November 2, 1907 



HORTICULTURE 



57S 



M. Coates, Robert Craig, William F. 

 Dreer. Charles Gl'^lions Davis. Colonel 

 James Elverison, Jr., Howard M. Earl, 

 Congressman W. W. Foulkrod, \\il- 

 liam F. Fell, Robert T. Frothingliam. 

 John E. J. Fanshawe, Howard 1?. 

 French, Henry A. Fry, William H. 

 Helsier, Samuel Y. Heetoner, James F. 

 Hope, Samuel Heilner, David Hutzler, 

 U. O. Hildebrand, W. A. Higinbotham, 

 Hor>. Albert G. Hetherlngton, John M. 

 Harper, Professor Jacob H. Hollander, 

 W. C Hiiey, Joseph DeF. Junkin, W. 

 'J. Johnson, Herbert W. Johnson, Con- 

 stant E. Jonos, Mahlon N. Kline, N. 

 B. Kelly Wiiliara A. Law, J. Bertram 

 Lippincott, Burnet D. Landreth, Sam- 

 uel D. Lit, Isaac M. Longhead, William 

 H. Maule, William L. McLean, George 

 P. Morgan, A. C. McGowin Thomas 

 Edwin Murphy, H. S. Prentiss Nichols, 

 George W. Ochs, Hon. W. W. Porter, 

 Harold Pierce, Theodore Presser, Fred. 

 Powers, Max Riebenack, District At- 

 torney Samuel P. Rotan, William T. 

 Roiph, A. Maxwell Sheppard, John F. 

 Simons, William J. Stewart, Alex. B. 

 Scott, .lohn Sailoi', John L. Stewart, 

 Walter F. Stokes, James F. Sullivan, 

 Edw. S. StroDhar, Joseph Snellenburg, 

 Willian: R. Tucker, William T. TUdeu, 

 E. A. Van Valkenburg-, Theodore Voor- 

 hees, Henry I\I. A^'arren, H. W. Wood, 

 S. F. Willard. Douglas M. Wylie, Clin- 

 ton Rogers Woodruff, Colonel Francis 

 E. Waters, Hon. Harmon Yerkes. 



A QUESTION OF NOMENCLATURE. 



THE NOMENCLATURE OF HYDRAN- 

 GEA ARBORESCENS STEUILIS. 

 (GRANDIFLORA ALBA.) 



Editor N.itional Xurser.vman: 



This iipw Hydrangea is now Ijeing cata- 

 logued by iiurserymeu. who n.Tturally re- 

 gard Bailey's Cyclopedia of American Hor- 

 ticulture as the standard of authority in 

 nomenclature. The name under which this 

 work describes the now candidate for pub- 

 lie favor is given at the head of this arti- 

 cle and is botanically correct, descriptive, 

 and was the first published. This plant has 

 since been registered with the Society of 

 Americau Florists as "H. arborescens 

 grandiflora alba." This name is descrip- 

 tive but is long and is so similar to the H. 

 paniculata grandiflora as to cause con- 

 fusion in the minds of the people as well 

 as on the packing ground. Permit me to 

 suggest that nurserymen catalogue this 

 plant according to Bailey, who is our "law- 

 giver" as to names. 



J. W. McXARY. 



Dayton, Ohio. 



Note: — How is this brother Registrar of 

 the S. A. F.? What about the rule of 

 priorit.v? — Ed. 



The above communication appeared 

 in the last number of the "National 

 Nurseryman." As it seems to sug- 

 gest some doubt as to the validity of 

 the name registered with the S. A. F. 

 by the introducers of the plant in 

 question, we w-rote to the E. G. Hill 

 Company for their views, and have 

 received the following letter, which, 

 we think, will prove interesting read- 

 ing to the trade. It affords convinc- 

 ing proof of the wisdom of being up- 

 to-date in matters of horticultural in- 

 terest, by taking advantage of exist- 

 ing mediums for publicity and by be- 

 coming identified with the only na- 

 tional body which has, so far. made 

 any serious effort to provide a means 

 for establishing iilant names. It ap- 

 pears to us that upon the publication 

 of the registered name by Mr. Hill 



those who had known the plant by 

 another name should have immedi- 

 ately informed the secretary of the 

 S. A. F., who, not being omniscient, 

 would, no doubt, have been grateful 

 (as Mr. Hill would also have been) to 

 get the information; 



Mr. Hill's Letter. 



Richmond, Ind., October 28, 1907. 

 NVni. J. Stewart, Boston, Mass. 



I>ear Sir: — The name given to the new 

 hydrangea was suggestive, we thought, of 

 its character, color of the flower, etc. We 

 did not know the hydrangea had been 

 named by Mr. Bailey in his Encyclopedia 

 uf Horticulture previous to the name Ab- 

 borescens grandiflora alba having been reg- 

 istered with the S. A. F. by our firm. Had 

 we known of this, we would not have sug- 

 gested an.v other name. The name regis- 

 tered by the S. A. F. has been adopted by 

 nearly all if not all the catalogue men 

 both in America and Europe and such be- 

 ing the case and as "Sterilis" has not 

 come into general use why not let It go 

 as registered? 



We were the first to bring this plant into 

 notice through a published description and 

 also, we believe, the first to introduce it 

 commercially, hence we were perfectly 

 riglit in appending the name given and 

 registered. This hydrangea had been grow- 

 ing under the ver.v noses of J. W. McNary 

 and E. Yj Teas for years and years yet 

 they never saw it or, if the.v did, they 

 did not gi\"e puhlicit.v to the fact. 



A word about the variety. It has been 

 found growing near Kokomo, Ind., Colum- 

 bus, Ind.. Allegheny City, Pa., Y'ellow 

 Springs, Ohio, and was widel.v distributed 

 through the Miami Valley. There are a 

 number of bushes in Dayton, Yellow 

 Springs, Urbana, Springfield and Piqua. 

 Some, or in fact most of them, are quite 

 ancient, .iudging by appearances. We know 

 of two plantsmen who were importuned to 

 propagate the variet.v with a view to its 

 distribution but failed to do so but now 

 are great admirers of this most beautiful 

 of all hardy shrubs. 

 Yours, 



E. G. HILL. 



IN TOUCH WITH THE BEAUTIFUL. 



"When God planned the universe. 

 He built a vast flower garden. Each 

 star shines with a beauty all its own. 

 One is a ruby, another an amethyst. 

 There is an opal. Off in the distance 

 is an emerald and beyond a sapphire. 

 When the Great Horticulturist drove 

 his plowshare through the field of 

 azure, He strewed the furrows with 

 stars, which are like vast bouquets in 

 the hand of the Infinite. Up there we 

 shall see as God sees, with no diminu- 

 tion in ratio as to distance, Orion of 

 the Pleiades, with broad landscapes of 

 marvellous loveliness. The distant 

 Milky Way, which lies like a snow- 

 drift far away, will roll up before us 

 into limitless fields of beauty. The 

 Southern Cross will be a floral cross, 

 and every star an immortal. Vast 

 abysses of glory flooded with the min- 

 gled effulgence which comes from 

 mj'ria'ls of suns, will lie over all that 

 immensity, and it will be beauty — 

 beauty everywhere. 



"Such being our inheritance up 

 there, would it not be a good plan to 

 get in touch with the beautiful down 

 here? Don't you know that you can 

 gather tints from these sun niantle.= 

 and from the rainbow and weave them 

 into gardens of beauty down here, and 

 brighten up this old somber world of 

 ours so it will be a prophecy of what 

 lies before? Then peering out of the 

 unseen are myriads of forms of sur- 

 passing loveliness human eye has not 

 vet seen, and there they are patiently 

 waiting for you to introduce them to 

 the world." — C. S. Harrison. 



AMERICAN POMOLOGICAL SO- 

 CIETY. 



A Letter from the Secretary. 



Mr. W. J. Stewart, 



Editor HORTICULTURE, 

 Boston, Mass. 



Dear Sir: — I observe in your recent 

 report of the meeting of the American 

 Pomological Society and allied organi- 

 zations at Jamestown, that your corre- 

 spondent informs the public that the 

 National Council of Horticulture "as- 

 signed" to the American Pomological 

 Society the dates occupied by them at 

 their recent meeting. The matter is 

 so small that it is hardly worth men- 

 tioning, but on behalf of the Pomolog- 

 ical Society I feel called upon to state 

 that this national organization first se- 

 lected the dates mentioned, namely, 

 September 24-2C, and that the other 

 horticultural societies, as the Society 

 of Horticultural Science, the National 

 Nut Growers, and the Maryland Horti- 

 cultural Society, agreed to hold their 

 respective meetings on the same week. 

 When these arrangements were made, 

 the National Council then decided to 

 hold its session the day preceding the 

 opening of the American Pomological 

 Society's convention. The American 

 Pomological Society has not thus far 

 recognized the authority of any pub- 

 licly organized, or self-constituted body 

 to "assign" a date or dates for its 

 biennial sessions. 



Yours sincerely, 



JOHN CRAIG, 



Secretary Am. Pomological Society. 

 Ithaca, N. Y. 



OHIO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



A Letter to the National Council of 

 Horticulture. 



Mr. H. C. Irish, Sec'y, 



National Council of Horticulture. 

 St. Louis, Mo. 



Dear Sir: — It occurs to me that we 

 as fruit growers are not giving suffi- 

 cient attention to the matter of keep- 

 ing the people informed as to the de- 

 sirability of making fruits an impor- 

 tant part of their daily food. In other 

 words, we need an acting bureau of 

 publicity. 



This season we do not realize iho 

 necessity of this, but if this lean sea- 

 son should be followed by one of plen- 

 ty, which will probably be the case, we 

 may find that the people who have 

 from necessity been sparing in their 

 use of fruit this season will continue 

 to use it sparingly, to the great loss 

 alike to producer and consumer. 



In working for our own selfish inter- 

 ests, in this case we are also doing a 

 great good to the public at large. 



It seems to me that your National 

 Organization should take up this mat- 

 ter and bring it before the state tO- 

 eiefies at their annual meetings this 

 winter. Yours truly, 



W. W. FARNSWORTH, 

 Secy. Ohio Hort. Society. 



Waterville, O. 



The Garden, London, sends out a 

 striking colored print of paeony Chris- 

 tine Shand with its issue of October 

 12. This is one of the anemone-flow- 

 ered forms sent out by Kelway & 

 Son. The guard petals are of delicate 

 flesh color, the centre petals being 

 lemon white. 



