The NAT ION A L HORTICULTURAL MAGAZINE JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY JANUARY, 1933 The American Horticultural Society PRESENT ROLL OF OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS MOIYch 1, 1932 OFFICERS President, Robert Pyle, West Grove, Pa. C. First Vice-President, Knowles A. ~yer~on, 1601 Argonne Pl., N. W., Washington, D. Second Vice-President, Mrs. FrancIs Kmg, South Hartford, N. Y. Secretary, C. C. Thomas, 211 Spruce Street, Tako~a Park, Md. Treasurer, Roy G. Pierce, 504 Aspen Street, Washmgton, D. C. DIRECI'ORS Terms expiring in 1933 Terms expiring in 1934 Miss Isabel B. Busbee, Raleigh, N. C. F. J. Crider, Superior, Ariz. Mrs. L. H. Fowler, Washington, D. C. Mrs. M'ortimer Fox, Peekskill, N. Y. Fairman R. Furness, Media, Pa. Mr. F. L. Mulford, Washington, D. C. D. Victor Lumsden, Washington, D. C. Mrs. Silas B. Waters, Cincinnati, Ohio. J. Marion Shull, Chevy Chase, Md. Dr. Earl B. White, Kensington, Md. ------- AFFILIATED SOCIETIES Alexandria, Virginia, Garden ~lub, Garden Club of Englewood, Mrs. F. M. Willard, PresIdent, Englewood, N. J. Belle Haven, Alexandria, Va. Garden Club of Madison, N. J. American Fuchsia Society, Mrs. Hubert Cheeseman, Sec'y, Mrs. Elizabeth Madison, Sec'y, Academy Road, Madison, N. J. 1025 2nd Ave., Oakland, Calif. Garden Club of Ohio, Ault Park Garden Club, MIis. C. S. Robinson, President, Mrs. William N. Sloan, Pres., 840 Old Furnace Road, Youngs­ 1434 Herschel Ave., Cincinnati, O. town, Ohio. Bethesda Community Garden Club, Garden Club of Peekskill, . Mrs. Prestqn C. Alexander, 118 P-ine St., Peekskill, N. Y. 502 Maple Ridge Road, Garden Club of S'Omerset Hills, Bethesda, Md. Mrs. J. M. Ellsworth, President, Blackstone Garden Club, Bernardsville, N. J. Georgia State Horticultural Society, Mrs. A. G. Ingham, President, G. H. Firor, Secretary, Wellsville, Va. Athens, Ga. California Garden Club Federation, Hartwell Garden Club, Mrs. Leonard B. Slosson, Pres., Care of Mrs. R. Lucius, 426 So. Arden Blvd., 43 Hartwell A "'e. Los Angeles, Calif. Cincinnati, Ohio. Chevy Chase (D. C.) Garden CIU!b, Indian Hill Garden Club, Mrs. F. B. Weaver, Mrs. Robert Sattler, President, 5324 39th St., N. W., Varner Road, R. F. D. No.1, Washington, D. C. Sta. M., Cincinnati, O. Chevy Chase Garden Club, Lake Forest Garden Club, Mrs. T. H. MacDonald, Lake Forest, Ill. 520 Maple Ridge Road, Lake Washington Garden Club, Battery Park, Md. Mrs. Alexander A. Gardner, Civic Study Club, 595149th Ave., S'. W., Seattle, Wash. Mrs. O. R. Bruson, Secretary, Montgomery Suburban Garden Club, Michigan, N. D. James c. Dulin, Jr., President, Fairfax Garden Club, 325 High St., Friendship Hts., Mrs. L. P. Tayloe, S'ecretary, Chevy Chase, Md. Vienna, Va. Shaker Lakes Garden Club, Fairfield Garden Club, Mrs. Frank B. Stearns, Mrs. John R. Reyiburn, 15830 S. Park Blvd., Shaker Hts., 523 Old Post Road, Fairfield, Conn. Cleveland, Ohio. Federated Garden Clubs of Cincinnati a~d St. Louis Horticultural Society, Vicinity, Missouri Botanical Garden, Mrs. Silas B. Waters, President, St. Louis, Mo. 2005 Edgecliffe Point, Cincinnati, O. Takoma Horticultural Club, Galesburg Horticultural Improvement So­ Fred C. Duehring, Secretary, ciety, 122 Chestnut Ave., C. Z. Nelson, Secretary, Takoma Park, D. C. 534 Hawkinson Ave., Galesburg, Ill. Town & Country Garden Club, Garden Club of Cfficinnati, MnsL Frederick Hinkle, Sec'y, Mrs. H. W. Nichols, Edwards Rd. and Vvalsh Place 2345 Mallison Road, E. Walnut Cincitmati, Ohio. Hi'lIs, Cincinnati, Ohio. Town and COUJl1try Club of Cleveland, Garden Club of Buzzard's Bay Mrs. W. H. Wood, Mrs. M. W. Wilcox, President, Anderson and Green Rd., S. Euclid, 350 Union St., New Bedford, Mass. Cleveland, Ohio. Publication Office, 1918 Harford Avenue, Baltimore, Md. Entered as second-class ma tter January '}fl, 1932, at the Post Office at Baltimore, Md., under tbe Act of August 24, 1912. The National Horticultural Magazine Volume Twelve Washington, D. C. 1933 COPYRIGHT, 1933 THE .'\ lIIERICAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY The National Horticultural Magazine B. Y. lvIoRRl soN, Editor ALFRED BATES, FLORENS DEBEI'OISE, SI'lERMAX R. DUFFY, HELEN ),1 . Fox, MARY G. HENRY, FRANCES E . McILI'AIXE, CARL PURD Y. J. lvIARION SHULL, ARTHUR D. SLAVIN COlllriblltilig Editors Vol. 12 Copyright, 1 9 33, by THE :\)[ERTCAN HORTICL'LTUHAL SOCIE'l.' Y No. 1 JANUARY, 1933 Acacias 111 California. By K ATHER INE D. JO NES .. A Few Uncommon Oaks. By MARY G. HENRy .... 45 Our Deoiduous Conifers II. By ARTHUR D. SLAVIN 48 A \;Vell Considered Schedule for Judging Narcissi. By FLORENCE ED NA FOOTE. 54 Lewisias in Tbeir Native H ome. By E. J. EI\'CO:llf.R .. 58 Concerning T ea. By H ELE N M. Fox 62 A Book or Two .. 65 The Gardener's P ocketbook: Clcmatis 107lin,ialla. By ]. E. SPIXGARX ... 67 Prlll'lus serntiata val'. Oh-nanden. By P AUL R USSELL ... 68 Iris DOlIglasiana 70 Allium triqlletnl7n . 72 Verbena canadensis. By I. N. A:-fDERSON ................ .. ...... 72 Correction s 74 It is one of the debatable customs of the New Y ear to a nnounce m or e or less publicly one's intended resolves for the sea son, a custom that extend.s far b eyond the confi nes of persona l boasting ! In bringing you the first issue of the year , it is safe to predict that there will be even better material for your delectatIOn than you found in the year just passed. You w ill dis,cover a lso, the first efforts to develop " m or e fu ll y the idea of a long treatment of the plants of a sing le genus w hich was foreshadowed in the calochor,tus seri es of last year. The acacia article of this issue is the finst example. In bring ing you these longer articles, it is r eali zed that it wi ll be impossibl e to offer many o ther topics in the sam e issue but t hi s does not mean that the issue of general interest will be neglected and if it IS pos,sible to expand the number of iSlsues, from four t o six in this season, it may be possible to devote the t wo extra i sues, to specia l subj ect s and keep the qu arterly as it is. Your opinions in this will b e of interest, a nd in all the undertaking of the SocIe t y, your constant interest and cooperation is invited. Publi shed quarterly by The American HorticuHural Society. Puhlirntion office, 19lil H a rford Ave., Baltimore, Md. Editorial offic e, 116 Chestnut Street, Takoma Park, D. C. 'ontributions f"om all member ar e cOl' di ally invited and should be sent to the l~ d i torial offi ce. _\d vertising Manager , Mr. J. S. E lms, P. O. Box 27, Ken ington, :M,l. A subscription to the magazine is induded in th e rlllJ1ual du C's of all 11I e mber ; to non-membe rs th e price is seye llty-fh'€, ('(l nt th e (,op ~', three dollar a year . [i] Acacias in California By KATHERINE D. JONES Acacias are plants of the open spaces, Another case of their adapta:bility is desert lands and rocky hills or under­ mentioned in the Gardener's Chronicle stories to huge eucalyptus trees in the of England regarding Acacia dec~wr e ns forests. dealbata. This species blooms in June Although acadas are fDund in about in Australia but when introduced into forty different countries of the globe the Nilgiris, India, it bloomed in Octo­ we associate them mostly with Aus­ ber for ten years then one month earlier tralia Dn account of their numerous every ten years until finally it bloomed and beautiful varieties which were in June as they originally did in their early introduced into Europe and fig­ native home. This is all very inter­ ured in colors in the horticultural esting but such has not been the ex­ magazines over a century ago and also perience on the campus of the Uni­ from the interest and persistence of versity of California, Berkeley. Here the early bDtanists, who risked their for the last thirty years they have lives in gathering herbarium specimens varied only a week or two from year in ,the traJCkless wilds Df that cDuntry. to year in their blooming period but They are fast grDwing, ,drought tol­ that variation may be backward in erant; hardy, short-lived, indifferent date as well as forward. to the kind of soil and adaptable to Acacias are supposed to have origi­ changes of climate. They can live nated on the oldest land on the con­ where the rainfall is less ,than ten tinent, which is in Western Australia, inches a year or even where it is two and to have spread from there into hundred inches, but it has taken thou­ every state in Australia. This early sands Df years with many failures and land had been a plateau 1,500 feet hard struggles to attain to' this degree high with an amazing number of adaptability. Some Df them have at­ kinds of soils and was often subject tained-not all, but like that wonder­ to severe droughts. At first the acacias ful race of men from Palestine they were all of the feathery type, with have grown in many directions hom compound leaves made up of a petiole, their~ trials and sufferings until now pinnae and various leaflets, but as the they are able to live in all parts of country gradually became dryer and Australia, in heat 01" cold, wet or dry, dryer this style of a leaf was not Dr in any kind of soil. Not all have suited to the new climate and they had the sanle experience and not all had to develop phyllodia, an entirely can adapt themselves to the sanie try­ new type of leaf, in order to live at ing conditions in which man forces all.