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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
HYDRANGEA ARBORESCENS GRANDIFLORA 
“HILLS OF SNOW” 
Hydrangea aborescens grandiflora although compar- 
itively new has already become a staple with the growers 
of ornamentals. The demand is becoming greater every 
year as it becomes better known. It has those qualities 
that will insure its popularity with the masses—it grows 
easily, is hardy, propagates readily and rarely fails to do 
well. Another good quality is that it flowers during a 
season when there are not many other shrubs in bloom, 
being at its best about the last week in June and the first 
week in July, although like the hybrid tea roses it will 
keep blooming intermitently as long as it can he kept in 
active growth. It fills in the season of hydrangeas very 
effectively, coming in before the Hydrangea paniculata 
grandiflora and after the Hydrangea Japonica varieties 
so that it is possible to have hydrangeas in bloom from 
privets, Cornus Tamarix, Hibiscus, etc., gave 90 to 100 
per cent. 
For a popular plant its name is entirely too long, and 
being so similar to that of its well-known relative Hy¬ 
drangea pamiculata grandiflora is liable to be very con¬ 
fusing. The popular name Hills of Snow or Snowball 
Hydrangea are very descriptive and identify it beyond 
question. 
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN 
Committees for 1915—1916 appointed by President 
Edward S. Welch. 
Arrangements and entertainment, T. J. Ferguson, Wau¬ 
watosa, Wis. 
Program, L. C. Stark, Louisiana, Mo. 
Exhibits, Albert F. Meehan, Dresher, Penna. 
Hydrangea arborescens grandiflora “Hills of Snow” 
spring until fall. 
In border plantings its height and time of flowering 
makes it one of the foreground shrubs. Three feet may 
be said to be its normal height but under very favorable 
conditions it will reach four to five feet. It is partial to 
a damp, shady position, doing fairly well under high 
branched trees where it can get nourishment and mois¬ 
ture. Everything considered it is an extremely satisfac¬ 
tory shrub and the demand is likely to be heavy for years 
to come. 
It propagates very readily by layers producing a sal¬ 
eable plant in one season. Stems put down in the sum¬ 
mer are ready to take off in the fall. No doubt soft wood 
cuttings would root very readily put in in August. The 
wood is rather too pithy to make good hard wood cut¬ 
tings. Plantings of hard wood cuttings produced a stand 
of about 50 per cent, under the same conditions that 
Legislation, east of Mississippi River, William Pitkin, 
Rochester, N. Y. 
Legislation, west of Mississippi River, Peter Youngers, 
Geneva, Neb. 
Tariff, Irving Rouse, Rochester, N. Y. 
Root Gall, E. A. Smith, Lake City, Minn. 
Transportation, C. M. Sizemore, Louisiana, Mo. 
Editing Report, John Hall, Secretary, Rochester, N. Y. 
The following committees w T ere appointed by the exe¬ 
cutive committee: 
Finance, J. H. Dayton, Painesville, Ohio; T. J. Smith, 
Geneva, N. Y.; John Watson, Newark, N. Y. 
Publicity, J. R. Mayhew, Waxahachie, Texas; L. C. 
Stark, Louisiana, Mo. 
