AMONG OUR GARDEN NEIGHBORS 
F.VF'R Y GAR DFN MCAfATS HOMS 
FLORAL PHOTO COMPETITION 
Something over two hundred entries were submitted in the 
competition for “attractive arrangements displaying genuine 
harmony of flower and vase.” The closing date was May 
ist and announcement of the prizewinners and reproductions 
of their photographs will be a feature of the August issue. 
“GAYETY FOR AMERICAN GARDENS” 
rent and inexhaustible vitality ever found more beautiful ex¬ 
pression than in “Joy of the Waters,” “ Ecstasy,” and the 
other figures that come so swiftly and so fully alive under the 
hands of Harriet Frishmuth? The roll of lyric sculptors is one 
of lustred names—Janet Scudder, Henry Hering, Edward 
McCartan, Malvina Hoffman, Brenda Putnam and a score of 
others are steadily creating beauty for our gardens; and some¬ 
times a dial, fountain or figure, well-placed and in scale with its 
setting, lifts even the very small garden from commonplaceness 
to distinction. 
N OT every artist is gifted with the happy hand for 
designing garden forms. It is a temperamental 
matter; generally the note should be that of joy, 
or at least of serenity. Mr. MacMonnies’s Bac¬ 
chante fong ago set the perfect pace of gayety for 
American gardens.”* 
The truth of this statement is strikingly illustrated by the 
great assemblage of representative American sculpture now 
clustered about the doorstep of the Hispanic Museum (New 
York City) and gathered under its roof and that of its sister 
buildings—a very impressive assemblage indeed, fittingly set 
against Pines and other greenery (arranged for the occasion by 
Vitale, Brinckerhoff and Geiflfert, landscape architects). Dur¬ 
ing the summer months the public thus enjoys unprecedented 
opportunity to become familiar with the work of more than 
two hundred artists, many of whom have at one time or another 
found creative expression in some form of garden sculpture. 
Roughly, garden sculpture divides itself into two groups—that 
of the heroic, large scale, or memorial mould as Lorado Taft’s 
“ Fountain of Time” with its feel of giant, sweeping waves; and 
the morceaux intimes, the small, gay, friendly fancies that find 
themselves at home in people’s gardens. It is with these last 
that we just now as gardeners concern ourselves, though as 
citizens we cannot fail to appreciate the worth and beauty 
•of the more monumental examples of the sculptor’s art that 
dignify our parks and city squares, leading the wayfarer’s ima¬ 
gination into loftier spheres of thought. 
The light or lyric mood of sculpture, the true garden mood— 
naturally enough, maybe you will say—seems oftenest to find 
expression at the hands of women, although such flights as 
Emilio Angela’s vivacious “Goose Boy,” Polasek’s amusedly 
malicious “ Pan,” and the beautiful undulation of Chester 
Beach’s “Glint of the Sea” sufficiently prove that such response 
is a matter of temperment and not of sex. 
One of these days we hope to give our readers an opportunity 
to know more in detail the work of the outstanding garden 
sculptors; just now, however, we can only be grateful for the 
gayety of spirit they bring—was greater glee ever breathed 
into marble and bronze than radiates from Edith Barretto Par¬ 
sons’s plump and happy “ Duck Babies,” or has nature’s recur- 
*Page 163 “The Spirit of American Sculpture” by Adeline Adams, written 
for the National Sculpture Society. 
DISCARDED IRISES 
W HEN the American Iris Society published its Symposium 
in the spring of 1922 it promised to recommend a list of 
varieties fordiscard. Accordinglya list of more than200varieties 
was drawn up and presented to the Executive Committee and 
the jurors. It was felt that, while it would be desirable for all 
the varieties mentioned to be discarded, it was too many to 
recommend at once, and accordingly a list of about 40 varieties 
was selected “to be recommended for immediate discard by all 
gardeners and nurserymen.” This list was resubmitted to the 
Executive Committee and Symposium Jury, and the 37 Tall 
Bearded varieties listed below, it is announced, are unanimously 
recommended for discard by them: 
Abdul-Aziz 
Abu-Hassan 
Ada 
Adonis 
Amabilis (Laura, Gen. de 
Witte, Johan de Witte, 
Johan de Worth, Juliette, 
Mrs. Charles Wheeler) 
Astarte 
Beaconsfield 
Beauty 
Beethoven (Sambucina Beet¬ 
hoven) 
Bismarck 
Boccage (Africain) (Garibaldi, 
Kitty Kingsbury) 
Charles Dickens 
(Oroya.Orova) 
Chereau (Cherion, 
Cherlon) (Not Mme. Cher¬ 
eau) 
Conqueror 
Dona Maria (Edith Cook, 
Edith, Edna) 
Due de Nemours 
Edward Simmons 
Favourite 
Garibaldi 
Gen. Grant 
Gold Bound (Mexicana), not 
the Japanese variety. 
Goldcrest (Weir not Dykes) 
Herant 
Honorabile (Aureole, Bril¬ 
liant, Rebecca, Sans Souci) 
Lady Stump 
Lizzie 
Lord Macaulay 
Lord Salisbury 
Malvina (Eleon, Hokanum, 
Sambucina Major, Shakes¬ 
peare, Sir Walter Scott, 
Walter Scott) 
Minos (Lmn. not Perry) 
Pharaon 
Poiteau 
Pres. Thiers 
Rebecca 
Sans Souci (Carlotta Patti) 
Swerti (Pecutum, Plicata' 
Ulysses 
The American Iris Society hopes it will have the cooperation 
of all nurserymen and gardeners in bringing about the discard¬ 
ing of these varieties.— John C. Wister, President. 
THE MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 
A LECTURE programme in connection with the regular flower 
exhibitions for the present season is announced as follows: 
Rambler and other Roses, Small Fruits and Vegetables, Sat¬ 
urday and Sunday, July 7 and 8; “Small Fruits” by William 
N. Craig. 
Gladiolus Exhibition, Saturday and Sunday, August 11 and 
12; “Gladiolus Culture” by A. L. Stephen. 
Dahlia Exhibition, Saturday and Sunday, September 8 and 9; 
“Dahlias” by Mrs. Charles H. Stout. 
Fruits and Vegetables, September 28, 29, and 30; Saturday, 
“Vegetable Gardening” by Prof. H. F. Tompson; Sunday, 
Fruit Culture” by Albert R. Jenks. 
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