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The NATIONAL HORTICULTURAL MAGAZINE }'\ JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OCTOBER, 1939 The American Horticultural Society PRESENT ROLL OF OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS April 1, 1939 OFFICERS President, Mr. B. Y. Morrison, Washington, D. C. First Vice-President, Mrs. Charles D. Walcott, Washington, D. C. Se·cond Vice-President, Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, Washington, D. C. Secretary, Mrs. Louis S. Scott, Alexandria, Virginia Treasurer, Mr. Henry Parsons Erwin, Washington, D. C. DIRECTORS Terms Expiring 1940 Terms Expiring 1941 Mrs. Mortimer ]. Fox, PeekiSkill, N. Y. Mrs. Walter Douglas, Mexico, D. F. Mrs. Fairfax Harrison, Belvoir, Farquier Mrs. ]. Norman Henry, Gladwyne, Pa. Co., Va. Mrs. Clement S. Houghton, Chestnut Hill, Mrs. Olester Welles, Washington, D. C. Mass. Mrs. William Holland Wilmer, Washington, Mr. Alfred Maclay, Tallahassee, Fla. D.C. Mrs. Arthur Hoyt Scott, Media, Pa. Dr. Donald Wyman, Jamaica Plain, Mass. HONORARY VICE-PRESIDENTS Mr. James H. Porter, Pres., Mrs. Clement Houghton, American Azalea & Camellia Society, American Rock Garden Society, Macon, Ga. 152 Suffolk Road, Chestnut Hill, Mass. Mr. Tom H. Smith, Pres., Dr. L. M. Massey, American Begonia Society, American Rose Society, 1732 Temple Ave., State College of Agriculture, Long Beach, Calif. Ithaca, N. Y. Mr. Wm. T. Marshall, Pres., Cactus & Succulent Society of America, Dr. Robert T. Clausen, Pres., P. O. Box 101, American Fern Society, Pasadena, Calif. Bailey Hortor.ium, Col. Edward Steichen, Pres., Ithaca, N. Y. Delphinium Society, Ridgefield, Conn. Dr. H. H. Everett, Pres., Mrs. John H. Cunningham, Pres., America~ Iris Society, Herb Society of America, 417 Woodmen Accident Bldg., 53 Seaver St., Lincoln, Nebr. Brookline, Mass. Mrs. Frank C. Lambert, Pres., Mr. Chas. F. Wassenberg, Pres., Midwest Horticultural Society, American Peony Society, 100 North Central Park Blvd., Van Wert, Ohio. Chicago, I1l. SOCIETIES AFFILIATED WITH THE AMERICAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 1938 Alexandria, Virginia, Garden ChID, American Fuchsia Society, Miss Alice Eastwood, Secretary, Mrs. Joseph P. Crockett, California Academy of Sciences, 819 Prince St., Golden Gate Park, Alexandria, Va. San Francisco, Calif. American Amaryllis Society, Bethesda Community Garden Club, Mr. Wyndham Hayward, Mrs. Arthur Hilland, Winter Park, Fla. 158 Custer Road, Bethesda, Md. American Begonia Society, California Garden Club Federation, Tom H. Smith, President, Miss E. Marlow, Lib., 1732 Temple Ave., 992 S. Oakland, Long Beach, Calif. Pasadena, Calif. Publicati()n Office, 32nd St. and Elm Ave., Baltimore, Md. Entered as second·class matter January 27, 1932, at the Post Office at Baltimore, Md., under the Act of August 24, 1912. California Horticultural Society, Little Rock Federation of Garden Clubs, Miss Cora R. Brandt, Secretary, Mrs. H. Roddy Jones, 485 California St., 401 Ridgeway, San Francisco, Calif. Little Rock, Ark. Chevy Chase (D. C.) Garden Club, Michigan Horticultural Society, lVlrs. Paul S. Anderson, Paul R. Krone, Secy., 63 19 Delaware St., Horticultural Building, Chevy Chase, Md. East Lansing, Mich. Chevy Chase (Md.) Garden Club, Midwest Horticultural Society, Mrs. Robert Ash, Mrs. 'vValter ]. Scott, Secy., Ashley, Bradley Blvd., 4921 W . Huron St., Bethesda, Md. Chi cago, Ill. Cleveland Garden Center, East Boulevard at Euclid Ave., National Capital Dahlia Society, Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Charles C. Clark, Pres., 21 W. Irving St., Dayton Garden Center, Chevy Chase, Md. c/o Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio. New England Gladiolus Society, James H. Odell, Chairman Ex. Comm .. Fauquier and Loudoun Garden Club, Wellesley Hills, Mass. Mrs. W. F. Rust, Leesburg, Va. Rock Garden Society of Ohio, Mrs. Frank Garry, Federated Garden Clubs of Maryland. 5800 Wyatt Ave., Mrs. Gordon N. Stieff, Pres., Kennedy Heights, Room 300, The Belvedere, Cincinnati, Ohio. Baltimore, Md. Severn River Garden Club, Forest Hills Garden Club, Mrs. Herbert Beatson, Pres., Mrs. Victor V. Kelsey, Pres., 6 Paddington Court, 4720 Linneau Ave., N. W., Baltimore, Md. Washington, D. C. Garden Center Institute of Buffalo. Takoma Horticultural Club, Delaware Park Casino, Mr. Clarence W. Moore, Buffalo, New York. 1351 Kalmia St., N. W., Washington, D. C. Garden Centre, % Iveys Store, The Garden Club of Mathews Co., Asheville, N. C. Mrs. W. H. Reed, Secretary, Nor,th, Mathews Co., Va. Garden Club of Gloucester, iVlrs. N. S. Hopkins, Librarian, The Little Garden Club of Sandy Spring, N uttall, Va. Mrs. Mahlon Kirke IV, Rockville, Md. Garden Club of Kentucky, Mrs. Earl P. Rarold, Pres., The Pittsburgh Garden Center, Bowling Green, Ky. Schenley Park, Pittsburgh, Pa. Garden Club of Virginia, Mrs. Thos. W. Wheelwright, Pres., The San Francisco Garden Club. Buckhead Springs, Va. Room 133, Fairmount Hotel, San Francisco, Cal if. Georgetown Garden Club, Mrs. Louis Mackall, \iVashington Garden Club, 3044 0 St., N. W., Mrs. Thomas F. Law, Washington. D. C. 1729 Varnum St.. Washington, D. C. Home Garden Club of Denver, 4864 Tennyson St., Woodridge Garden Club, Denver, Colo. Dr. Freeman Weiss, 3223 Vista St., N. E., Lake \iVash ington Garden Club, Washington, D. C. Mrs. Charles C. May, Room 4422, 'vVorcester Countv Horticultural Society. White-Henry-Stuart Bldg 30 Elm Street, S'eattle, Wash. Worcester, Mass. [ i 1 The National Horticultural Magazine Vol. 18 Copyright, 1939, by THE AMERICAN HORTICJULTlJRAL SOCIETY No.4 O CTOBER, 1939 CONTENTS California Oenothera Species. LESTER ROWNTREE ________________________________________ 245 Bon'lOa, an Endemic Palm of Haiti. O. F. COOK ____________________________ __________________ 254 Rhododendron Notes: C01l1ment. CLEMENT G. BOWERS ______________________________________________________________ 281 Rhododendron Hybrids Hardy in Vermont. MARY E. G. FREEBOR N____ 284- Rhododendron Crosses. J OS EPH G. GABLE ___________________________ ._________________ 285 Rock Garden Notes: Dwarf Tulips in Manitoba. F. L. SKINNER _____ ___ _____ ________________________________ 287 A Book or Two _______________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ____________ 288 The Gardener's Pocketbook: N otholil'ion T h0711S0 11l£anu111. CLA UDE HOPE ________ ________ ____________________________ 293 Styrax officinalis. CLAUDE H OPE ________________________________________________________________ 294 Mid-August. FRA NCES EDGE MelLv AINE ._______________________________________________ 296 Fron1 the Midwest Horticultural Society: Daphne m ezereU77'[,. ROB ERT V AN TRESS ___________________________________________ 298 Hydrangea peti-ola,n·s. ROBERT V AN TRESS ____________________________________ 298 K oell'eute7'ia -panic-ulata. ROBERT V AN TRESS _________________________________ 300 flex opaea. ROBERT V AN TRESS ________ _________________________________________________ 300 ] asm imtm nu di f l 07'U 17'/, ___________________________________ _____________________________________________ __ 302 B up hane cilia1'is _________ ___________________ ____ ________ ________ ___________________________________________ 302 A 1"is toto chia el ega.ns _____________________________ __ __________ __._ ___ __________________________________ ___ _ 304 Trito·wia hyalina ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 306 Butterfly Lilies. FRA NCE S HAN NAY __ ______ __________________________________________________ 306 The White Ladyslipper. WARREN C. WILSON _____ _____________________________ ________ 308 Oncoba Routledgei ____ __________________________________________ ___________________________________ _______ 309 Published quarterly by The American Horticultural Society. Publication offi ce. 32nd St. and ~ l m Ave., Baltimore, Md. Editorial offi ce, Room 821, Washington Loan and Tru st Building. Wash· mgton, D. C. Contributions from all members are cordially invite. d and should be sent to the Editoria.l office. A subscription to the magazine is included in the annual dues to all members: to non·members the price is seventy-five cents the copy, three dollars a. year. [ ii ] Frasher Oenothera deltoides with pink Sand Verbena California Oenothera Species LESTER ROWNTREE I WISH I had some sort of little many of the state . Large-flowered, gauge whi'ch I could apply to my field quick-spreading Oe. speciosa grows in notes and which would indicate how Kansas and Oklahoma and Texas and much by enthusiasm (or lack of en­ is an occasional escape in California, thusiasm) in the des·cri ption of a plant and its pink-flowered vari ety knowll is due to that plant's actual beauty as "Childs' Mexican P rimrose" comes and desirability and how much to the from Texas. Both of them are ram­ conditions under which the notes were pant perennials in many temperate cli­ written. The best I have been able mate gardens. Oe. bien17is is called the to do so far is to put an explanatory European Evening Primrose, because word or two at the ·end of my note,­ it has naturalized itself there so freely; "too cold to enthuse, though the plant but it went to Europe from Virginia, is really nice," I find, or-"it may be and has now returned to grow, with the coffee," which means that an unac­ many similar yell ow-flowered species customed debauch may account for my and horticultural forms, in counties !': exuberance, or merely-"getting des­ American gardens. perate" whi'ch speaks for itself. California has a large allotment of Then I always have a horrified fear native Evening Primroses, both peren­ that a wave of nostalgia, flo oding over nials and heat and drought-loving an­
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