EVERY GARDEN MEA^S HOME 
LIVING, AND THE GARDEN 
lEVERAL articles in this number of The Garden 
Magazine ask consideration for those very essential 
garden materials that are not the living denizens of 
the enclosure. “What is a garden?” may well be asked. 
Surely not merely a place where plants grow, for a 
nursery or park will answer that definition. Instinctively 
everyone feels that “garden” expresses something of close 
human contact. Indeed, the garden must be a personal affair 
and like our personal rooms in the dwelling house will be 
furnished for comfort. There are lots of things that belong in 
a garden which are not products of the horticulturist’s skill. 
And indeed there is a wide opening field of pleasant and profit¬ 
able occupation for a special type of artist or decorator who shall 
help make the garden a picture or a truly well furnished and 
practical outdoor room for real recreation (re-creation), mental 
and physical. There is no wish to abate by one jot the plant 
interest in the garden, but rather to enhance it by making the 
place one where the flourishing plant can be intimately enjoyed 
and lived with. 
A great painter will pay meticulous attention to the frame in 
which his work is displayed. Why not the gardener too? The 
products of his art are equally enhanced by proper setting and 
as much attention should be devoted to what we lightly call 
“accessories” as to the living components. Accessory is an 
unfortunate term suggesting somewhat a secondary impor¬ 
tance—or even less—whereas these things are of equal value in 
making a livable garden. Flowers? Yes, since “wherever 
flowers cannot be reared, there man cannot live”; but a great 
variety of garden furnishing material invites consideration— 
pottery and statuary, gazing-globes and fountains, properly used, 
all help to create that home atmosphere which distinguishes 
the well-conducted garden from the one run indifferently. 
In no other fashion can individuality be expressed more 
strikingly than through a harmoniously arranged and furnished 
garden. Furnishing a garden may be likened to furnishing a 
room. You wouldn’t think of moving in your rugs, your fur¬ 
niture, the pictures, etc., until the carpenters had finished all 
their work! Similarly, when nature has completed her con¬ 
structive work in the garden man may most appropriately 
place the objects that transform the garden into a true outdoor 
living room. Let us give more attention to these things! 
A CREATOR AND PAINTER OF IRISES 
M R. J. MARION SHULL, whose delightful Iris, Morning 
Splendor, appears on the cover, is both artist and hybridist. 
Inheriting a love for flowers and a collector’s spirit, the begin¬ 
nings of an Iris collection soon became more than that and a 
chance seed-pod settled the matter! Sharing the botanical 
and genetic interests of his brother Prof. George Shull, now of 
Princeton, Mr. Shull approached the work of raising hybrids 
with a singleness of purpose that has had much to do with the 
success of his seedlings. Time after time he has set for himself 
definite problems to solve, goals to attain, and has brought some 
already to a successful issue, while others remain in progress. 
Although there have been some Irises that have been worth 
saving that were not in the direct line of the original programs, 
the selection from the masses of seedlings have been few and 
all show his high standard. Personally, 1 prefer the later 
seedlings, of which the beautiful Morning Splendor and Julia 
Marlowe are noble examples. These are splendid Irises, of size, 
clear and fine color, height and vigor and should certainly find 
permanent places in the I ris world, particularly so as they incline 
to the red side of the Iris range of color.— B. Y. Morrison. 
A PIONEER FLORIST 
AND PROTAGONIST OF GARDENS 
J OHN CHARLES VAUGHAN, who died in Chicago on 
April 12th, was a personality whose passing merits a note. 
Though the founder of the seed business in New York and 
Chicago bearing his name it was really in the less obvious 
spheres of his activity that his influence was the most greatly 
felt. He was a member of practically every trade and allied 
association and for many years an active campaigner. |. C. 
Vaughan died in his seventy-fourth year, active until the very 
last day of his existence. 
As a pioneer in horticultural affairs he was a figure of real 
interest. He founded the now large industry of selling cut 
flowers on commission, starting the practice in Chicago. 1 he 
whole day’s supply for that time was frequently carried in a 
single basket! Now look at the immense product of the cut 
flower industry in that western metropolis where glasshouses for 
Roses, etc. are measured by acres. All this was a development 
of a business of which “J. C.”, as he was always referred to by 
his intimates, foresaw the possibilities and laid the very begin¬ 
nings. When he relinquished that line of activity some thirty 
years ago his turnover had grown from less than $2,000 to 
$85,000 a year. 
He had an exceptionally keen eye for novelties in garden 
plants and rendered great service to garden lovers as the 
medium through which many a new Gladiolus, Sweet-pea, and 
Canna reached the public, doing much indeed to popularize these 
favorites; and the florist trade will have keen recollections of his 
activities in establishing the Bermuda Lily industry for Easter 
flowers. 
Mr. Vaughan represented horticultural interests in the 
United States Chamber of Commerce and was a consistent 
protagonist for the widening of their sphere, constantly opposing 
the tactics of the Federal Horticultural Board. In an address 
before the Chicago Florists Club as recently as February he pre¬ 
sented the following forceful statement which nullifies the asser¬ 
tion sometimes made that “the trade is all for quarantine 37:” 
The World’s Fair of 1893 saw in our exhibitions and parks, giant Bay trees, 
large Azaleas, and Boxwoods—all since shut out by the United States Quaran¬ 
tine No. 37—and the misguided and commercially ignorant men who control 
this government bureau have given a setback of more than thirty years to the 
display publicity florists should have in our large hotels, public buildings, and 
parks. 1 am safe in saying that if we had to-day the former magnificent Bay 
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