The NATIONAL HORTICULTURAL MAGAZINE JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OCTOBER, 1948 The American Horticultural Society PRESENT ROLL OF OFFICERS AND DIRECfORS April, 1948 OFFICERS President, Mr. H. E. Allanson, Takoma Park, Md. First Vice-President, Mr. Frederic P. Lee, Bethesda, Md. Second Vice-President, Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, Washington, D. C. Secretary, Dr. Conrad V. Link, College Park, Md. Treasurer, Mr. CarlO. Erlanson, Silver Spring, Md. Editor, Mr. B. Y. Morrison, Takoma Park, Md. DIRECTORS Terms expiring 1949 Terms expiring 1950 Mrs. Robert Fife, New York, N. Y. Mrs. Walter Douglas, Chauncey, N. Y. Mrs. Mortimer J. Fox, Peekskill, N. Y. Mrs. J. Norman Henry, Gladwyne, Pa. Dr. David V. Lumsden, Silver Spring, Md. Mrs. Arthur Hoyt Scott, Media, Pa. Dr. Vernon T. Stoutemyer, Los Angeles, Dr. Freeman Weiss, Washington, D. C. Calif. Dr. Donald Wyman, Jamaica Plain, Mass. HONORARY VICE-PRESIDENTS Sirs. Mary Hazel Drummond, Pres., Mr. Allen W. Davis, Pres., American Begonia Society, American Primrose Society, 1246 No. Kings Road, 3424 S. W. Hume St., Los Angeles 46, Calif. Portland 1, Ore. Dr . H. Harold Hume, Pres., Mr. Harold Epstein, Pres., American Camellia Society, American Rock Garden Society, University of Florida, 5 Forest Court, Gainesville, Fla. Larchmont, N. Y. Mr. Carl Grant Wilson, Pres., Mr. John H~, Jr., PTe,5.. American Delphinium Society, American Rhododeadron ~, 22150 Euclid Ave., Broolcs, Oregon Cleveland, Ohio Mr. George A. Sweetser, Pres., American Rose Society, Or. Frederick L. Fagley, Pres., 36 Forest St., American Fern Society. Wellesley Hills, Mass. 2S7 Fourth Ave., Mr. Wm. T. Marshall, Pres. Emeritus, New York to, N. Y. Cactus & Succulent Society of America. Dr. Franklin Cook, Pres., 228 Security Bldg., Phoenix, Arit... American Iris Society, Mrs. Hollis Webster, Pres., 2747 Hurd Ave., Hel1b Society of America, Evanston, III. 300 Massachusetts Ave .. :Mr. Marvin C. Karrels, Pres., Boston 15, Mass. American Peony Society, Mr. Edwin C. Freed, Pres., 3272 S. 46th St., Midwest Horticultural Society, Milwaukee 14, Wrs. R.R. 2, Downer's Grove, Ill. SOCIETIES AFFILIATED WITH THE AMERICAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 1946 Akron Guden Center, American Rose Society, Z26 South Main St., Dr. R. C. Allen, Seq., Akron. Ohio Box 687, Harrisburg, Pa. American Begonia Society, Bel-Air Garden Club, Mrs. Mary H azel Drummond, Pres., Mrs. Myron E. Etienne, Pres., 1246 No. Kings Road, 2324 Mandeville Canyon Rd., Los Angeles 46, Calif. Los Angeles 24, Calif. American Camellia Society Benson Garden Dub Box 2398 University Station % Mrs. Amelia Doll, Gainesville, Florida 6016 Binney St., Arlington County Garden Oub, Omaha, Nebr. Mr. Lewis H. Weld, Pres., 6613 N. Washington Blvd., Bonne Terre Garden Club, East Falls alUra, VL Mrs. R. L. Fowler. Pres., /\merican Fuchsia Society, Bonne Terre. Mo. Headquarters : Calif. Aa.d. of Sclences, Bristow Garden Club. Golden Gate Park, Mrs. R. L. Jones, Pres-, San Francisco, Calif. Box 660, Bristow, Okla. American Primrose Society, Cactus & Succulent Society of Am~rka, Mr. Carl Maskey, Secy., Mr. Carl F. Brassfield, Pres., 2125 5th Ave., 8060 Lankershire Blvd., Milwaukee, Ore. No. Hollywood, Calif. PubU.etlon Omce. 82nd St. and Elm Aye., Baltimore. Md. Entered a. second·c1aeB matter J.nna17 27, 1932, at the Post Office at Baltimore, Md .• nnder the Act of Aucult 24. 1912. California Garden Clubs, Inc., Hawthorne Flower & Garden Club, Mrs. Wm. D. Shearer, Pres., Mr. L. C. Zimmerman, 533 South Walton P lace, 79 12 Cermak Rd. & 48th St., Los Angeles 5, Calif. Chicago 23. Ill. California Horticultural Society, Holly Society of America, Miss Cora R. Brandt, Secretary, Mr. Clarence R. Wolf, Pres., 300 Montgomery St., Millville, N. J. San Francisco, Calif. Home Garden Club of Denver, Chestnut H ill Garden Club, Miss Lula Morse, P res., Mrs. Bryan S. Permar, Treas., 3768 Perry St., 41 Crafts Rd., Denver 12, Colo. Chestnut Hill, Mass. Howard Park Garden Cl ub, Chevy Chase (D. C.) Garden Club, Mrs. C. F. Morrison, J r., Secy., Mrs. Edward J. Mullins, Pres., 601 Chapelgate Rd., 53 15 28th St., Baltimore 29, Md. Chevy Chase, D. C. Iowa Rose Society, Ga rden Club, Chevy Chase, Md. State House, Mrs. Randolph Kauffmann, P res., Des Moines 19, Iowa 1 W. Melrose St., Kendall Garden Club, Chevy Chase, Md. Ivliss Edith rl'L Edgerton, Secy. -Treas .. Chico H orticultural Society, 8537 S. E . Gray St., 11 44 W. 3rd St. , Portland 6, Ore. Chico, Calif. Men's Garden Club of Rockford, Ill., Communi ty Garden Club of Bethesda, Mr. R. Hallett Shumway, Mrs. L. W. Pogue, P res., 11 5 So. First St., 116 Chevy Chase Drive Rockford, Ill. Chevy Chase, Md. Michigan Horticultural Society, Fauqui er & Loudon Garden Club, Mr. Earl Bailey, Exec. Sec'y, Mrs. Wm. F. Rust, P res., 220 1 E. Jefferson Ave., Leesburg, Va. Detroit 7, Mich. Federated G.c. of Cincinnati and Vicinity, Midwest Horticultural Society, Mrs. W: R. Grace, Sr., P res., 100 North Central P ark Bl vo .. 79 11 H amilton Ave., Chicago 24, Illinois Mt. H ealthy 31, Ohio. Mission Garden Club, Forest H ill s Garden Cl ub, Mrs. George Boyle, Mrs. H. Norair, Pres., 1201 Co nway, 2936 Albermarle St., N. W., Mission, Texas Washington, D. C. National Capital Dahli a Society, Garden Center of Greater Cincinnati, :Mr. George R. Hitchcock, Pres., W alnut and Central P arkway, Washington, D. C. Cincinnati 10, Ohio Northern Nut C; rowers Assn., Garde n Center of Greater Cleveland, Mr. J ohn Davidson, Pres., East Boulevard at E uclid Ave., 234 E. Second St., Cleveland 6, Ohio Xenia, Ohio Garden Center Institute of Buffalo, Omaha Botany Club. 1500 Elm wood Ave., 4937 Maple S t .~ Buffalo 7, N . Y. Omaha 4, Nebr. Garden Center, Pittsburgh Garden Center, Youngstown Public Library. Schenley Park, Youngstown 3, Ohi o P ittsburgh 13, Pa. Garden Club of Alexandria, Plainfield Garden Club, M rs. Malcolm Matheson, Jr., % Miss Harriett Hallowaw, Ferry Point, 804 Central Ave., Alexandria, Va. Plainfi eld, New Jersey Ga rden Club of Danville, Potomac Rose Society, Danvill e, Va. Mr. R. E . ScammelJ , Treas. Gar den Club of Fairfax, 2810 Bladensburg Rd., Mrs. Edward H owrey, P res., Washington, D . C. Burke, Va. Rock Garden Society of Ohio. Garden Cl ub of Virginia, Mrs. H . O. Wendal, Treas., Mrs. C. .Tames A ndrews, P res., 2811 Shaffer Ave., 929 Graydon Ave., Westwood, Cincinnati , Ohio Norfolk 7. Va. Rush Garden Club, Georgetown Garden Club, Rush, N. Y. Mrs. R. H. A. Carter, San F rancisco Branch, ., 323 1 Reservoir Rd., N. W., Americ.an Begonia Society, ' i\Tash ington, D. C. 2390 18th Ave., Greeley Garden Club, San Francisco 16, Cali f. Mr. .T. E. Looney. Sac ramento Garden Center, Ch. of Horticulture, 3301 H Street, Greeley, Colo. acramento, Calif. (Contilllled Oll illside bach co'<'el') The National Horticultural Magazine VOL. 27 Copyright, 1948, by T lnl AMER>IOAN HORIl'IOULTVR'AL SOmETY No.4 OCTOBER,1948 CONTENTS Developing New Chrysanthemums. E. J. KRAUS _____ _________________________________________ ISS X Iris aureonympha, Golden Nymph. EDITH HARDIN ENGLISH _____________ , ____ 161 More About African Violets. B. Y. MQRRISON _________ _____ ___________ _____ _. ________________ 168 A Book or Two __________ _____ __ _____ ________________ ___ _______ ___ __ _____ ________________ __ ____________ __ __________ 182 The Gardener's Pocketbook: Cornus stolonifera fiavira114ea. ELDRED GREEN __________________________________________ 18S Rose A cacia. ELDRED GREEN _______ ______________________________ _______ __ .. _______________________ 18S Striping in Azaleas. B. Y. M. _______________ __ __________________ ____________________________ ______ 186 Index ---- - ---------- ------- -------------- - -- - --------------------- - - - --- ------ ----- ------ ....,- - -- - - - - ----------- - ---- - ---- - --- 188 Publisbed quarterly by Tbe American Horticultural Society. Publication office, 32nd St. a nd Elm Ave .. Baltimore. ~Id. Editorial offi ce. Room 821, Washington Loan and Trust Building. Washington. D. C. Contributions from ail memhers are cordiall v in,ited and should be sent to the Editorial offite. A subscription to the magazi ne is included in the- annual oues to all me,mbers; to non-members the price is seventy-five cents a copy. three dollars a yea!. ii R obert L. Taylor Af!'ican Violet, T1'ilby Developing New Chrysanthemums E. J. K RAUS In spite of the excellence of mallY warm spell in late winter. T he posses­ recent introductions of chrysanthe­ sion of these characteristics, however, mums, there still remains the need fo r does not absolutely insure winter har­ types that blo0111 ahead of severe frosts, diness. but that will continue in bloom over a T he record of the experiences of long period of time, for such types that those who have been working for more are sufficiently petal hardy whose fl ow-· than a century on the problem of win­ ers and opening buds are not greatly ter hardiness in various plants still injured or discolored by frosts, or even leaves do ubt as to what characteristics light freezes. Par ticularly desirable are do insure winter hardiness. My own the early fl owering varieties that will experience shows clearly that seasonal resist the low temperatures of northern conditions vary so widely between dif­ winters and survive the freezes ancl fe rent localities or even within any sin­ thaws of late winter and early spnng gle locality that the hardiness of a giv­ when the groUL1d is bare of snow, en clone can be determined only aft er muJ.c h, or other cover. a number of years of test ing in various The development of winter hardy regions