June 12, 1920 



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American Iris Society have gone brave- 

 ly ahead with their exhibits this sea- 

 son. Naturally they have not been able 

 to make as good a showing as they 

 would in an earlier season, but they 

 certainly have justified the existence 

 of the Society, and have done much to 

 awaken increased interest in the iris. 

 The first eastern exhibit of the Society 

 was given in connection with the Penn- 

 sylvania Horticultural Society, in the 

 Wanamaker Store. Philailelphi^i, this 

 month, and between 1,500 and 2.000 

 beautifully colored blooms were dis- 

 played. The newspapers gave consid- 

 erable attention to the exhibit, and onei 

 of them printed the following: 



"The American Iris Society is the 

 only organization of its kind in the 

 world and has been organized but 

 four months. The present membership 

 is more than 400, including Euroi)ean 

 iris growers of international reputa- 

 tion. 



"The iris is a flower species that 

 grows in all parts of the world. The 

 society encourages the planting of the 

 flower by amateur gardeners, because 

 of its hardy growth and beiiutiful 

 colors. 



"The exhibit Includes plants largely 

 from Europe, Asia Minor and Persia. 

 A few American, Siberian ami Jap- 



anese exhibits were displayed and at- 

 tracted widespread attention. 



"Officers elected by the society are: 

 President, John C. Wister, Philadel- 

 phia; vice president, William A. Peter- 

 son, Chicago: secretary, R. S. Sturte- 

 vant, Wellesley Farms, Mass.; treas- 

 urer, Frank H. Presby, Monclair, N. 

 J." 



It is most pleasing to find many in- 

 creasing evidences of the growth in 

 favor of gardening as a hobby or recre- 

 ation for women as well as for men. 

 A plan which has much to recommend 

 it has been worked out in Boston this 

 spring, the National Civic Federa- 

 tion having made arrangements by 

 which several of the most prominent 

 gardens around the city could be 

 visited by those interested on certain 

 dates. A small fee is charged in 

 each case. One of the gardens soon 

 to be \isited is that at Faulkner 

 Farm, in Brookline. the estate which 

 is carried on under the eflicient man- 

 agement of Supt. W. N. Craig. The 

 beautiful gardens in their attractive 

 setting will be adtaired. There is 

 much more to Faulkner Farm though, 

 that merely the gardens, for farming 

 operations as well as market garden- 

 ing are carried on in quite an exten- 



sive way, the work being under Mr. 

 Craig's supervision and being so exten- 

 sive that his friends often wonder how 

 he is able to do so much work, for he 

 is an indefatigable writer, much in 

 demand as a lecturer, and a most faith- 

 ful secretary of tlie Gardeners' and 

 Florists' Club of Boston. 



ARBORETUM BLOOMS. 



Rosa omeiensis has opened its flow- 

 ers this year several days before R. 

 Hugonis and R. cinnamomea which are 

 usually the first Roses to flower in the 

 Arboretum. This Chinese Rose, which 

 is common on the mountains of west- 

 ern China, gets its name from Ml. 

 Omei, one of the sacred mountains of 

 the Empire, where it is common. It 

 is a hardy, fast-growing shrub with 

 erect stems covered with bright red 

 prickles, white fragrant flowers hardly 

 more than an inch in diameter, arid 

 bright red fruit on elongated fleshy, 

 yellow stalks. On its native mountains 

 it sometimes grows to the height of 

 twenty feet. Judged by the way it has 

 grown in the Arboretum, this Rose 

 should make an excellent hedge for 

 New England gardens. 



Aesculus georgiana is covered again 

 with its compact clusters of large red 

 and yellow flowers. This southern 

 Buckeye has not been injured by the 

 severe winters of 1917-18 and 1919-20. 

 and is certainly one of the best new 

 plants which have been brought into 

 our gardens in recent years. When 

 first discovered it was believed to be 

 confined to the neighborhood of Stone 

 Mountain in central Georgia, and to be 

 always a shrub in habit, but is now 

 known to range northward in the Pied- 

 mont region to North Carolina, and 

 often to grow into a small tree. The 

 oldest plants in the Arboretum are be- 

 ginning to assume a treelike habit, and 

 in the parks at Rochester, New York. 

 Aesculus georgiana is a shapely small 

 tree with a straight well developed 

 trunk. Many other Horsechestnuts 

 an<I Buckeyes are now in flower: and 

 the large group of these trees and 

 shrubs on the right hand side of the 

 Meadow Road is just now one of the 

 most interesting and attractive in the 

 Arboretum.— A rnoW Arboretum Bulle- 

 tin. 



