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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



April, 19 11 



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This Portfolio, "Color Schemes for Exterior House Painting," 

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"Your Home and 

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Jackson T. Dawson, Second 

 White Medalist 



THE Massachusetts Horticultural Society has 

 awarded the George Robert White Medal 

 of Honor to Mr. Jackson Thornton Dawson of 

 the Arnold Arboretum. The Director of the 

 Arboretum thinks that no man in his time and 

 probably no man in any time has raised so many 

 plants belonging to so many different species of 

 trees and shrubs as has Mr. Dawson. 



The Arboretum is a sort of joint product of the 

 planning of Professor Charles Sprague Sargent 

 and the doing of Mr. Dawson, the one the direc- 

 tor and the other the agent in the field. After 

 twenty-five years of labor they are now looking 

 ahead to the realization of their vision that the 

 Arboretum shall contain all the trees and shrubs 

 of all the countries of the world that will grow in 

 the climate of eastern Massachusetts. 



Mr. Dawson by intuition seems to know what are 

 the affinities of a plant. Apparently he guesses 

 what to graft a plant upon or how to propagate it, 

 and he seems to guess right always. He was the 

 first man to raise the so-called hybrid rambler roses 



by crossing the garden rose with the Japanese Rosa 

 multiflora. Two of the most beautiful hardy roses 

 ever raised in America he produced — the Wil- 

 liam C. Egan rose and the Sargent rose. He 

 has also developed many other roses, among 

 which are Lady Duncan and Farquhar. Several 

 medals have been bestowed upon him in the last 

 twenty-five years in recognition of his achieve- 

 ments in this line. 



When but eight years old Mr. Dawson began 

 his career in the nurseries of his uncle at Ando- 

 ver, Massachusetts. His first medal came when 

 he made known to the world the Scottish heather 

 which had been growing wild in Massachusetts. 

 When Professor Sargent became director of the 

 Botanical Gardens of Cambridge, Mr. Dawson 

 supplied him with plants in exchange, sometimes 

 exchanging as many as 25,000 a year with differ- 

 ent institutions. 



Nearly all the trees and shrubs in the Arboretum 

 were raised from seed by Mr. Dawson. In one 

 year he collected 50,000 native shrubs. Seeds have 

 been sent in quantities from Asia and from dis- 

 tant parts of the United States and from Europe, 

 and he has handled the spoils of various expedi- 

 tions which the Arboretum has sent into almost un- 

 known parts of the world. He showed the Massa- 

 chusetts nurserymen how to graft conifers; he was 

 the first to grow rhododendrons from seed in an 

 improved manner. Hard-wooded plants have also 

 succumbed to his skill in grafting. 



This is the second award of the medal, the first 

 presentation having been made to Professor Sargent. 



Massachusetts. F. L. Bullard. 



