May 1, 1915 



H K T I C U L T U E E 



589 



MODEL OF A SUBURBAN ESTATE. 



The accompanying illustration is a 

 memento of what was one of the prime 

 attractions for the puhlic among the 

 exhibits at the recent exhibition in tiic 

 Grand Centrfil Palace, New York. The 

 picture, however, does not give a very 



adequate idea of this excellent piece structed by Sam Woodrow, of Wood- 



of work, which took many days of 

 patient work to perfect. Most of the 

 miniature gardens which we have seen 

 were caricatures of the kindergarten 

 order, but this one, which was con- 



row & Marketos, impressed us as 

 n:uch better than the average in con- 

 ception and material, and well en- 

 titled to the gold medal which was 

 awarded to it. 



NOTED AT DREER'S 



Phlox Arendsi. 

 Among the Drear offerings tliis sea- 

 son in meritorious new plants, one of 

 the most noteworthy subjects is the 

 Phlox Arendsi. This is one of the 

 freest flowering of the family, con- 

 tinuing a mass of bloom for two 

 months. It is a cross between cana- 

 densis and decussata and commences 

 flowering about the end of May, much 

 earlier than the decussata, and much 

 more prolific in bloom than that popu- 

 lar favorite. It is perfectly hardy and 

 very vigorous in growth and of free 

 branching habit. 



in the pages of Hokticulture. It has 

 become one of the most popular of 

 our summer flowering shrubs and with 

 fairly liberal treatment responds with 

 wonderful freedom in size and quan- 

 tity of spikes. Michell has a fine col- 

 ored plate of this on front of their 1915 

 catalogue. Last summer it was one of 

 the features at Andalusia and also at 

 the Dreer Nurseries at Riverton. 



Dropmore Alkanet. 



This is an improved variety of the 

 Anchusa Italica, originating in Eng- 

 land. It is of a rich gentian lilue and 

 is one of the finest additions to our 

 limited list of rich blue hardy peren- 

 nials. It has an additional value as 

 it flowers from May to July when 

 blues are but sparingly represented in 

 the hardy garden. A Ijeautiful colore 1 

 plate of this and another variety 

 (Opal) appeared in Dreer's Garden 

 Book for 1914. Opal is much lighter 

 in color than tlie Dropmore variety. 



A New Climber. 



If you look up the dictionary you 

 will find a lot in it about the Poly- 

 gonum family. The clan has a great 

 variety of big and little in its embrace, 

 all the way from weeds to wonders. It 

 has the knotweed, the ladies' thumb, 

 the princes' feather, and many other 

 well-known subjects — as well as our 

 old friend Sakaline, which Mr. Blanc 

 made such a stir with some twenty 

 years ago. But you won't find in the 

 dictionary a new one offered by Dreer 

 recently, named: — Polygonum Au- 

 berti. This is a splendid climber pro- 

 ducing masses of white flowers in 

 great profusion during late summer 

 and fall. 



Summer Lilac. 

 The above caption ' seems to be a 

 much more descriptive and appropri- 

 ate name than Butterfly Bush which 

 we notice is being used in a good many 

 of the catalogues. We refer, of course, 

 to the Buddleia Veitchii which has fig- 

 ured more than once in recent years 



COVER ILLUSTRATION. 



To the man wlio knows, the picture 

 which appears as our cover illustra- 

 tion this week will be a thing of ex- 

 ceptional beauty and needs no descrip- 

 tion otlier than it furnishes in itself, 

 except that the variety of mignonette 

 grown is "Farquhar's Universal. " The 

 photograph was taken during the past 

 winter in the greenhouses of R. E. 

 Wadsworth & Co., Northboro. Mass. 

 The right strain of seed and intelli- 

 gent painstaking culture are the se- 

 cret of success in this instance 



EFFECTS OF THE WINTER IN THE 

 ARBORETUM. 



The long and unusual drought of the 

 autumn of 1914 thoroughly ripened 

 the wood of the young branches of 

 deciduous-leaved trees and shrubs, and 

 those plants which produce their flow- 

 ers on the branches of the previous 

 year promise an unusual crop of flow- 

 ers. The winter has not been a severe 

 one and there are no losses to report 

 among deciduous-leaved plants, which 

 suffered so severely here during the 

 winter of 1913-14. The dry autumn 

 followed by the unusual drought of 

 March has injured, however, many 

 broad - leaved evergreens, especially 

 Rhododendrons, which have never be- 

 fore suffered so severely in the Arbore- 

 tum, large plants of the hardiest vari- 

 eties, which have been growing here 

 for at least twenty-five years, having 

 been killed. The Rhododendron col- 

 lection is in an exceptionally sheltered 

 and favorable position, and is planted 

 in soil perfectly suited to these plants. 

 They have never suffered from the 

 greater cold of other winters, and the 

 condition of the collection at this time 

 shows that what injures Rhododen- 

 drons is want of moisture during the 

 summer and autumn rather than ex- 

 cessive cold, and that only a small 

 number of species and varieties can 

 be successfully cultivated in New Eng- 

 land. The list of the varieties which 

 have been killed or seriously injured 

 will ajipear in a later bulletin. 



—Arnold Arboretum Bulletin. 



Bayside, N. V. — The 200-acre estate 

 known as The Oaks, formerly the prop- 

 erty of the late John H. Taylor, on 

 which is a large range of greenhouses, 

 has been leased to the Vitagraph Com- 

 pany for the production of pictures 

 and special feature films. 



