The NATION AL HORTICULTURAL MAGAZINE JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY JANUARY, 1937 The American Horticultural Society PRESENT ROLL OF OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS A pril 12, 1936 OFFICERS President. First Vice-President, Mr. B. Y. Morrison, Washington, D. C. Second Vice-P1'esident, Mrs. Fairfax Harrison, Belvoir, Fauquier Co., Va. Secretary, Mrs. Eugene Ferry Smith, Bethesda, Md. Treasurer, F . J. Hopkins, Washington, D. C. DIRECTORS Terms Expiring in 1937 Terms Expiring in 1938 Mrs. Mortimer Fox, Peekskill, N. Y. Mr. F. Lammot Belin, Washington, Mr. F. J. Hopkins, Washington, D. C. D.C. Armistead Peter, IV, Washington, Mrs. Floyd Harris, Aldie, Va. D. C. Mrs. J. Norman Henry, Gladwyne, Mrs. Charles Walcott, Washington, Pa. D.C. Mrs. Clement S. Houghton, Chestnut Mrs. Silas B. Waters, Cincinnati, Hill, Mass. Ohio. Mrs. Arthur Hoyt Scott, Media, Pa. THE NATIONAL HORTICULTURAL MAGAZINE Published by and for the Society B. Y. MORRISON, Editor CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Mr. Alfred Bates Mr. Sherman D. Duffy Mr. Carl Purdy Dr. Clement G. Bowers Mrs. Mortimer J. Fox Mr. C. A. Reed Mrs. C. 1. DeBevoise Mrs. J. Norman Henry Mr. J. Marion Shull Dr. W. C. Deming Mrs. Francis King Mr. Arthur D. Slavin Miss Frances Edge McIlvaine SOCIETIES AFFILIATED WITH THE AMERICAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 1937 Alexandria, Vkginia, Garden Qub, ~ethesda Community Garden Club, Mrs. Charles Holden, , Mrs. B. T . Elmore, Rosemont, 103 Locust St., Alexandr,ia, Va. ~ Bethesda, Md. American Amaryllis Society, cklifornia Garden Qub Federation, Wyndham Hayward, Secretary, Miss E. Marlow, Ub., Winter Park, Fla. ' 992 S. Oakland, Pasadena, Calif. American Begonia Society. C. M. Kelly. Secretary, Chestnut HilI Garden Qub. 5722 Lewis Ave., George Baldwin, Lib., Long Beach"C;4.it. Heath St., Chestnut Hill, Mass. American Fuchsia Society, Miss Alice Eastwood. Secretary, Chevy Chase (D. C.) Garden Qub. Cal'ifornia Academy of Sciences, Mrs. B. C. Kennedy. Golden Gate Park, 5605 Olevy Chase P'kway, San Francisco, Calif. Ohevy Chase, ' D. C. Publication Office, 32nd St. snd Elm Ave., Bsltimore, Md. Entered S8 second·clsss matter January 27, 1932, at the Post Office at Baltimore, Md., under the Act of Augu-st 24, 1912. Q,evy Chase (Md.) Garden Club, Rock Garden Society of Ohi o, Mrs. Richard F. Jackison, Pres., Mrs. F rank Garry, 3 Oxford St., 5800 Wyatt A-ve., Chevy O,ase, Md. Kennedy Heights, Cincinnati, Ohio. CleveJ.and Garden Center, St. George's Garden Club, East Boulevard at Euclid Ave., Baltimore, Md. Cleveland, Ohi-o. Takoma Horticultural Club, Dayton Ga-rden Center, Takoma Park, D. C. Dayton Art Institute, % The Columbus Garden Center, Dayton, Oih:io. The Columbus Gall ery of Fine Art s, Fauquier and Loudoun Garden Club, 480 E. Broad St., Mrs. John T. Cochran, Columbus, Ohio. The Plains, Va. The Federated Garden Cl ub of Cincinnati and Vicinity, The Garden Club of Darien, Mrs. Bart H. Hawley, Darien Free Library, 242 Greendale A venue, Darien, Conn. Cincinnati, Ohio. Garden Center Institute of Buffalo, The Lima Garden Club, Sta. H. Box B. 402 S. Woodlawn Avenue, Buffalo, New York. Lima, Ohio. Garden Club of Kentucky, The Little Gate Garden Club, Mrs. T. F. Roemele. Greensboro Public Library, 32 14 Wren Road, Greensboro, N. C. Louisville, Ky. The Little Garden Club of Sandy Spring, Mrs. Wm. Hough, Garden Club of Ohio. Sandy Spring, Md. Mrs. Frank B. S t earns, 15830 S. Park Blvd., The Rose Tree Gardeners, Cleveland, Ohio. Mrs. Samuel Howe, Clemmonton P .O., Georgetown Garden Club, Pine Valley, N . J. Mrs. S. P. Thompson, Thursdav Garden Club, 3247 R St., N. W ., jVIiss Lucie Lucas, Sec'y, Washington, D. C. 333 E . Main St., Spartanburg, S. C. Glendale Garden Crafters, Mrs. Ford Monroe, The San Francisco Garden Cl ub, Glendale, Ohio. Room 133, Fairmont H otel, San Francisco, Calif. Lake Washington Garden Club, Town and Country Garden Club, Mrs. J . M. Blackford, M rs. Silas B. Waters, 3048 E. Laurelhurst, 2005 Edgecliff Point, Seattle, , V ash. Cincinnati, Ohio. Magnolia Circle, Tow n and Country Garden Club of 950 Bay St., N. E .. Cleveland, St. P etersburg, Fla. Mrs. W. H. Wood, Anderson and Green Road, Newtonville Garden Club, S. Euclid, Cleveland, Ohio. 70 Washington Park, Newtonvill e, Mass. Trowel Club, Mrs. Theodore Joslin, Pres., Jo rth Carolina Garden Clu b, 4934 Indian Lane, Miss C. S. Black, Washington, D. C. Wake F or est, N. C. 'Washington Garden Club, Mrs. F rederi ck H. T aylor, Northern N ut Growers Association, 817 Prince St. , Dr. G. A. Zimmerman, President, Alexandria, Va. 32 S. 13th St., Woodridge Garden Club, Harrisb urg, Pa. Woodridge Branch Library, Ohio Association of Garden Clubs, Washington, D. C. Mrs. S il as B. , Vaters, , V orcester Coun ty Horticultural Society, 2005 Edgecliff Point, 30 Elm Street, Cincinna ti, Ohio. Worcester, Mass. ! i) The National Horticultural Magazine Vol. 16 Oopyright, 1937, by THE A>fElIHCAN HORII'I C'UJA'UR.AL SO OIET'Y No. 1 JANUARY, 1937 CONTEN TS Thirty More Climbers fo r Cali fornia. KATHERINE D. JONES _________________________ _ V erOI1 icas . AG NES C. D ARRO 'vV _. __ _. _______________ . _______________________________________________________ . 59 Amorphophallus Rivieri, \ i\T YNDHA ~I HA YW ARD _________________________________________________ 64 P lant Hunting in O ld Mexico, III. ERIC VVALTHER.. ___________________________________ . 68 A Book or Two ________________________________________________ ____ ________ ___ _________ __ ___________________.. ________ __ 77 The Gardener's Pocketbook: Rosa da1'l1ascella , HELEN Fox _______________________________________________________________________ 80 Ikt· v erticillata 82 LV eri11.C ~l11du, lata 82 84 C3' ti sus Stt pi11 t f s _______ ._______________ . __________ .. _____ . _____________________ . ___ .____________________________ 84 The Ga r de 11 D i cti onary ______________________ . _______________________ . _____________________ _________ . __.. 86 Publi sh ed quarterly by The American Horticultura.l Society. Publica tion office, 32ncl St. and Elm Ave., Baltimore, Md . E d itorial office, Room 821. Washington Loan and Trust Building, Wash­ mgton, D. O. Oontributions from aU m embers are cordiallY invited and ' should be sent to th e Editorial office. A subscription to the magazine i ~ in cluded in the annual du es to all membet·s; to non-m embers the pri ce is seventy-five cents the copy, three dollars a yent'. [iiJ The National Horticllitural Magazine Volume Sixteen Washington, D. C. 1937 Copyright American Horticultural Society. 1937 Lilian A. (;1lernsey [See page 82 ] N e1'ine u.ndu.lata Thirty More Climbers for California KATHERINE D. J ONES IN the January, 1936, issue, we pre­ begonia fa me. T hese, too, called fo r sented a series of vines t hat are useful the use of vines. in Cali fo rnia, and in this issue a second A t the time of the Exposition in seri es. Even these two do not exhaust 1915-1 916, a great impetus to the work the possibilities. I n that articl e it was of planting came about not only from suggested that Santa Barbara and San the Exposition plantings but from the Diego were the two great centers for development of new homes and apart­ the growing of vines, particularly those ments, each with their own planting that approach the limits of hardiness. problems. In the discussion that followed, t he use The most interesting developments of vi nes in and about Santa Barbara came on the .b uildi ng si·tes in the vari­ was taken as a basis fo r the descri ptions ous canyons where vi nes co ntribute with comparati ve notes from other parts greatly to beautiful walls and pergolas of the State. that so often form features of these de­ In this issue we shall similarly use velopments, often with vines used fo r San Diego as our base and discuss vari­ ground covers as well as to trail over ous additional species. once more wi,th walls or to clamber up them and over comparative reports frolJ.1 other parts trell is and pergola. Such necessities of the State, outlining the changes in have brought about a keener interest in vine planting during the last twenty variety of planting vin es than CD uld years, and offeri ng some brief comment {Come elsewhere. on the development of a local style. T here has also come about a wider Located at the southern extremi ty of knowledge of the treatme'nt of the vines our coastline with a moderate tempera­ themselves whi ch are not left t o climb at ture range and deli ghtful sunshine, the will but are pruned and kept within local architecture early developed a pre­ bounds but natural and architectural. ponderance of low white houses with This fits in well with the greater variety flat roofs and meager planting, the lat­ of vin es chosen which now show a far t er usually the result of the shallow soil greater range of color in their fl owering in many parts of the town. Vines such than once and a more studied relation­ as t he Austra lian Pea V ine (Dolichos ship to the color of the houses that are lignosus), German Ivy (Senecio mika.­ no longer limited either in color or noides) , and the aggressive I P0111 10 ea, style to the earlier white. tttberculata were coml1l on. Lat er M iss Sessions devised the scheme of build­ Bauhinias, Mountain Ebony; O rchid ing up the soil depths artificially so Flower that other climbers and shrubs and The species that have already been herbs could be adde d to the pla nting. introduced into California are very As an aid to the growi ng of more ornamenrtal and the supply seems al­ herbaceous plants lath houses were in­ most unlimited, since Index K ewen­ troduced chi efl y by M r.