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WHAT AMATEUR GARDENERS CAN DO 
(Continued from pace 50) 
A man sent a plate of apples to a 
show and a nurseryman seeing them, 
decided that they were an acquisition 
and worthy of propagation. In some 
way the name of the exhibitor was lost 
and the only thing to do was to wait 
another year to see if the same man 
would show again. Fortunately, he did 
and the nurseryman was on hand to get 
his name and immediately proceeded to 
secure the tree and all rights to prop¬ 
agate it. In this way the Delicious 
apple was saved. The wonderful 
McIntosh apple which perpetuates the 
name of its discoverer, was a thrifty 
young seedling tree in the Canadian 
wilderness a hundred years ago, and 
attracted the attention of the owner 
who was clearing the forest, so that he 
saved it. It has shown remarkable 
ability to transmit its hardiness and de¬ 
sirable characteristics to its offspring, 
so much so that 50% of its seedlings 
are worthy of propagation, and it is 
the parent of a new race of apples 
which will have a remarkable influence 
on apple production in northeastern 
America in the next fifty years. 
We do not need to defend the posi¬ 
tion of the amateur in American horti¬ 
culture, but as I read over the few 
illustrations cited, I feel they are so 
pitifully small compared with what he 
has done, that they but illustrate the 
opportunities before us. Furthermore, 
I have taken up but one small part of 
the work—the study of the variation in 
the plants themselves. Those working 
with them will have all the inspiration 
which comes from doing the work in 
the best possible manner. The one who 
grows flowers, fruits and vegetables, 
should devote his energies to the pro¬ 
duction of varieties of high quality 
THE EVOLUTION of 
which cannot be purchased. It is not 
wise to grow Baldwin, Rome or Ben 
Davis apples, when there are such 
varieties as Primate, Early Joe, Cox 
Orange, Fall Strawberry, Mother, 
McIntosh, Melon and a long list of 
desirables which few people know; it 
is not worth while to grow Lombard 
plums and neglect Imperial Epineuse, 
Miller’s Superb, Sannois, and a whole 
list of Gage plums; a few canners have 
recently discovered what a wonderful 
preserve can be made from ripe red 
English gooseberries, such as Industry, 
but the home garden should furnish 
them for eating out of hand for a 
month. 
Who is going to push our native 
fruits? 
There is one great force which is 
going to take hold of American horti¬ 
culture and place it on a standard 
higher than our commercial horticul¬ 
ture can attain, that will lead to ad¬ 
vances unparalleled. That force is the 
amateur. The joy of achievement will 
be his incentive. The inherent love for 
out-of-doors will be his impelling force. 
With these at liberty to function, we 
may stage exhibitions of fruits, vege¬ 
tables and flowers second to none. We 
are not getting the fun out of showing 
that we might; we have too much of 
the attitude of the theatre where we 
go to witness a few perform, rather 
than the spirit of the drama where we 
all join in the play. The remedy lies 
with the amateur, and not alone with 
those who have means to employ ex¬ 
perts to produce this or that, but with 
those men and women who get out and 
personally work with the plants and 
take joy in it. 
Samuel Fraser 
SHRUB PLANTING 
(Continued front page 68) 
Japanese quince. Complicated, if you 
like, but one or two of a kind will give 
the effect. 
Another early picture is that of 
double white peach and white flower¬ 
ing almonds standing out against the 
green of the hemlocks. Planted for 
shade under the existing maples are the 
very early fragrant bush honeysuckle 
and Forsythia with under-drifts of daf¬ 
fodils. The yellow-root, planned to face 
the somewhat leggy flowering almonds, 
might be happily displaced by ferns and 
wild flowers, provided the trouble of 
collecting them can be spared. 
In May the center of interest shifts. 
The giant pine which shades the house 
determines the character of the nearby 
planting. Directly beneath, where the 
grass is sparse, is a ground cover of 
dwarf spreading Japanese yew, or for 
economy’s sake, the less compact native 
yew. With the yews are evergreen 
euonymus clipped to keep it low like 
a ground cover, and the still lower 
herbaceous evergreen pachysanda. 
An upright Japanese yew accents the 
corner of the porch, forming a rich 
dark background for the pale pink 
Azalea Vaseyi and the fragrant Korean 
viburnum with blossoms like huge 
clustered mayflowers. This daintier 
spring effect was introduced near the 
house because the dashing scarlet and 
gold of the far border precluded the use 
of pink. As fitting companions to the 
veteran pine two magnificent specimens 
of large-flowered pink magnolia were 
chosen to flank the front walk. To 
bloom with these, but on the other side 
of the house, unchallenged by the scar¬ 
let quince, we intend to plant a red-bud 
at some future date. 
Blooming later (about the end of 
May) are two double pink Bechtel’s 
crabs, standing alone in the lawn as if 
escaped from the border. Placed where 
they will somewhat soften the corners 
of the house and at the same time en¬ 
close the flower border, are some gar- 
denesque, domestic spring shrubs, like 
lilacs, diervilla and the drooping Spiraea 
Van Houtteii, which, though most fit¬ 
ting companions to the iris and tulips, 
would look decidedly out of place in 
the more woodsy atmosphere of the far 
border. 
To return to the latter—the element 
of form now enters strongly into the 
composition. On the end next the side¬ 
walk something was needed low enough 
not to cut off the view dov n the street 
which at the same time would thrive 
under the large street maple. The fol¬ 
lowing low-growing shrubs were chosen 
as much for their attractive foliage and 
twig texture as for their flowers and 
fruit—hybrid syringas, fragrant white in 
June, pink flowering raspberry with its 
luxuriant green leaves just where the 
shade is 'deepest, and where they will 
excite admiration in midsummer when 
flowering shrubs are seldom seen, spicy 
sweet pepper bush, spiraea callosa alba 
and hyperieum of the clustered golden 
stamens. Of interest later on are snow- 
berry, coral berry, and the purple- 
fruited callicarpia. 
This low point having been arranged 
satisfactorily, the remainder of the bor¬ 
der Vv 3.5 allowed to vary in height, being 
tallest at the far end. 
In early summer a mass of pink 
(Continued on page 90) 
