GARDEN NOTES IN 1921 



reaching the height of general size of the dwellers 

 in the open. The indoor flower of Noble is only 

 two-thirds the size of its naturally developing 

 companion. 



Challenger, of which I had often heard, stands 

 now before me. What a glory in daffodils is this, 

 and what a sensation it must have made when 

 first show^n. The segments of its cream-white 

 petals are distinctly reflexed; its slender trumpet 

 has a length greater, I believe, than any I have 

 ever before seen in daffodils — two inches. Im- 

 agine this, if you can; with a bold frill at the low- 

 est diameter of the perianth three and a half 

 inches; and of the trumpet at the lower edge, 

 one and one-quarter inches. In proportion to its 

 length this trumpet is excessively slender — its 

 color a silvery yellow — a beautiful pale tone. 

 The stem of my flower is ten inches in height, but 

 I believe Challenger under entirely favorable con- 

 ditions grows much tafler than this. 



May 1, 1921. 



Not one of the newer shrubs, those offered to 



the American public only within the last ten or 



fifteen years, not one can be more worth buying 



for the garden large or small, than the Viburnum 



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