Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-18
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

Every one who attended the annual
| exhibition of the American Horticul-
turaI Society found something to his
liking.
We mean to his particular liking, for
J all flower shows are interesting, with
| their masses of blossoms, their atmoS-
phere of quiet competition.
1t is the peculiar appeal which some
one variety eXerts, we believe, which
constitutes the great drawing card.
No one attends such an exhibition
without finding something new to strike
his fancy, some flower which he never
saw before, but which he goes away
vowing to plant in the future.
There were two things which attract
ed us in particular-the first a speci-
men of Armenia, or Bees Ruby and the
second Heucheria, variety Sanguinea
Splendens.
Amid the splendor of the great peo-
MES these little flowers would have been
lost unless one has been looking eSpe-
cially for such novelties.
Every flower which is new to one is
novelty" in one sense. 1t need not
be rarity in the true sense, but only
rarity to the individual spectator.
A man who, through some quirk of
fortune, had never seen a gladioluS
might find a fine variety the greatest
novelty in the world---to him.
There are certain sections of this
country where some of the more So
phisticated varieties of roses, for in
stance, are rarities. A person from such
a place presumably might find a single
blossom OF Red, Radiance true novelty.
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Our first turn around the halls was
given over to looking for new things,
always pleasing occupation but espe-
cially so at a flower show, where there
Is always something one has not seen
before
The first thing we found new Ito us)
was this Armenia, or Bees Ruby, sweet
scented, composed of red tufts of color
very close to magenta, only darker.
There has been much to-do in the
garden world about magenta, but as for
us We like it. 1t is sort of funda-
mental shade which does not clash"
half as much as many garden writers
have tried to make out.
Bees Ruby proved it.
Here is a member of the Statice fam
lily which would help beautify any gar
den. Perhaps it would not be advis-
able to place it near clear pink, such
as the Radiance rose or any one of the
soft, pink gladiolus varieties.
Outside of this little precaution, how
ever, Armenia would fit in any place
AS a cut flower for the living room it is
peculiarly appropriate.
The dictionary, with the usual lack of
feeling for the reader, defines Statice as
"a genus of plumbaginaceou plants of
the north temperate region" These
tufted herbs have narrow leaves and
long scapes bearing heads of pink, pur-
pie and white flowers.
Statice armenia, variouSly known as
thrift, or sea pink, is the one we want.
Heucheria was named after German
botanist, Johann Heinrich Heucher. 1t
constitutes a genus of North American
saxifragaceous herbs having small pani
cled flowers. 1t belongs TO the alum
root family.
A herb, it may be we'll to refresh our
memory, is a seed plant whose stem
does not develop woody tissue. Mostly
we think of some plant whose top is
used in medicine or cookery.
The Sanguinea splendens variety, as
its name implies, is light blood red, the
flowers being in the form of little bells.
1t depends for effectiveness upon a