The Garden Magazine, July, 1922 



327 



As the plant grows more or less continuously it should not 

 be subjected to great changes of heat, water, light, or other 

 •conditions. — Ed. 



Achimenes May Be Had 



To the Editors of The Garden Magazine: 



IN THE May number, page 204, ("Where the Iron Fetters 

 of Quarantine Are Felt,") I notice an inquiry for Achi- 

 menes. I grow Achimenes in four named varieties and can 

 possibly supply Mr. Tanner, if he is still in want of this 

 flower. 1 grow large numbers and still have a few dormant 

 bulbs that 1 shall not use. The Garden Magazine is 

 fine; the Open Column especially interesting. — Mrs. I. 

 L. Teague, Fayette, Miss. 



— Many letters have been received citing offerings of 

 Achimenes in several dealers' catalogues this season ; often 

 a diligent search will uncover supplies. — Ed. 



Says One Neighbor to Another 



To the Editors of The Garden Magazine: 



ONE of your readers was so kind as to write me about 

 the "old-fashioned Clove Pink" which grows in her 

 garden, offering the further very helpful suggestion that 

 information about Pinks can probably be had from Horace 

 Whiteman, Parkesburg, Pa., or Maurice Brinton, Chris- 

 tiana, Pa., "because they grow the genuine old-fashioned 

 flowers for an old-fashioned market in an old-fashioned 

 community." I gladly pass on this interesting bit of in- 

 formation to other gardeners who love the oldentime things. 

 If this is an example of the interest and helpfulness of 

 an enlarged "Garden Neighbors'" department, it must 

 be counted a success unanimously! — R. F. Howard, South 

 Lincoln, Mass. 



Some Identities and -Whereabouts 



To the Editors o/The Garden Magazine: 

 TN REPLY to A. Dwight, New York City, inquiring for 

 ■* the identification of a very dwarf miniature white Platy- 

 codon with roundish leaves, I suggest Nierembergia 

 rivularis. There is no pink variety. There is a blue 

 Campanula carpatica which nearly resembles it, though 

 the leaves of this are heart-shaped. Nierembergia is one 

 of the dug-overs. It doesn't show up in the spring till 

 the first part of May, taking its time along with Plumbago 

 Lapentae (Ceratostigma plumbaginoides) and the dilatory 

 Eupatorium coelestinum. Annually I distribute large 

 quantities of this excellent plant, but the recipients as 

 regularly report that it has winter killed. I have had it 

 come up in July; that was after the cold winter of 1917-18. 

 I confess 1 dug some of it over that summer myself. 



Justicia New Dwarf can be obtained from J. L. Childs, 

 Floral Park. Also Achimenes Heavenly Blue. Lithos- 

 permum prostratum, widely as it is advertised, does not 

 materialize upon being ordered. I have tried for years both seeds 

 and plants. Seeds do not germinate. 1 have this year planted seed 

 from Thompson & Morgan, England. 



R. F. Howard should have little difficulty in obtaining Muscari 

 botryoides from some Garden Magazine reader. Other species are 

 possibly extinct in this land of the free. I should like one specimen bulb 

 of the feathered Muscari monstrosa or plumosa. 



A small patch of Puschkinias have seeded themselves in my garden. 

 A myriad progeny are making a grass-like first growth. I mention 

 this to whom it may concern. 



I do not altogether join with the critics of Quarantine 37. Shut out 

 as we are from much that makes gardening worth while, that is from 

 the interesting things like Scilla species, Helleborus, Eranthis, Fritillaria 

 (to observe the names on the page before me), nevertheless we are 

 thrown back upon certain primary sources. For example I regard it as 

 absurd that I should be obliged to import seeds of American wild 

 flowers from Correvon in Switzerland, but such is the fact. The 

 quarantine ought to give American growers a chance to establish them- 

 selves in what should be their own domain. It has at any rate dis- 

 covered a demand for the interesting plants, apart from the demand for 

 the showy things whose value is entirely objective. 



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A THIRTY-FOOT HOLLY AT MT. VERNON (MD.) 



A fine specimen of native Holly (Ilexopaca) still standing near the home of our first President. 

 No wonder that the Garden Clubs of Maryland and Virginia feel moved to protect this beau- 

 tiful native from the ruthless depredations of commercialism and to translate the Christmas 

 cry for Holly into the saner cry for preservation and propagation 



My only quarrel with Quarantine 37 is that it discriminates against 

 the subjective garden in favor of the objective, and that its prejudices 

 are essentially vulgar and tend to perpetuate vulgar standards of 

 American horticulture. — Julian Hinckley, Cedarhurst, N. Y. 



Mountain Plants Found at the Seaside 



To the Editors of The Garden Magazine: 



DR. D. T. MACDOUGAL'S experiments in moving plants from 

 the mountains of the West to the Pacific Coast (February 

 Garden Magazine, page 305-307) calls to mind some interesting 

 things I have noticed in my travels. In Maine, New Brunswick, 

 and Nova Scotia, many of the mountain plants are also to be 

 found at the seashore. Whether they had travelled down from the 

 mountains or up from the seashore appears doubtful, as the same plants 

 found on the seashore are not found again until we get well up in the 

 higher regions — few in the intervening territory. Is it not possible 

 that an adjacent country in Canada was once mountainous and the 

 coast-line then far out at sea? 



I found the following plants both on the mountains and at the sea- 

 shore; Potentilla tridentata; Coptis trifoliata; Vaccinium oxycoccus: 



