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House & Garden 
Notes of the Garden Clubs 
(Continued from page 118) 
year, annuals, bulbous plants, rose cul¬ 
ture, and “Shrubs and their Right Use’’ 
are to form part of the programs. In 
1922 a Community Meeting was ar¬ 
ranged, at which Mr. W. A. Cook, 
landscape architect, spoke on “Florida 
Flower Growing’’. The chief accom¬ 
plishment of the club, while still in the 
form of the Garden Committee, was a 
Flower Show, of which the idea and 
success were due in large part to Miss 
Edwards, the present President, aided 
by her special Committee of Miss Alice 
Knox, Miss Munson, and Miss Anna 
Treat. An Oriental Tea-Garden ar¬ 
ranged by Mrs. E. W. Packard of Green¬ 
wich, Conn., and Mrs. John Harris of 
Newburg-on-Hudson, proved to be 
completely artistic, even to a Chinese 
maiden playing on her native lute. 
Florida native plants, shrubs, trees and 
vines were employed in developing this 
Garden. In the main room of the 
Women’s Club, where the Show was 
given, potted plants and flowers were 
used to represent a “formal” garden, in 
which a fountain and benches were 
placed. The flowers exhibited included 
Amaryllis, yellow and white calla lilies, 
orchids, hibiscus, gladioli, plumbago, 
double poinsettias, begonias, roses, vio¬ 
lets and pansies, and sweet peas. Miss 
Edwards showed a table of annuals. In 
the “Table Decorations”, first honors 
went to Mrs. McDonald, second to Mrs. 
Hershy, and third to Miss Boynton and 
Miss Kingsley jointly. On one after¬ 
noon there were 700 visitors, and one 
evening Mrs. Potter showed her “Col¬ 
lection of Slides of Gardens”. The 
open forum on gardens, conducted by 
Miss Edwards, afforded opportunity 
for questions and answers. In the 
numerous flower arrangements of the 
Show, the first, second, and third awards 
were received by Mrs. Freeman, Miss 
Peschmann and Mrs. Hennessy. The 
garden club plans another Flower Show 
in March, 1923, at which it hopes to 
exhibit miniature garden models as an 
inspiration to the study of landscape 
gardening. Also the club intends to 
have the trees and shrubs, in the public 
grounds of the town labelled botani- 
cally. Another plan is to gather to¬ 
gether the experiences of the members 
in. Florida planting which can be 
printed as a “Planting Primer”, some¬ 
thing especially needed. Two of the 
members have formal gardens and 
others are just designing their gardens, 
but so far most of the work is in ex¬ 
perimenting, horticulturally, with the 
Florida climate and conditions. 
Ellen Cunningham 
TH E MAPLE TREE 
I N that ancient gummy excrescence, 
amber, many peculiar things are 
found which no longer have a counter¬ 
part in the world to-day. Even flowers 
and fruits of the maples have come 
down to us, excellently preserved in this 
unique material. From such finds we 
know that certain species of maples, 
now extinct, are closely related to those 
of other countries, while others have 
entirely disappeared. 
To-day the maples are a stately 
family of trees with numerous repre¬ 
sentatives, most of which occur in the 
temperate zone. They are unassuming, 
quick growing and of wonderful form, 
so that they have become one of the 
most universal of shade trees. 
The European mountain maple, Acer 
pseudoplatanus, reached a height of 90'. 
The trunk is tall and slender and car¬ 
ries a large well formed crown. Entire 
sites of these trees are found in Switzer¬ 
land. Few diseases attack it and it with¬ 
stands a most rigorous climate so that 
it is a very suitable street tree. As an 
individual tree it grows to its fullest 
beauty, but its varieties euchlorum Leo¬ 
poldi with variegated leaves, Simon 
Louis jreres and joliis purpureus de¬ 
velop it to its best advantage. Var. 
Leopoldi has red shoots, the leaves later 
turning a speckled white. This is more 
pronounced in the variety Simoni. The 
var. atropurpureum has the lower sur¬ 
face of its leaves colored a pale purple. 
Much more brighter is the sub-variety 
“Prince Handjery” with its rose to brick 
red upper surface and marbled green 
and grayish yellow under surface. This 
form is very slow growing so that it is 
especially adapted for smaller gardens. 
A much more rapid growing variety is 
the yellow leaved worleei. 
Exceptionally unfavorable for this 
European mountain majJle is stagnating 
water. On the other hand it drives its 
roots deeply into the ground. In its 
youth the tree is tolerant but becomes 
more and more intolerant of shade as 
it grows older. It grows rapidly in 
height for the first 25 years, then its 
growth is much slower and stops with 
its 90th year, although the life of this 
tree is about 400 years. 
The seeds can be kept for about one 
year but germination takes place five 
weeks after sowing. 
Acer platanoides, the Norway maple, 
attains the same height as the European 
mountain maple although it grows 
somewhat more slowly. The crown 
is rounded, densely interwoven with 
twigs, and covered with heavy dark 
green leaves which permit but little 
light to pass. It is practically immune 
to diseases although sometimes attacked 
by the leaf louse, Periphyllus lyropictus, 
which not only causes yellow spots to 
appear on the foliage, but also causes 
it to fall prematurely. The tree is 
tolerant and can be placed in a very 
damp soil as it withstands the action 
of stagnating waters. The buds unfold 
late in the spring and the leaves are 
kept far into the fall at which time 
they are colored a bright yellow. 
Numerous varieties have been devel¬ 
oped from the Norway maple. Vari¬ 
colored leaves with the edges a distinct 
yellow are produced by var. joliis aureo 
marginatis. Var. Schwedleri and var. 
Reitenbachi have reddish foliage. Var. 
lacinatum has finely slit leaves and in 
var. dissectium and var. Lorbergi it is 
still more pronounced. The variety 
crispum has a jagged and crinkly leaf. 
Exceptionally well adapted for individ¬ 
ual plantings are the columnar variety 
var. columnare, the spherical crown de¬ 
veloping var. globosum, and the short 
twigged, upright growing dwarfed form 
var. pygmaeum. 
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