BULLETIN
FAIRCHILD TROPICAL GARDEN
Incorporated Under the Laws of the State of Florida
IN CORAL GABLES
Mailing Address: Box 407, Coconut Grove, Florida
Dr. David Fairchild____________________________President Emeritus
Robert H. Montgomery Director, Fairchild Tropical Garden
Dr. E. D. Merrill_______________________________________.President
Mrs. Joseph M. Cudahy __________________________Vice-President
Julian S. Eaton_____________. . . . .___________________________Treasurer
Marjory Stoneman Douglas , Secretary 8t Editor of Bulletin
BOARD OF MANAGERS
The foregoing and
Dr. Bowman F. Ashe
Leland Hyzer
Dr. L. H. Bailey
Harold F. Loomis
George W. Mead
Mrs. Albert J. Bigler
Eleanor
F. Montgomery
Mrs. George P. Brett
Col. P. J. O'Sbaughnessy
Charles H. Crandon
Dr. Homer J. Rhode
Hon. A. A. Godard
Prior Sinclair
Augustus S. Houghton
Mrs. Willis D. Wood
A. C. Jordahn______________________________________Superintendent
Mrs. Marion Dall ., — _ — ______________Museum Curator
EDITORS OF THE BULLETIN
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Lucita Wait
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Leonard Onnerod
Pauline Corley
NOTES
The book department has received
a new lot of foreign and rare stamps.
These make Christmas gifts for the
children. Priced according to catalog.
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The traveling Kodachrome library
is home now. If any garden club
wishes to show them at a meeting this
winter, please contact the office.
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On the evening of Jan. 16th the F.
T. G. will present Mr. George F.
Pring, Superintendent of the Missouri
Botanical Garden. Mr. Pring will
show movies of water lilies, chrysant h e m u m s , f l o w e r shows. Come
promptly at eight, please. Twenty-five
cents to members.
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For sale—Fine oak firewood; $25.00
a cord, delivered, with some fat pine
kindling thrown in, free. We are also
agents for the wonderful "White
Magic," that makes housework easy.
Orders are being taken for cases, at
$11.75 tor a case of 24 boxes. Buy a
case and save! The commission goes
toward the Garden.
"CAT'S WHISKERS"
HE other day Dr. J. J. Ochse,
now professor of Economic
Tropical Botany in the University of Miami after thirty
years' sojourn in Java, and author of
two remarkable books on the fruits
and vegetables of Java, brought his
class to the Kampong. I showed the
class a plant of my F. G. Ex. No. 214,
a mint with pretty white flowers having long slender stamens that stand
out stiffly two inches or more from
the flower stem.
"I collected this in the little village
of Taroena on the island of that name
—one of the smallest of a tiny archipelago in the Dutch East Indies. I am
ashamed to say I have never identified it," I remarked.
"Oh, that is the 'Kumis Kuching', or
Cat's Whiskers," said Dr. Ochse. "It
is a drug plant well known in the
Dutch Pharmacopaea. Leaves of it
are dried and sent to Holland, where
it is used as a remedy for certain kidney troubles. Its scientific name is
Orthosiphora grandiflorus, and it occurs widely distributed over the
Malay Archipelago. Don't its flowers
suggest a cat's whiskers?"
This pretty mint grows rapidly and
spreads easily on the Kampong, and
may require watching,but it is a
charming plant when its snow-white
flower spikes open.
David Fairchild.
THE COVER
The cover picture this month is
Aristolochia elegans, the Calicoflower. It was made as one of a collection of garden highlights, and presented to the FTG by Mr. Griffin
McCarthy, one of our new members
of St. Louis, Missouri, who is spending several months in Miami.