r L-il7dleyawus, National Parks, and particularly one Castilleja 1ni11iata, Cle11latis columbiana, of the most glorious in North Amer C hmnaeniriu111, latifol-iu11'I" Das,)lphoro ica-Jasper National Park. Here are fruticosa, Dryas octopetals, Gentiana to be found high snow clad mountains, a711arella, Gwillordia G1'istata, Galiu1n huge glaciers, glorious falls, and swift boreale, Lilium 11LOntawL£1'JIL, Linum flowing, silt laden rivers. Lewisii, SedU11'L stenopetalu1n, Z')lga The little town of Jasper is reached del7~(s elcgans. by the Canadian National railway For those who have bog garclens, it the most northerly transcontinental would be well worth trying some of line in North America. Here we ar the flowers growing on the damp rived early in July, intent on spending turfy ground adjoining the brooks a month, fishing, and t ram pin g and ponds of this Canadian park. through the mountains. Our head There is a charming primrose (P, quarters were the well-run, comfort maccalliana) , growing about 4 inches able Jasper Park Lodge-really the high, that is comparatively unknown only large, commodious hotel in the to rock gardeners, which is found in Park. Located in a large valley, with great quantities, ancl somewhat re a lovely lake a stone's throw from our sembles a diminutive p, fari'l'losa, At porch, and just beyond, the rushing tractive lobelias (L. kalmii) , and low Athabasca river, with high snow cap dodecatheons (D. paucifionml,) cover ped mountains for a background, one the ground, and side by side grow could sit contentedly for hours, gaz clumps of Dryas integ1'ifolia, which ing at the magnificent panorama. even in seed, with their feathery But it is not my purpose to discuss plumed heads, are a charming sight. the scenery of Jasper, or to tell of the Here and there, one comes across abundance of wildli fe, the interesting Ladies Tresses (S pi1'anthes 1'olllal'lzof automobile rides, the endless trails: fia) and several varieties of orchis. but rather we shall limit our excur In July, the Butterwort is no longer sions to a search for the Alpine plants in bloom, but the greasy basal leaves, that bedeck the meadows and moun that threaten to melt in your hand, tains. are still a source of interest. [312] Oct., 1935 THE NATIONAL HORTICULTURAL MAGAZINE 313
An~-ica c01'difolia 314 THE NATIONAL HORTICULTURAL MAGAZINE Oct., 1935
A few steps beyond these damp sit close to the ground, and frequent loving plants, on ground that is pos ly take on a more brilliant hue than sibly two or three feet higher, one their sisters, in the valley below. Pos may encounter a clump of pines sibly the first to attract the eye is the (Pinus contoTta) , and beneath thei r heavenly blue alpine forget-me-not protecting shade, not only the orchis (M yosotis alpestr-is). Of course the grows, but also the lady's slipper moss campion (Silene acaulis) which both the yellow one (CYPTip ediu11'b frequents the mountains tops through pa1'vijlo1'·Um.) , and the much rarer out the Rockies, hugs innumerable white one (c. passe1'inu111.). Some of rocks and crevices. This plant will the plants that we find in our eastern frequently survive in a cool spot in states, such as the bunchberry, the our rock gardens, but for me it is a pyrola, the calypso, are also encoun perverse little creature, in that it de tered. clines to bloom when in a civilized en On many of the low hills, border vironment. I have doctored it alter ing the forest, in full sunshine, and nately with stones, sand, loam, and hugging the rocks, may be found sphagnum, but in every instance it clumps of saxifrage, S. Lyalli and S. has refused to yield its pink jewels. aust1'o-11wntana. This latter plant is On one of these mountains, I en widely dispersed over the Rockies, countered a campanula that I have and with its tiny one-half inch rosettes never found elsewhere in the Rockies. of narrowly lanceolate leaves, from The natives call it C. uniflom; but which emerge short graceful flowering with its tiny one-inch, denticulate, stems, is a sight to delight the eye. acute basal leaves, its purplish-black, This saxifrage is occasionally listed in white-hairy calyx, and large single the catalogues of nurserymen, and if light violet flowers, it does not resem protected with a pane of glass during ble the C. nwiflom that I have seen the winter, should succeed in many of elsewhere. Some people think it is C. our gardens. lasiocarpa, which also has one flower Occasionally on our trips, we would to a stem-and indeed it has a leaf cross a dry stream bed, and here, be somewhat like that plant; b\1t the dark tween endless rocks and boulders, we purple calyx, bearing white hairs, would view literally thousands of marks it as a somewhat different Dryas Dnmb11~ond-ii w a v i n g their species. The accompanying photo plumy seed heads in the breeze. Some graph may enable my readers to of us have raised this lovely plant in identify it for me. our rock gardens, only to have it dis At the very summit of these moun appear after a year or two. No doubt tains, not a plant grows over four we should take a leaf from Nature's inches high; in fact snow covers the book, and try it again on a scree com surface for such a large part of the posed mostly of rock and gravel. year that it is surprising any plant Several horseback trails lead to the whatsoever can exist; therefore it is summits of some of the neighboring necessary for the wee plant to bloom mountains. In approximately two to and mature its seed within a brief three hours one can reach the timber space of time. One may often see an line, and here again, an entirely dif alpine in full bloom today, and come ferent type of plants appears. On back to the same spot ten days later these windswept slopes, all the flowers to find the seed pod fully matured. Oct, 1935 THE NATIONAL HORTICULTURAL MAGAZINE 315
U ppe?' left-Ane?1~o lie D1'U?1'L?1'Lo'l'ldii, A. occidentalis, S axifraga a~Htro-mOli tana
Upper right-C'Ypripedi~~m pa?'vifi01'mn, C. passerinum in lower left
Lowe?' left-C hamaeneri01'~ latifoli14.1n Lower right- The unknown ca'l1lpanula referred to in this pape1' 31G THE NATIONAL HORTICULTURAL MAGAZINE Oct., 1.935
On one of the bleakest mountains, Another glorious sight-on the hill at the very top, I came across large sides, not far from the glacier-are clumps of D1'Yas octapetala. This the mountain heathers-the so-called plant seems to have wonderful powers false white heather (Phyllodoce glan of adaptation: seeds brought down dulijlO1'a) , and the pink one (Phyllo from immense heights, even as far as doce empetriforw/,is). Associated with the seashore, given proper soil con them is the white heath (Cassiope ditions' germinate and thrive in our me1'tensiana). Sometimes one finds gardens. huge drifts of these plants, intermin The accompanying photograph may gled in such dense clumps, that no give an idea of some of the plants other vegetation is able to compete found within a few hundred yards with them. fr0111 the base of the snow-covered Of the shrubs, the one 111 0st fre Mt. Edith Cavell. Here, growing al quently encountered is the buffalo most side by side, were the huge, very (S heph erdia canad e11s1's) , a bush plumy seed heads of the beautiful about three feet hi gh. with masses of anemone occidentali s, together with a red berries pressing the stems. each smaller and comparatively rare ane berry about the size of our wild cher mone (A . DrU111.11Wndi). Beside these ri es : occasionally one finds a plant plants can be seen the several fl ower bearing orange colored fruit. I have ing stems of Sa,'!:ifraga a££strO-1nontana. never seen this bush under cultivation, Unfortunately my kodak was unable but I have brought home a large num to include the moss champion (Silene ber of seeds, and have hopes that it acaulis) , and a relatively tiny arnica may be a distinct acquisition to my growing two or three feet away. collection of low-growi ng shrubs. Although I brought back seeds of At a somewhat hi gher altitude, I Anemone occidentalis, I almost despair found two ericaceous shrubs that I of raising the plant. Because of its had never seen before. Azaleastnr7n charm, I have tried it again and again, albifton£11'l., called by the natives the but without success. The seeds will white rhododendron. and M enziesia germinate, though they are slow in fe1Tnginea . Both of these plants are doing so; however, when the hot days about two to five feet high. and bear of summer approach, the tiny seed whitish fl owers, those of the former lings seem to pine for their cool being approximately an in ch broad; mountains, and despite all my minis the latter has urn-shaped flowers, trations, fade before my eyes. I won which though not big, are numerous der if rock gardeners east of the Mis enough to attract and please the eye. sissippi have succeeded in raising the By the fiyst of September, the riot perverse creature? of color that one finds on alpine mea A few hundred yards from Ane dow and mountainside begins to fade. wwne occide·ntalis-on a steep shale The little plants have mostly matured bank, where not a blade of grass their seeds, and are preparing them grew-I beheld a yard wide clump of selves for their long winter sleep. The Pentste111,on fntticosus with masses chill, frosty nights warn us that it is of erect, purplish-pink fl owers. How time to take leave of our friends. Re it obtain s enough nutriment to survive luctantly we depart, treasuring in our amid that agglomeration of broken minds the memories of a glorious slate, is incleed a mystery. summer outing. New Zealand Alpines c. R. \iV ORTH
THE article on New Zealand flora of the plant li es more 1\1 its novelty in TI-IE NATIONAL HORTI CULTURAL than in its own merit. MAGAZINE for J anuary, 1935, was de This is not the case, however, with cidedly pessimistic regarding the pos NI. dec01'a, which puts out several sibility of raising ew Zealand alpines prostrate branches set with thick, in this country. A study of the cli rough, greyish leaves. The exqui site matic conditions of these islands, as forget-me-nots of purest white with set forth in L. Cockayne's VegetatiolL golden anthers are produced singly of New Zealand, impresses one even and, this year at least. rather sparing j110re with the apparent futility of any ly. The plant is curious in its be attempts at cultivation in the East havior, fo r while it grows in nature even without the complicating factor in limestone gravel, here it is really of reversal of seasons. happy only in a heavy soil rich in Fortunately my first experiments humus, a soil that deli ghts the Anemo with these intriguing strangers were nes of the P ulsatilla group. Once ob made before reading either discussion, tained, it is easily multiplied by cut so that I started with my confidence tings of the stems, which root as unshaken. \ iV hile little has been at they go. tempted so far, and less accompli shed, Of the other two specles which I the results have been decidedly more have tried, the report is less favorable. encouraging than those from E uro The single seedling of M. unijlO1'a pean gentians, primulas, and andro perished in its first winter, whether saces. from cold or slug I do not know. Of First to arrive in my garden was M. ma.cra11tha only one plant, in a the lemon-yellow M yosotis Trave1'sii. north crevice, has lived through this As small seedlings, plants in the open summer, although it wintered well in survived the terrible winter of 1933- several soi ls and aspects. Its flowers 34, when local reports placed the min are large, with a tube three-quarters imum temperature at anywhere from of an inch long. At first glance they thirty to fifty degrees below zero. seem ugly, greenish brown, but on Whichever figure may be the more closer examination they are quite fas accurate, the weather was cold enough cinating, fl ecked with gold, and with to test the endurance of any plant. golden anthers far down the tube. NI. Tmve1'Sii, growing in ordinary \iV hile I have reason to believe that light soil in sunny positions in the these species are all accurately named, rock garden, fl owered the next June, neither M. 111,acrantha nor M. Trav continuing intermittently until late e1'sii grows as large as it should, the autumn, and averaged about ten self fo rmer lacks the fragrance ascribed to sown seedlings per plant. Most of it, and all three have preferred situa the old plants came through the sec tions quite different from their natural ond winter and flow ered profusely ones. until the terrific rains in July de Seeds of a number of alpines sent stroyed all except a few of the smaller me immediately after the 1934 harvest seedlings. The flowers are rather were sown on their arrival in early small and cup-shaped, and the charm June. Only the Myosotis and two [317 ) 318 THE NATIONAL HORTICULTURAL MAGAZINE Oct., 1935 plants of Gentiana saxosa appeared afraid that its loss must be laid to the first year, and the latter, very tiny, soured soil and careless handling. did not come through the winter. This Although the plants mentioned are year a number of species germinated, but a negligibly small sample of those and Gentiana C01'Y1%bifera has devel now available, they show that it is not oped into stocky plants an inch high, beyond ordinary ability to germinate in a year when most seedlings made the seeds, and that at least some of less than half their normal growth, the species (not merely those from while the present stock of G. saxosa high altitudes, as M yosotis decora is about half as large. Ourisia 11WC1'O stays below 3,000 feet) may be ex carpa is still very tiny, perhaps an pected to survive a severe winter. I eighth of an inch across, while a few hope that other gardeners will feel seeds of O. caespitosa, Wahlenbergia sufficiently encouraged by these slight albo-ma1'ginata, H ebe linifolia, and efforts to join in the exploration of a RaouZ,ia gmndifiom germinated and rich and curious flora. died. As the wahlenbergia had made some growth before it vanished, I am Groton, New York. A Book or Two
The Book of the Seashore. By How More than one reading of this book ard J. Shannon. Doubleday, Doran will be necessary, however, to find all Company, Garden City, N. Y, 1935. the valuable bits of advice, the gently 281 pages, illustrated. $3.50. expressed principles in this work. No This is not a garden book in the final inflexible formulae are here but strictest sense of the word but it is just much sage advice . the sort of book that every gardener should read in order to see the fullness Ca1'de17ing in the Greenhouse. By Anne of life one can find by really learning Dorrance. Doubleday, Doran Com to hear and see. The author is a pany, Garden Ci ty, N. Y, 193 5. naturalist with long years of seeing 129 pages, illustrated. $1.50. and knowing behind him and a par This is not a greenhouse guide for ticular focus of attention on life along a professional who wants commercial the shore. The book is worth reading production on any phase of garden for itself, even if plant life is the least work. It is rather a most readable important element of the discussion, text describing the pleasures and pos but to the reviewer" there is the more sible difficulties of the home gardener important element of the seeing eye who wants fl owers through the win and understanding mind. ter, of a garden character rather than of fl ori st's types. Don't read it un Flowe1' Armnge111,ent. By F. F. Rock less you want to be tempted to a well and Esther Grayson. The Mac greenhouse of your own or else read millan Company, New York. 137 it and sllccumb to co ntinued garden pages, illustrated. $3.00. dissipations. Almost any flower arrangement book is worth a first reading because each Paxton anti the BaclLeI07' Dnlw. By author seems to bring to hi s or her Violet R. Markham. London, H od work a special selective sense that il der and Stoughton, Ltd., 1935. 350 lumines one or more phases of this in pages, frontispiece, plates. 20/ net. teresting subject. For the present re Many gardeners will be interested viewer the interesting thing in this in this biography, written with candor hook is the analytic diagrams which and an admirable degree of detachment are accompanied by equally interesting by the granddaughter of Sir William discussions. These are simple and re Paxton, who was farmer's son, gar duce the elements studied, whether of dener of Chatsworth, editor of the plant material or container, to the es H ortic~dtuml Register and the M aga sential elements to be considered in zine of Botany, co-founder of the Gar making the designs. The discussion dener's Chronicle, man of busi ness, of "Types of Arrangements" is also traveller, designer of the Crystal Pal valuable although, in the opinion of the ace, Member of Parliament. For more reviewer, some phases are omitted, than thirty years he was gardener and particularly in the di scll ssions of mod· agent to the Bachelor Duke, William ern and modernistic designs. Spencer, sixth Duke of Devonshire. [319] 320 THE NATIONAL HORTICULTURAL MAGAZINE Oct., 1935
Simple, forthright, practical, of varied With their water-holding leaves and interests and driving energy, he is in their evident equipment for attraction, vivid contrast to the Duke, who, en trapping, holding, and killing insects, dowed with wi t, charm and generosity, they have always stimulated human was at once less forceful and much curiosity. To the older interest has more complex in nature; certain sides now been added the knowledge that of his character Paxton never under some, at least, of the species digest the stood. It is, however, the unique and insects they have caught and utilize nearly lifelong bond of personal feel the product for the plant's own nour ing between these two men so far ishment. Mrs. Walcott now publishes apart in fortune, which gives unity to fifteen full-page colored illustrations the book, even more than the devotion covering all the known North Ameri which they both gave to the beautiful can species, each with a descriptive gardens of Chatsworth. The tale will text, and to this have been added maps take the reader into many unexpected and text by Dr. Edgar T. Wherry, byways, and will illumine many as showing the geographic distribution of pects of the Victorian scene. Nothing the species, and a description, by Dr. is glossed over, not even a depraved Frank Morton Jones, of the marvelous infatuation for the Amucaria excelsa. interrelationship between pitcherplants Gardener and Duke are here "in their and insects, the insects that they catch habits as they lived," and their his and utilize for food, the insects that tories are worth the reading, for they pollinate thei r flowers, and the insects added to the world's beauty. that live and thrive in the same pitch M. P. ers that kill and digest other insects. Mrs. \i\T alcott has produced a book llh£strations of N O1,th American Pit that not only is a work of art, fro111 cherplants, by Mary Vaux Walcott. the beauty and fidelity of its illustra Published by the Smithsonian Insti tions, but is a fountain of scientific tution, Washington, D. c., 1935. knowledge regarding these amazing Quarto. Price $25.00. plans, and she also has told how they From the earliest times the pitcher may be grown in our greenhouses, so plants, conspicuous, strange, and beau that we may watch them at their in tiful among the wile! flowers of Amer sect-catching operations. ica, have excited the wonder and ad miration of those who knew them. FREDERICK V. COVILLE. The Gardener's Pocketbook
A11drostephiu11/, coeruleu1/t Greene. As the bulbs are edible, both for man Several years ago a collector of na and beast, the plants must be guarded tive plants in Texas offered bulbs of both in the garden and in winter this plant with the note that the fl ow storage. ers were like blue daffodils in minia Best results come from bulbs plant ture, enough of a statement to precipi ed in fertile, moist and well·drained tate an order. Unfortuna.tely the dif soil in a situation where sun will be ference in climate between Texas and free, but where beating wind will not Maryland was too great for a success overtake them. In such places the ful issue but the rather brodiaea-like bulbs will send up fine sheaves of corms arrived and eventually showed plaited, palm-like leaves and tall, some slender stalks with a small head of times branched stalks, fr0111 whose lavender-blue flowers, with petals and sheaths, flow er after flower will inner-parts arranged in a somewhat emerge. As can be seen from the pic narcissus-like fashion, After that, ture, there is a central bowl more or nothing more. less blotched with color and three large triangular petal lobes. The type is a This year the plant appears 111 a Colorado list and once more the flat brilliant scarlet, with a bit of yellow corm-like roots have been consigned ground blotched with dull, somewhat to Eastern earth-this time in a cold brownish crimsons. The variations on frame in the hope that their first flow these bits are endless for the blotching ering will be sure enough to warrant may be reduced to a minimum or it a picture for our pages later on, even may run far out on the lobes. The if followed by the still later admission lobes themselves may be pinkish rose, that it will not do for the North, or salmony, clear yellow, or even white, even the northern South. and the, blotching may be reduced to lVI uch more closely related to al nothing at all, leaving a yellow ground liums and brodiaeas than to narcissus in the yellow and white forms. it is to be hoped that some place wili Propagation is by seed which comes be found to its liking, since both bro rapidly, or by the division of the diaeas and alliums are valuable addi roots before planting in the spring. tions to the warm, dry borders here. Planting should be done as soon as danger of frost is past, but if delayed, flowering will be correspondingly de Tigridia pavonia Ker-Gawl. layed into the season when frosts are (See page 322) hazardous. Digging should come as These brilliant Mexican bulbs of the soon as frosts have damaged the iris family are often spoken about but leaves. Lift the whole plant; dry care not as often grown as they well might fully, but not enough to shrivel the be, Two objections are sometimes of bulbs; cut off the tops but leave fered, the first that each flower lasts enough to serve as an easy means of but a day, and second, that one must handling; store in sand that will be lift and store them with some care. cool and moist but not wet. [321] 322 THE NATIONAL HORTICULTURAL MAGAZINE Oct., 1935
Lilian A. Gnemsey [See page 32 1] Tigrid'ia pavo-nia Oct., 1935 THE NATIONAL HORTICULTURAL MAGAZINE 323
W intersweet and ] as111, i1~e. bulb to be a squill. As the illustration No November is considered entirely shows there is not very much of it, satisfactory unless there is at least a but its unusual time of bloom alone flowering bough or two upon the win would insure its use in any garden tersweet (C hi1'nonanthus fragrans). In where the curiO llS and beautiful find a spite of the lazy habits of its cousin , place. the sweet shrub, the wintersweet is by The bulbs are of no great size and no means so docile and dies back to produce more or less stringy masses the ground often enough in its early of lax foliage, above which rise the life to make one dubious, but even nodding stalks of pinkish lavender tually a tougher root system prevails flowers, deeper in bud and paling as and branch by branch the top forms, they open. When first planted the bearing strong l·aterals with large bulbs give only one stalk of bloom and leaves rather harsh to the touch. If the effect is too meagre to appeal, but frost comes early these usually drop as they grow old and wax fa t a foun after turning an indifferent yellow, tain of fl ower stalks makes the appear leaving bare twigs studded with round, ance welcome. dull-brown buds that are to unfold When first obtained, a few bulbs their yellow petals. were kept in a pot in a cool pit where Although a later season is more or their flowering was untouched by au thodox, my own plant always fl owers tumn rains and took on that added in November and fills the frosty air beauty that all flowers find in protec with its heady perfume-that of old tion from the uncertainties of weather. Chinese narcissus. In Japan it blooms Washington, D. C. in January or February and is call ed the Robai (yellow plum) because it Narciss~bs Notes. comes just before their famous plum Although the season for planting blossom season. narcissus is long passed and the new Jasmine flowers in November, on catalogs are not yet ready to stir one's the other hand, are a mixed delight, imagination for 1936, this time of year for if they come now there will be is the best for thinking back over the fewer to come in March, when they last year's notes to lead one to pre are even more needed and appreciated. liminary choices for the new year. Nevertheless, a lusty plant or two of Among the brilliantly colored flow naked jasmine planted in a warm cor· ers that have been in the garden long ner will usually yield its unseasonable enough to show that they will be cer crop at times when a few sprays for tain to succeed and make a permanent the house will be doubly welcome, place for themselves one might easily making with Christmas roses, johnny choose Killigrew. Here, this grows as jump-ups, Elwes' snowdrop and such vigorously and fl oriferously as Ber ,the delightful nosegays of the end of nardino. Possibly it is even more free the year. of increase and flower, which is high praise. Each year it sends up on tall S c'illa aut~mmalis L. (See page 324) stems its fine yellow fl owers with their There are squills and squills. If orange-frilled cups, splendid for cut your ideas are limited to the peacock ting and excellent for showing. Gari blue of Siberian squills, you might not baldi, with rather more moderate guess this fragile autumn-flowering growth, seems likely to become a 324 THE NATIONAL HORTICULTURAL MAGAZINE Oct., 1935
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. Lilian A. Gue'l'nsey [See page 323] S c,illa. autum'na.l-is Oct., 1935 THE NATIONAL HORTICULTURAL MAGAZINE 325
standard variety with deeper yellow ious for its growth in any but very perianth and redder cup. A mong the dry situation is regular and free and brightly contrasted flowers it is less its tall stemmed flow ers open early in expensive than most, but holds its the season when the garden is over-full own well against all save the most ex of yellow trumpet varieties. pensive novelties, most of which will Technically placed in the Giant not be common garden plants for Leedsii Section, it might be considered some years to come. by gardeners as a white trumpet for As a flower of particular distinction its fine, trumpet-shaped cup is only an and delicate charm, one may safely iota short of being a trumpet in fact. choose Fairy Circle. It is most easily The color is a uniform white, not a described as a poeticus-like Leedsii of glistening greenish white, as in Beer white, with a narrow edge of cerise on sheba, but an enamel-like white that is the flat white eye. Like the Leedsii quite its own. The flow ers are very and poeticus varieties, it is free of lasting on the plant and unless there increase. is a day of unseasonable heat, may be Among the large and brilliant yel counted upon for several weeks. low trumpets a word should be said For such as raise seedlings, it may for Aerolite, which has charmingly be recorded that its pollen is highly smooth flowers of clear yellow that fertile and that it yields good pods of are distinguished by their rather slen seed. From Great Britain come re der trumpets in contrast to the usually ports that its progeny are excellent. larger trumpet styles. Another variety of vigor and florif Autu11'L1'b -Flowe1'1>ng Bulbs, R e111,inders. erousness is the Barrii Calcutta, which is mid-season to late in flower. Its It is not necessary, perhaps, to re perianth is a creamy-white and its cup mind readers of the value of autumn a brilliant orange shading to reel on flowering crocus species, since catalogs the edge. are giving more of these each season, A very good late white trumpet is but perhaps a crocus-lover will be the Irish variety, Kenbane (pro forgiven if he mentions once more nounced Ken-bann) which is almost C1'OC'bbS byzanti1'bus, more often thought the last of this type to flower, showing of as C. i1'1;dijlorus and C. 11'bed'i'b£s. enamel-like white flowers among lush The first flowers soon after C. spe blue-green h~ aves. ciosus and is most interesting because the inner three-perianth segments are NQ;rciss~bS, Naxos (See page 326) small, giving the flower an appearance something like Iris ungtbicularis. The Of garden narcissus there are no end second has large, rounded flowers of and the claims put forward for each a deep warm purple that is very bril one are almost unbelievable in their liant. warmth and positiveness. The present Showing about the same time are comment is doubtless as prejudiced or the fine flower-heads of our native Al partisan, but surely the picture will lium stellatu111£ already mentioned in speak somewhat for its own defense. this journal. Blooming through Sep Originated some years ago by the tember and well into October, this Brodie of Brodie, this Giant Leedsii plant is most welcome for its heads of variety has made slow progress in the rosy-purple flowers are fully two garden world which seems rather cur- inches in diameter and last through 326 THE NATIONAL HORTICULTURAL MAGAZINE Oct., 1935
Lilian A . Gnernsey [See page 325] Narcissus, Naxos Oct., 1935 THE NATIONAL HORTICULTURAL MAGAZINE 327 early frosts, even to a safe maturing where it touched the earth. Cuttings of their seeds. taken in early autumn usually root Of Sternbergia ILl.tea, nothing need well, forming a fat bud at each node, be said, save it is appearing in more which pushes into growth in spring. and more gardens, but a word should There are other species in this genus be said for the equally old and well that are worth attention although they known N erin.e sarn:ie11Se, which ex offer only minor variations in color peri
Lilian A. GlIe1"7!sey [See page 327] Oct., 1935 THE NATIONAL HORTICULTURAL MAGAZINE 329 exqui sitely formed small leaves have images of holly are the spines that line a distinct charm of their own. fles the margins of the leaves in familiar 1'ot~(, 'nda where it will grow will proba species, we scarcely recognize as hol bly be worthwhile for its smooth, al li es, those forms that have unarmed most spineless leaves, but will proba leaves. For several years the handsome bly be disappointing in its rather mall plants of this species growi ng at the red berries. flex jugisall e'l'lsis is still Barbour Lathrop Plant Introduction too small a plant to deserve more than Garden beyond Savannah, Ga., have mention, but young plants are unde heen fruitin g freely, prod ucing fine niably evergreen and appear to be scarlet berries so close to the ends of quite hardy to cold. the twigs as to be particularly conspic One wonders a little if by careful uous. The leaves are of a fine dark pruning and cultivation, Stra11vaes£a green, untouched by scorch or sun David£ana 111ight not be forced into burn, and so far undiscovered by min the habit of a small tree. Its early ers. Cut and treated like ordinary vigorous growth as a shrub is so often holly in decoration, the plant seems marred . by the extraordinary length quite as satisfactory as any. of the annual growths which wave The ultimate limits of its hardiness about like bare whips before any lat are uncletermined. Young plants have eral branches are formed, that the ex shown no damage near Washington, periment should be made. As its either in the severe wi nter of 1933-34, leaves take on pleasant tints of pur or 1934-35 more than the usual dam plish-bronze during cold weather it ages to leaves that show in other hardy would add a new color note in mixed species. As it is of J apanese nativity, plantings. It is, however, damaged it may prove to be another broad by temperatures that often go below leaved evergreen tree for our winter zero. landscape. One could hope that some patient gardener may yet be found who will Eupato1'ium Brune1'i hunt out the absolute northern limits, both of our native live oak and Caro The familiar J oe-Pye Weed of our lina evergreen cherry and grow seed roadsides, Eupatoriu11~ PU1'pu1'eu111" lings among which some might be has an interesting Western relative, found to carry the limits even farther introduced into cultivation during re north. If also, there could later be cent years as E'L('patoriu111, Bruneri, added some of the evergreen fo rms of which is destined to make a perma Castano psis from the Orient, we nent place for itself in our gardens. should have another group of ever Less robust in habit than pU1'pUreU11ll, greens to diversify the winter scene. is this newcomer, growing about three feet in height, and carrying itself flex pU1'purea HassI<. (See page 330) somewhat more gracefully. It is, however, still a large plant, particu In recent years more attenti on is be larly suited to the hardy mixed border ing paid to hollies, not only in the or the wild garden. When massed selection and vegetative propagation of against dark leaved shrubs, its real the best forms of our native fle."C opa garden value is best appreciated. ca, but the search for other species The fl ossy fl ower clusters of B1'une1'i, with which to augment our collecti ons. terminating the leafy stalks in late So firmly rooted in our mental summer, are its chi ef attraction. In 330 THE NATIONAL HORTICULTURAL MAGAZINE Oct., 1935
Lilia~~ A. Guer1~Se3' [See page 329} Oct., 1935 THE NATIONAL HORTICULTURAL MAGAZINE 331 coloring they are of soft purplish much to their liking, the trees are tones, very striking and beautiful. filled with humming for the weeks of When cut and combined with leaves "ummer flowering. of purple plum and sprays of budef After the blooming, follows the de l'eia in loose arrangement for a large velopment of the fruits, beautifully vase or basket, this plant is raised made and sometimes cut off to serve to a place of outstanding merit as a as decorations for the craft baskets of cut flower. the region. In each are myriad seeds, B1'uned s tastes are simple. Ordi all of which germinate freely and make nary loam in a moist, half-shady posi millions more of trees to fill the coun tion are its cultural requirements. It try side. is planted either in spring or autumn, The most talked of feature of the a foot to fifteen inches space being plant is the bark which suggests birch allowed between plants. For the great bark in its habits, but is of a more est beauty in the border, and to keep delicate texture and a cork-like sur it from encroaching upon the terri face_ Its resistance to fires often saves tory of other less invasive plants, it the trees when growing in grasslands is usually lifted and divided into small that are burned over. sections every year or every second year. Begonia Evansiana All in all, this member of the Joe Pye group IS a native plant worth This species mentioned in Mr. Rob knowing. inson's article has another interest for CLAIRE NORTON. gardeners in colder parts of the United Silver Plume, Colo. States, for to all practical purposes it is a "hardy" begonia. So far no M elaleuca leucadendron L. records have been discovered as to the (See page 332) ultimate limits of its hardiness in the North, but the recent winters that N early every winter visitors to Flor have proven such a test have left it ida will sooner or later encounter this unscathed here where the thermometer introduced tree, known as the cajaput, has fallen below zero_ that has made itself so much at home For the gardener who can supply as to be almost an invader in some an ample addition of leaf-soil and a spots. Remarkably tolerant of wet soil reasonably constant moisture in the and even of soil in which salt is pres soil this plant makes an invaluable ent, it is more than useful as a varia perennial for autumn-flowering, for it tion from the equally omnipresent begins in September and continues un casaurina. It makes a pleasant small til frost, with a fine display of clear, tree that can be planted freely to form rose-pink flowers, that show well informal hedges and low windbreaks, above the splendid yellow-green leaves. although it is by no means so deep Usually seed ripens before frost rooted that it can withstand gales. The but there is no need for sowing seed foliage is evergreen, somewhat aro since every year, the crop of bublets matic when crushed and the flowering that fall to earth from the leafaxils, twigs are lined with blooms where somewhat in the fashion of the tiger masses of white stamens remind one lily, sprout and make an indefinite of its cousins, the brilliant crimson supply of young plants. If these are bottlebrushes. As the bees find these transplanted promptly, even into per- 332 THE NATIONAL HORTICULTURAL MAGAZINE Oct., 1935
M ichael Ca. ITon [See page 331] lVI elaleuca leucadend1'on Oct. , 1935 T H E NATIONAL HORTI CULTURAL MAGAZINE 333 manent spots of properly prepared one must watch to discover when a soil , most of them will fl ower the first winter spray is needed to keep the year, although not so profusely as scales in check. older and more established plants. In this latitude the fl oweri ng over M entzelia decap etala. laps that of J apanese anemones, E ~~ pat01'iu lIl co elestin:u.m and the earliest Do you want something very much chrysanthemums. Like the anemones, out of the ordinary? T hen try M ent our plant will do very well with only zelia decap etala, or as it is called partial sunshine so that it can always where it grows wild on the chalk be considered fo r shady places, if its hi lls in the western plains, "Chalk requirements fo r moisture are not fo r L ily," even if it is not a true lily. gotten. It is a large, stiff, tree-like plant growing in pyramidal shape, with the Euony1'/H1S H a111-1:l to n iana Wall. lower branches just clearing the (See page 334) ground and all thickly twigged, each tip a big, upright, twisted candle of a N early all the spindle-trees can be bud which opens, a bit before sun remembered as of greatest value in the down, into a gorgeous, cactus-like autumn, fo r no matter how interesting fl ower of delicately fragrant, creamy or 110W late theIr fl owering may be, whiteness. The flowe r is from three the fl owers themselves are rarely to fi ve inches across, with ten petals showy in the sense of the word that and hundreds of thick stamens. It is brings to mind lilac or crape myrtle. an experience to be remembered, to Autumn, however, brings a diffe rent watch the Mentzelia buds unfurl, they story fo r the fruits that have been do it so rapidly t hat one is apt to miss half-hidden in the leaves commence to the treat if he is not careful. You show brilliant colors and break open to look at them and they are all rolled show even more brilliantly colored tightly and t he next thing you know seed that hold their own in competition t here they are wi de open. with the fl ambouyant fo liage. Each fl ower lasts fo r several days This plant, from the O rient, is rather but closes in the morning before the tree-like in its habit, with vigorous sun gets hot. And it is wonderfully growth, green-barked young shoots, generous with its bloom as the plants fine foliage that often bleaches to ivory are literally loaded with buds and white before turning pinkish. The fl owers. T he fl owers get smaller as fruits, which show clearly in our cut the hot season advances but even in are pi nkish to pink, and the seeds they the drouth, when all of the leaves disclose are coated with a scarlet were killed, there were still a few orange, fl eshy aril that gives a startling brave blooms after frost. The seed, contrast. The leaves eventually fall, which look very much like a tomato leaving the fruits in full display until seed, are fo rmed in an upright, open severe weather sports them. ended pod. T he leaves are scattering, A ll the euonymus are hungry plants large, oval and deeply cut, a dusky and their masses of fibrous roots can green, rough and unpleasant to the rob all the soil about them. For this hands or clothing. M e·n,tzel-ia decap e reason their company must be chosen tala appears to be a bi ennial, though, with some care. Most of them are at if they get an unsually early start and tacked at times by scale insects so that no set back in t heir growth, they will 334 THE NATIONAL HORTICULTURAL MAGAZINE Oct., 1935
Lilian A. G1!ernsey [See page 3331 Euony11'''US H amiltoniana Oct., 1935 THE NATIONAL HORTICULTURAL MAGAZINE 335
bloom the first year and that is the inches high. The Anemone is a sun end of th~m. Ordinarily, though, they worshiper and only stays open when grow along slowly for the first year, the sun is warm, but opens again for live unprotected through the most try many days, which, together with the ing winters imaginable, and start off large number produced from each growing with a snap in the spring. If tuber, makes the blooming season last you ever see Chalk Lilies blooming for weeks. There is nothing prettier in the garden on a moonlight night I for a colony in the rock garden than am sure you will agree with me that this Wind Flower. The pity is that you have found something decidedly it is so little appreciated, for culti worth while. vation and road building is fast driv ing it from the old buffalo wallow The Pra1:rie Wind Flower. indented prairies. This same Ane Everyone loves blue flowers ; but mone in white with a lavender re there are blues and blues. The Gen verse to the petals is pretty also and tian, so much sought after, and so dis much more plentiful than the blue_ couraging for the most of us, is usu One finds them growing together ally considered the gem of blues. To quite often. me the cold blue of the Gentian is not ALBERTA MAGERS. to be compared with the warm, soft Sterling, Kans. shade of the prairie "daisy." I have never known wha:t Anemone this Cytisus pmecox Bean. (See page 336) Wind Flower is, but I do know of N early everyone knows or knows of its beauty and homey, garden adapta Scotch broom and in this era of rock bility. It will snuggle down, and gardens there are many who know slowly increase, in any spot where some of the dwarf species of Cytisus it has the sun and good drai'n5ge, and some of the brilliant hybrids as provided you let it alone and keep well, but one does not often come other plants from smothering it out. Then early in the spring if you do across plants of this hybrid bred from not love this big, wide open, intense C. 111ultiflorus x pU1'gans which always ly blue "daisy" with its golden heart calls for comment in the garden here_ you are indeed hard to ple'!-se. As the plant came originally from a This Anemone grows from a tiny New England nursery it is presumably irregular shaped tuber. The leaves hardy to cold and as it has survived are few, three or four at most, dark here for years under our wide ex green and deeply divided, on short tremes of heat and cold, it must cer stems; and are always up in the fall tainly be classed as tolerant. if there are to be flowers next spring. After a slow start it soon grew its If the fall is wet there are spring full height of four feet and commenced "daisies," if dry you can not even to fill out its fountain-like head of slen find the plants, but they are there der gray-green branches that are ready to bloom whenever the tubers clothed in spring with silky leaves and get moisture enough in the fall to hundreds of creamy white flowers of build their surprisingly large number the size shown. In books one is al of big, dollar-sized flowers. The flow ways reminded that these flowers have ers open on about three inch stems faintly unpleasant odor, but no one which gradually lengthen until the big bothers to say that-you must bury seed puff is often waving nine or ten your face in them to find it out! So, 336 THE NATIONAL HORTICULTURAL MAGAZINE Oct., 1935
Lilian A. Gue1'11sey [See page 3351 Cytisus pmeco% Oct., 1935 THE NATIONAL HORTICULTURAL MAGAZINE 337 let it be commended for a pleasant certain amount of winter-killing is not foreground spot where it will not be serious. Doubtless it will never be a crowded, and where it will make an shrub chosen to replace the more con unforgettable picture early in the spicuous plants in the shrub border, spring. The only "don't" to be re but it makes a pleasant variation called is that, like its kind, it does not among them and furnishes charming enjoy transplanting, so don't be vacil sprays of berries for cutting and com lating about choosing its permanent bining with autumn flowers, chrysan position. themums, Japanese anemones and late bloom from Chinese delphiniums being C allicarpa Gimldial1a Hesse. obvious examples. (See page 338) Washington, D. C. Each returning autumn brings a OJ Roots al1d Othe1' Matters keener interest in fruiting shrubs, In gardens where bulbs are favor which brings to the landscape almost ites, there comes a time in late au as much beauty as the flowering tumn when the gardener wonders how shrubs of spring and early summer. he ever came to buy so many new So often these shrubs have fruits of ones or why he ever undertook to red or black, that the appearance of a dig and increase so many of his old finely berried shrub with fruits of bulbs in one and rt: he same season. pinkish violet is occasion for remark. Then it is that the diversity of the \ -Vithin our own states, particularly bulbs themselves is truly welcome for through the Southeast, there is the after planting several thousand nar common Callica1'pa a11I/,erica1w with its cissus or tulips, it is a pleasure to open coarse leaves, somewhat stiff habit a cornucopia filled with buckwheat and masses of dull violet fruits. More shells and shake out the dozen reticu common in gardens is the more grace lated corms of some crocus species or ful oriental species, C. dichoto111/,a, but a sack of equally handsome bulbs of less often does one come upon the h ·is 1'et'iculata. Chinese, C. Gimldiana, the subject of This year the variations here were this note. several and included some plants not Unlike the C. dichot011W which was strictly bulbous, but loosely grouped once more commonly called C. PU1' there since they are sold as dormant purea, with its slender growth and roots of a more or less bulbous ap gracefully over-arching branches, this pearance in bulb planting time. Af,ter species forms a stiff and upright shrub years of procrastination, various bun up to ten feet with coarse foliage, less dles of trilliums arrived. What curi pleasant than that of p~£rpurea, but of ous thickened rootstocks they have, better habit than americana, with more with long snout-like buds for next or less usual cymes of pinkish flowers year's growth and what strange mop that make no special show in mid like masses of feeding roots. summer, and with clusters of pinkish In the same package came the huge violet fruits that are clearly shown in white branched rhizomes of the Giant the illustration. Solomon's Seal so large as to make Apparently the plant is quite hardy our species native here seem a pigmy to cold but it should be remembered and the little uvularias, the merest that it flow ers on new wood so that a fragments. 338 THE NATIONAL HORTICULTURAL MAGAZINE Oct., 1935
[See page 337] C allicarpa Giraldiana Oct., 1935 THE NATIONAL HORTICULTURAL MAGAZINE 339
Of course in the bulb-filled garden ous shape, like slender Chinese bottle one usually digs S{)me up while plant gourds. ing new ones and in these opera.tions, Brodieas once more were added to more than one nest of S ciUa cawf,panu the collection of those already here, lata was tumbled to the surface white strangely disproportionate in their or earth-stained with little fringes of sizes as compared to the inflorescences new roots encircling their sides. and all beautifully coated. Hyacinths came in for a.ttention this Although no bulbs, the curious roots year, fat bulbs with chaffy covering of his stolonifera and Iris Korol that always sets one to wondering /ww-ii always delight with their 10ng why the bulbs of colored varieties arm-like branches each swollen at the might not be bluer for the lavender tip with a fat bud for next season's and purple sorts and pinker for the growth. pink to magenta kinds ins.tead of an And then one turns to lilies. What a I m 0 s t uniform metallic magenta. chance is there for these somewhat Some day this garden must have a shrivelled outer scales to fatten up and few bulbs of every named sort to see resume their normal functiol1's? And if there are subtle differences in bulb why is this species tinted yellow, that color. one reddish and this remain as white A few seedling daffodils had to be as ivory? Bulbs and roots, no two distul1bed and once again their down alike and yet all charged with the ward progress was noted in the curi- same eventual purpose. To Set the Phloxes in Order
In Dr. \Vherry's paper "Our Native Phloxes and Their Horticultural Derivatives," appearing in the July issue of the magazine, various errors crept by, for which the author records the following:
Page C olu11'I,n Line W O1'd Change to be 111.ade 209 1 16 5th for "such" read much 209 1 30 4th for "leaf" read leaf-axils 209 1 last 8th for "B)) read P 212 2 24 2nd for "cones" read clones 213 1 42 6th for "violent" read violet 213 2 77th for "whem" read when · 214 2 23 6th fo r "there" read these 215 2 10 1st fo r "sorolla-" read corolla- 216 1 24 4th for "either" read glandular or 216 1 41 6th for "Far-" read Fer- 216 2 39 1st after "pilosa" insert X 218 2 51st for "AMOENA" read am,oena 21 9 2 19 1st delete "FIG. 8" 219 2 25 5th for "H O1't.)) read Hort. 219 2 38-39 change lines to read: on comparing the illus trations, that of P. stolonifera serving for P1'oc~£mbens 221 1 94th for "inflorencences" read inflorescences 223 1 94th for "P. X" read X P 224 2 55th for "continuouesly" read continuously 224 2 10 3rd for "the" read this 228 1 21 6th fo r "an" read on 230 1 29 4th after "applied" insert to plants 230 1 32 4th for "glaborous" read glabrous.
[340] Index for Volume 14
Figures In italics indicate illustrations
Abies las'ioca-rpa ______251 sa,ximontana ______178, 180 1'eligiosa ______170, 170 Amgallus La1nbertii ______311 Acaena elongata ______170 Arbl/,ttus xalapensis ______170 111 i[1'o p hylia ______7 Aristelia cunn'inghamii ______7 Aciphylla C olensoi ______7 monta1W ______7 co·nspiwa ______7 solandri ______7 11WX17na ______7 trinervis ______7 111 o 11:r oi ______7 A1'thropodiurn C'irrhatum ______7 Aconit'um delphinifohu1'n 138, 144, -249 Asclepias pumila ______310, 311 A denost01'I'l,a fasC'iculat~mL ______193 Asplen-iu111/, filix-fo emina 11 2, 112, 113 sparsi f 0 liu111, ______193 platyneuron ______1 21, 122 Aescu.lus californ1:cus ______188, 189 Tr·ic homa·nes ______123, 124 Agathis a/;tstrat-is ______5, 6 Aster foliaceus ______257 Alectryon excelsum ______8, 9 Astragalus ab01'ig·inorum ______141 aculeatus ______180 AlliU11'L B olanderi ______283 ads·urg ens ______141 falcatum ______283 Atr·iplex can escens ______190, 191 Alpines, New Zealand______317 Atwood, Wm. H . : Anderson, 1. N . : Culture of the Lake Iris ____ 182 Tulipa Kaufmanniana ______200 A utumn·Flowering Bulbs ______33 1 And 'rostephi~£11IL coe1'uleu.111/, ______234 Averett, Mary J udson: Anemone na1,cissifio-ra ____ 152, 154, 233 ] aS11'1,inum nudifiorum ______197 pGJrvi fi01'a ______178 Bamboos ______100 Z e p hym ______175 Beech, Black ______28 Anisotoma antipoda ______7 Red ______28 lati folia ______7 Silver ______28 Anogra albicaulis ______308, 309 Begonia, Abel Carriere ______297, 300 Antennaria alpina ______147 Adrien Schmitt ______297, 303 megalacephala ______232 Breeding ______297 monocephala ______249 Diadema ______297 rosea ______144 Dr eg e'i ______3 01 , 305 Arc eutho biu111/, ______8 Evansiana ______297, 298, 336 A1'ctostaphylos pungens ______168 Rex ______298 A r enaria ae quic aulis ______175 Schar ffiana ______301 , 302 Rossi colu11'"biana ______147 B eils c h1nie da T awa ______5 Sajanesis ______176, 179 Betula glandulosa ______156, 256 v erna pubescens ______147 B 0 trychiu111/, lunGlria ______144 Arge11wne platycems ______184, 308, 309 Bowers, Clement G. : Arnica acuta ______153 Rhododendron japonicum ______93 c01'difolia ______313 lut eum ______2 00, 201 o b tusi folia ______153 micranthum ______284 P GJrryi ______235 minus ______286, 287 A quilegia b1'evistyla ______139 Bmya americana ______248 coerulea ______180 H enryae ______153 columbiana ______146, 149 Buddleia c01'data ______173 342 THE NATIONAL HORTICULTURAL MAGAZINE Oct., 1935
Call icarpa Giraldiana ______341, 342 passerinum ______136, 315 Caltha leptos ephala ______147 Cyathea dealbata ______8 rotundifolia ______178 m eduUaris ~______8 Campanula rotundifolia ______135 Cytisus praeco x ------339, 340 uniflora ______315 Daffodils, Two New Yellow Cardamine cordifolia ______178 T rum pets ______206 Carmichaelia australis ______10, 11 Dean, Mildred: odorata ______10, 11 The Second Gentleman W illiamsii ______12, 13 Farmer ______59. Carp ente ria calif ornica ______186 D elphinium scopulorum glau- Cassinia leptophylla ______12, 14 cum ______136, 138, 255 Cassiope tetragona ______147, 148, 251 D endromecon rigida ______186 Castanopsis chrysophylla 1%inor____ 190 Dic ksonia fib rosa ______8 s em p ervir ens ______188 punctilobula ______114, 115 Castilleja fulva ______139 squarrosa ______8 H aydeni ______178 Dodocatheon frigidum ______153, 156 H enryae ______243 Draba alpvna ______147, 235 miniata ______144 densifolia ______178 sulphurea ______178 flad nizensis ______147, 235 C elmisia argentea ______7 incerta ______147 , 232 A rmstrongii ______7 lonchocar pa ______248 con ac ea ______7 longipes ______147 discolor ______7 Dmcocephahtm m oldavica ______204 holoc eriacea ______7 R uyschianum ______204 H 0 0 k eri ______7 Draco phyllun~ latifoliu,11L______6 tncana ______7 Dryas integrifolia ______153, 250 lanc e 0 lata ______7 Echeveria elegans 173, 174, 174 L indsayi ______7 secunda ______173 rigida ______7 Echinocereus viridiflorus 306, 307 sessili flo ra ______7 Elephantilla groenlandica ______178 Traversii ______7 E piobiu11'L alpimt.111/, ______248 Walkeri ______7 Erigeron aureus acutifolius ______248 Cistus laurifolius ______186 caespitosus ______134 Clematis Hybrids, Large-Flowered 64 co m posittts ______178, 179 Clernatis, T entative Check LisL 78 salsttg'ino sus ______144 Clematis lanuginosa ______65 uniflora ______178 patens ______67 unalas chk ensis ______147 Collecting Plants Beyond the E ritrichium argenteum ______178 Frontier in British Colum- Erythronium, Maroon-Throated __ 93 bia ------______132, 232 Euonymus H a11lLiltoniana ______336, 337 Coma rostaphylos arguta ______170 E upatorium Bnme1-i ______334 Coprosma Baueri ______6, 15, 15, 16 Everett, H. H.: Cunninghamii ______16, 17 Pears in the Garden______102 fo etidissima ______15 Evergreens, Broad-Ieaved ______332 Corn us stolonifem ______257 F ems, American ______105 Corrections ______340 Foote, Florence Edna: Cr epis nana ______144 Two New Daffodils ______206 Cupressus B enthamii ______166, 167 F ouquieria splendens ______184 Cypripediu111; 11'wntanum _____ 2 88, 290 Fox, Helen M. : Oct., 1935 THE NATIONAL HORTICULTURAL MAGAZINE 343
G eraniu1'lL sanguineu7n J ones, Katherine D. : alb~£111£ ______98 Plants of New Zealand Lili~£111, callosum ______100 Grown in California______1 L ilium concol07' pulchelh£111£ 283 Juniperus mexica1w ______170 L upinus cytisoides ______200 Kauri Pine ______5 October in the Garden ______291 Lavandula multifida ______204 Salvia argentea ______208 pinnata ______204 Fremontia californica ______186 L eptospe1'111,U111, scopariu111/, ______6 californica 1nexicana____ I86, 187 L ewisia pygmaea ______175, 176 F uc hsia minutu fio ra ______170 Ligustn£111, japonicu1n ______332 G entiana acaulis ______175 lucidu111£ ______166, 332 adsu,r gens ______173 Lilacs, Early ______198 elegans ______175 L iliu1n callosum ______100, 101 9 lauca ------156 concolor pu.lchellu11L_283, 285 pr 0 pinqua ______235 L innaea borealis ______136 prostata ______147 L inU111, L ewisili ______135 spathacea ______173 Lonicem glal/,£cescens ______139 Geranium sanguineum album______98 Lupinus arcticus ____ 141, 150, 153, 232 T raversii elegans ______7 cytisoides ______202, 203 G e~£m trifi01'um ______136 Magers, Alberta: Gilia globularis ______178 M entzelia decapetala ______338 Glasscock, Opal Hays: Two Fine Native Prairie Grass ______157 Flowers ______282 Glauciu1n leiocarpum ______206 Windflower of the Prairie 338 Griselinia Lucida ______18, 19 Marriage, Kathleen N: Harkness, Bernard : Plant Collecting ______282 Garden Note ______205 Plant Collecting in the H ebe buxifolia ______6 Colorado Rockies __ 175, 306 cupressoides ______6 M e lal e~£ca leucadendron ______334, 335 hulk eana ______18, 21 M elicope ternata ______20, 25 H edysarum M ackenzii ______232 M entzelia decapetala ______338 H elianthus angustifolius ______96, 97 M ertensia paniculata ______138, 144 H espe1'is tristis ______206 M etrosideros 1'obusta ______5 H ippurus vulgarus ______235 M imulus H allii ______178 H oheria populnea ______18, 22 M yosotide?,£111/, nobile ______7 pupulnea Osb07'nii ______20, 23 Myosotis alpestris ______147, 153, 249 Holly, Chinese, Rooting Cuttings 276 cap-itata ______7 Hume, H , HamId : M yrtus b?'£llata ______24 The Correlation of Classi Narcissus, N axos ______328, 329 fication and Distribu- Narcissus Notes ______328 tion in Zephyranthes ______258 Narcissus, Twink ______198, 199 Huntington, Agnes Fales: Bamboos ______100 N ertem B alfoU1'ia1w ______7 depressa ______7 flex cornuta ______332 fugisanensis ______332 N ico tiana 9 lm£ca ______192 , 193 P ernyi ______332 N othofagus apiculata ______26 rotunda purpu1'ea ______332, 333 B lailrii ______26 his lacustris ______182 Cliffordioides ______26, 27 Iris, Lake, Culture oL ______182 fusca ______27, 28 lsomeris a1'borea ______191 , 191 M enziesii ______25, 27, 28 344 THE NATIONAL HORTICULTURAL MAGAZINE Oct., 1935
S olandri ______8' 28 X f1'ondosa Perfection ______212 o learia ______28 g lab errima ______223, 224 Olea1'1a H aastii ______29, 30 glutinosa ______216 paniculata ______"______31) 32 H oodii ______231 Traversii ______32, 33 K els eyi ______231 Onoclea sensibilis ______116, 117 X lilacina ______212 Opuntia polycantha ______306, 307 X lilacina G. F. Wilson ______212 rhodanthe ______306 11tLaCulata ______224, 225 Ourisia caespitosa ______7 maculata alba ______225 11'tacrocarpa ______7 mo,culata odorata ______225 11'tac1'ophylla ______7 macu.latus pyramidalis ______225 o %y t1' 0 pis arc to bia ______153 multiflorum ______231 Sa%i-11'LOntana ______141 nana ______231 sp lend ens ______235 nivalis ______21 0, 210 viscidula ______138 ovata ______220, 221 Pachystegia insignis ______6 ovata latifolia ______221 Parnassia fi,11tLbriata ______175 panic~tlata ____ ~ ______227, 227 Parynachia pulvinata ______178 paniculata acuminata ______229 Pears in the Garden______102 paniculata scabra ______229 P ediculm'is capitata ______147 panic~data undulata ______229 oederi ______147 pilosa ______214, 214 sudetica ______147 pilosa ample%icaulis ______216 P e11/, tst em-on alpinus ______178 pilosa argillacea ______216 Crandallii ______178 pilosa detonsa ______216 H artwegii ______173 pilosa fulgida ______216 hU1nilis ______180 pilosa vi-rens ______216 pro c erus ______14 0) 141 X P1' 0 c~£11tb ens ______219 P hac el ia s eric ea ______178 X ntg el-ii ______218 P hlo % adsurgens ______230 stolonife1'a ______218, 219 0,111/,0 ena ______217, 217 stolonifera coerulea ______219 amplifolia ------_226) 227 stolonifera crassifolia ______219 andicola ______230 stonifera violacea ______219 bi fida ______212) 213 suhdata ______209, 210 Buckleyi ______220, 220 subulata atropU1'p1,wea ______209 caespitosa ______230 subu.lata australis ______209 ca1' 0 lina ______221, 222 subulata Br·ittoni ______209 carolina altissima ______223 subulata ciliata ______209 ca1'olina ca1'1'J,ea ______223 subulata grandiflora ______209 carolina hete1'ophylla ______223 subulata n elsoni ______209 carolina tri flora ______223 subu,zata nivalis ______209 condensata ------______178, 180 subulata setacea ______209 di ffusa ______231 s~~b~~lata s t ellaria ______209 divaricata ----- ______214, 214 Phloxes, Our Native, and Their diva1'icata Laphami ______215 Horticultural Derivatives ______209 Doug lasii ______231 Dru11'1mwndii ______229 P horadend1'on ______8 Drum11wndii glabriflora __ 230 Phyllodoce e1npet1'if01'mis ______147 Dru1n1nondi stellaris ______230 gla11d~difem ______147 fl01'idana ------______215) 216 Pine, Kauri ______5 X frondosa ------______212 Pinus aristata ______175 X frondosa) Vivid ______212 cont01'ta ______175 Oct., 1935 THE NATIONAL HORTICULTURAL MAGAZINE 345 contorta latifolia ______235 Rubus acaL£lis ______144 leiop hylla ______170 Russell, Paul: montazumwe ______173 Oriental Cherry, Higurashi 202 patula ______172, 173 Rydbergia g1'andifiora ______178 PittOSPO?'U111, crassifoliu111, ______34, 35 S ahx Bar clayi ______139 e1(,ge'l1ioides ______20, 34, 36 g l a~{, ca acut~'f 0 l,'ta ______144 F ai1' child ii ______34, 37 1'eticulata ______178 Plagianthb£s betl£hnus ______38, 39 Salvia arge'l1t ea ______208, 208 Plant Collecting in the Canadian coc c mea ______173 Rockies ______312 m ex I ca1 1a ______168 Plant Collecting in the Colorado pat ens ______173 Rockies ______175, 306 Sax ifraga adscendens ______147 Plant Hunting in Old Mexico ______165 a1'guta ______178 Podoca1'pus dac1'ydioid es ______5 Man halli-i ______147 Polemoniu1'/1, coeruleU1n ______177 oppositifoha ______235, 236 P olypodiu,11't vu,lga,1'e ______125, 126 tric~£spidata ______144, 145, 153 Polystichiu111, acrostichoides __ 129, 131 Scilla autumnalis ______236, 327 Populus tamhamaca ______257 S ed U11~ con fus~£11It ______171, 173 trmtuloides ______141, 257 i nt e g1'ifoli~£m ______175 P omaderris ap etala ______38 11w ranense ______173 elliptica ______38, 40, 42 stenopetalum ______154 ph,yl7:caefol'ia ______38 S e necio c o 11~ pactus ______42 1'ugosa ______38 indecorus ______144 Pot entilla dis sec ta ______144 tetmpte1'a ______A2, 43 Prim~£la egaliksensis 154,155, 156, 232 Senior, Robert M.: Pn{;nus pennsylvanica ______257 Plant Collecting in the Ca- se1'rulata, Higurashi ___ 202, 205 nadian Rockies ______312 Pte1'is aquilina ______118, 119, 120 Shepherdia canadensis ______136 aquilina esculenta ______8 Sherrard, Drew: Purdy, Carl: C yp'rip ediu111, 11wntanU11rt____ 285 West American Sil-enes ______294 Silene H oolle1'i ______287 Q~£erws 11'I,icrophyllus ______173 Shrubs, Flowering, Some Cali- vac nn~ f 0 lw ______188 fornian ______184 RanunculHs exi11'l,ia ______178 Shull, J- Marion: Raoulia ,exiwtia ______8 H elianthus angustifolius____ 96 Rhipogo1fbum scandens ______5 S ilene acaulis ______178 Rhododendron albifion£11~ ___ 233, 256 califo1'1rtica ______295 japonicum ______93, 95 H ookeri ______287, 289, 296 lapponiC'J,£11~ ______232, 256 Ingrami ______294 , 296 luteum ______200, 201 laciniata ______295 Roberts, Edith A. : 11writi11'l,a ______294 American Ferns ______105 pen11sylvanica ______294 Robinson, Alfred D , : vvr g1,n~ca ______294 Begonia Breeding ______297 W herryi ______294 R omneya C oult eri ______184, 185 Silenes, West American ______294 Rosa acicula1'is ______136, 256 S ol 'idag 0 deC'J,£11rtb ens ______156 W oodsii ______141, 256 11f/, ~£lti1'adiata ______249 Rowntree, Lester: Spingarn, J. E.: Some California Flowering The Large-Flowered Cle- Shrubs ______184 matis Hybrids ______64 346 THE NATIONAL HORTICULTURAL MAGAZINE Oct., 1935
Stra11,vaes'ia Davidiana ______332 cae1'ensis ______270 Styrax 0 fficinalis californica______188 caerulea ______.______270 Suttonia australis ______A4, 45 candida ______262, 266 ca1'dinalis ______273, 275 SY111,ph01'ica1'pos albus paucifi01'US 139 mic1'0 phyllus ______173 carinata ______263, 266 chrysa,ntha ______266 Syringa M eyeri ______103, 104 cit1'ina ______266 Talinum calycinum ______283 C O111,111,er so11,iana ______266 TaxodiuwL 111,UCronatu111, ______166, 169 co11,color ______267 Thelespe1'111,um BU1'1'idgeanU111, ____ 206 C onzatti ______267 Thomas, C. c.: cub e11,sis ______267 Some Factors Influencing depauperata ______267 the Rooting of Cuttings entra1'iana ______267 of Chinese Holly______276 e1'ub es cens ______267 Tig1'idia pavonia ______324, 325 filifolia ______267 T ricyrtis hirta ______330, 331 fia111,111,ea ______275 Trifolium dasyphyllum ______178 fiava ______275 Trollius albifi01'US ______175, 177 fransiscana ______270 Tulipa Kauf111,an11,iana ______.200, 207 gracili folia ______270 Vacci11,iu1n confertu1n ______173 gracilis ______275 Valeriana sitchensis ______249 H ie1'onY111,i ______267 V er b ena ciliata ______173 juj 'L~yensis ______270 Veronica W01'WLSkjoldi'i ______144 lilacina ______267 Viola bellidifolia ______176 Lindleyana ______267 neph1'ophylla ______249 long'ifoz.ia ______267, 268 gugulosa ______136 111.aC1'Osiphon ______267 V it ex luc ens ______A4, 47 1nelanopotaw!'ica ______270 Walther, Eric: 111.endocensis ______270 Plant Hunting in Old 111,es 0c hloa ______267 M exi co ______165 minima ______267 Wherry, Edgar T.: N els onii ______268 Our Native Phloxes ______209 oxipetala ______267 Wintersweet and Jasmin e ______326 parv'Lda ______275 Woodsia ilve11,sis ______126, 128 porphyrospila ______270 Worth, C. R.: pseudo-colchint111, ______275 New Zealand Alpines ______317 pulc hella ______268 Z ygadenus elegans ______141 robusta ______270, 272 Zephyranthes, Correlation of Clas- l' os ea ______265 , 268 sification and Distribution ______258 Si1npsonii ______266, 268 Zephyranthes albicans ______271 sylvat'ica ______270 Andersonii ______268, 269 tepicensis ______268 andicola ______270 T exana ______264, 268, 270, 271 Ata111,asco ___ 259, 260, 261, t'imida ______270 262, 264, 266 Treatiae ______267, 268, 268 aurea ______271 tubispatha ______268, 269 B ak eriana ______266 v e'recunda ______268 B eustii ______271 versic olor ______270 bifolia ______266 mride-lutea ______275 B oliviensis ______275 W rig ht,ii ______268 br ev ip es ______266 xiphopetala ______275 Oct., 1935 THE NATIONAL HORTICULTURAL MAGAZINE
THE BEST {Roses A Yew Hedge FOR AMERICA can be had 14 cents Is Not a Boast, It Is Our A mbition this spring a foot 1. By thorough test to have the best varieties 2. By excellent culture to produce the best plants. 3. By personal attention to render the most satisfactory type of service. Star Roses are of such excellence that they can be and are guaranteed to bloom the first blooming period after purchase, failing which we will replace the plant or refund its cost. lTRoses of such dis tinction deserve and do bear a trade mark, a durable, celluloid Star tag on every plant. lTWrite for details regarding "How to Grow Roses" (200 pages), " Success with Roses" (4 times a year), and illus trated lectures by R. Marion Hatton and Robert Pyle. THE CONARD-PYLE CO. * Star Rose Growers * Dark, rich gree n needles win ROBERT PYLE, President ter and summer-hardy in New West Grove 534, Pa. England in the coldest of recent winters-thrives in sun or shade -the U pright Japanese Yew is without equal for hedges. Rare Native Plants from the We offer a special grade 12 to "Land of the Sky" 15 inches high, twice trans Stewartia malacodendron Pachystima canbyi plants (roots packed in moss) Franklinia alatamaha Shortia galacifolia at $20 per 100 plants; $10 for Clinopodium Phlox nivaIis 50. Set them 10 feet apart. carolinianum Gentiana $20 covers 150 feet of hedge. Cuthbertia graminea porphyrio Even an ordinary small privet - Catalog Free - hedge (which is set 6 in. apart) NIK-NAR NURSERY <:osts 8 to 10 cts. a foot! This Biltmore Station Asheville, N. C. is an extraordinary offer! Also Larger Sizes: 18 to 24 inch (ball of earth, see illustration) a t $90 for 100 plarits. Bushy 2 t o 2;;:; RARE ENGLISH feet at $120 per 100. - KELSEY'S 1935 SHORT GUIDE contains 44 pages of bargains and varieties, FLOWER SEEDS with over 100 photos in color--every really desirable evergreen, tree and shrub that 1935 ilhlstrated catalogue, the most com is hardy. Copy free if you mention this magazine (a charge of SO cents west of prehensive ever published, 164 pages, 4,503 Iowa). different kinds of flawer seeds deSCrIbed, including an up-to-date collection of Del Kelsey phini~lms and Lupines and a large selection of H erbaceous and Rock Plants. Free on Nursery Service application to 50 Church St., New York City THOMPSON AND MORGAN Est. 1878 Member A.A.N. IPSWICH, ENGLAND II THE NATIONAL HORTICULTURAL MAGAZINE Oct., 1935 CACTI of Ironclad hardiness Extensive collection ---of rare and beautiful Rock and Alpine Plants ------...... :~- --- All tested as to hardiness and desirability for Rock Gardens. Write for list. Selections of plants fo r cltmatic conditions in Colorado Springs Colorado all parts of the country. Free catalogue on how to have CONTINUOUS NEW AND RARE BLOOM in the rock garden. Species of Rhododendron Many of these have beep grown d irectly from CRONAMERE ALPINE seeds collected in West China, Thibet and ad· jacent territory. List on request. NURSERIES, INC. JOS. B. GABLE Stewartstown P e nnsyl vania Shore Road, Greens Farms, Conn.
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DESIRING to bring the peony manual up to date a supplement has been prepared by that eminent authority on the peony, Professor A. P. Saunders. To those who do not have the peony manual, we desire to advise that there will be no advance in price of the book with the supplement bound in. The present price of ~3 . 15 delivered is still in effect and will bring you the greatest amount of peony information possible to secure in one volume. Over 250 new ratings are shown, in addition to other information of value. To those desiring the supplement only, a price of 50 cents will cover a copy. Keep posted on the new ratings as they will be a helpful guide in making your fall purchases.
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THE AMERICAN IRIS SOCIETY
The American Iris Society, since its organization in 1920, has published 54 Bulle tins which cover every phase of iris growing and should be useful to all gardeners. The Society has copies of all hut three of these Bulletins for sale. A circular giving list of contents of each Bulletin, price, etc., may be secured from the Secretary, B. Y. Morrison, 821 Washington Loan &, Trust Bldg., Washington, D. C. In order to dispose of surplus stocks of some numbers we offer 6 Bulletins (our selection) for $1.00. Through an endowment given as a memorial to the late Bertrand H. Farr the American Iris Society is able to offer free to all Garden Clubs or Horticultural Societies the use of our traveling library. This library contains all books ever published on Iris and a complete file of the bulletins of this society and The English Iris Society, and miscellaneous pamphlets. The library may be borrowed for one month without charge except the actual ex press charges. Organizations desiring it should communicate with the nearest of the following offices:
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