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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
ERNEST H. WILSON, V. M. H. 
Assistant to the Director, Arnold Arboretum, Boston 
May, 1915 
“Chinese 
Wilson” 
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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
T HE EDITORS naturally feel particularly gratified in being able 
to inform the readers that arrangements have been concluded 
by which Mr. E. H. Wilson, Assistant to the Director of the 
Arnold Arboretum, Boston, will contribute a series of articles to The 
Garden Magazine, beginning with next month’s number. 
If The name of Ernest H. Wilson is indelibly fixed in both American and 
European horticulture. He has just returned from an extended visit 
to Japan, where he went in the interests of the Arnold Arboretum to see 
what that country yet contained which might be of interest to American 
gardens. His former travels into Western China, covering a period of 
fourteen years, have resulted in the introductions of a remarkable 
host of trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants, many of which are most 
peculiarly adapted to the conditions of this continent. 
Tf Mr. Wilson is more than a plant collector; he is a practical horti- 
culturist who received his initial training in Kew Gardens and first of all 
traveled into the interior of China in the interests of a well known English 
nursery. He has sent into this country more different and distinct trees 
and shrubs than were formerly found native in the cool temperate parts 
of Eastern North America. He has introduced into cultivation more 
new plants than any other plant hunter who ever won out in the quest 
for new things, all of which can be seen growing in the Arnold Arboretum. 
1 It is interesting to know that ornamental horticulture in America 
draws most of its most striking material from Western China and other 
parts of Asia because of the climatic similarities of the two regions, 
f Mr. Wilson is eminently fitted to present to the American public 
the latent possibilities that are yet undeveloped, even unsuspected, and 
he has selected The Garden Magazine as the fitting medium to put 
before the general public the conclusions that he has reached as a 
result of his wide travels and knowledge of plants and gardening condi- 
tions. The articles to be contributed in this series will appear con- 
tinuously, month by month, for the next year and will undoubtedly 
put before our readers much material that has never yet been placed 
before the gardening public in accessible or readable form. 
H Chinese plants are of untold interest to our readers. Imagine, if you 
can, what would happen if all such well known things as hydrangea, 
spirea, golden bell, the chrysanthemum, tree peonies, Thunberg’s bar- 
berry, the w isteria, Boston ivy, all of which are Chinese, were eliminated 
from our gardens. To mention two of the novelties that have already 
made Mr. Wilson’s fame permanent — the buddleias and the Regal lily. 
If As a result of his recent visit to Japan, Mr. Wilson has successfully 
introduced nearly 100 flowering cherries, the beauty of which has long 
been one of the traditions of Japan. 
Mr. Wilson’s First Article, to Appear in the June Garden Magazine, is entitled 
“The Story of the Modem Rose” 
Every one of these articles will be adequately illustrated by photographs taken by the author in his travels. 
OTHER ARTICLES OF SPECIAL INTEREST PLANNED FOR THE JUNE NUMBER HULL DEAL H'lTH 
IRRIGATION IN THE GARDEN 
The problems of water supply and keeping the crops growing, with 
discussions of the appliances to use. 
DECORATIVE GARDEN ACCESSORIES 
The proper selection and use of bird baths, arches, seats, trellises, 
etc., in the garden scheme. 
CHOICELY GOOD SUMMER APPLES 
Superb home varieties are being lost by the "commercial” attitude 
which the garden must save for us. 
PERMANENT EDGINGS TO WALKS AND BEDS 
Materials that will help by keeping the grounds neat and clean at 
a minimum expenditure of labor, etc. 
These articles will be of special interest to your gardening friends. 
Please tell them about THE GARDEN MAGAZINE, or better still send them a trial subscription— 8 MONTHS FOR $1.00 
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