We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. T. S. Eliot, The four Quartets 'Little Giddings'     New & Dwarf Varieties   The Turner Hybrids   I spent a wonderful day with Ted Turner, Sr. and Ted Turner, Jr. at their nursery Turners Gardenland in Corpus Christi, Texas, recording their experiences with oleanders. We walked through greenhouses filled with oleanders in bloom, photographed Ted Sr.'s latest hybrids, viewed rows of container-grown oleanders being pruned to multi-trunk specimens and patio trees, and visited l

INDEX OF COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS   Agnes Campbell' 26 'Algiers' 27 'Apple Blossom' unxcx front 'Apple Blossom' with 'East End Pink' 109 'Barbara Bush' 12 Bob Newding with 'Sorrento' and 'George Sealy' at Gaido's 137 Bouquet form oleander 80 'Casablanca' 57 'Centennial' 139 'Commandant Barthelemy' 16 Curbside planting in Galveston 109 'East End Pink' 144 'EdBarr' 58

Turner's Shari D™   14   Among the grasses, A flower blooms white, Its name unknown.                                  Shiki   Plant Patents   The world is indebted to those who are instrumental in creating and/or discovering new plants. We have included this section on plant patents to encourage anyone who has ever considered hybridizing, or who may have discovered a new and unique plant, to understand the United States patent process as given in the examples below. If a new plant is truly of merit, having characteristics superior to the type whether in flower form, shape, color, size, length of flowering season or plant habit, etc., on

THE HANDBOOK ON OLEANDERS by Richard & Mary Helen Eggenberger   First Editon Mrs. F. Roeding ii iii iv

Commandant Barthélemy When worshippers offer flowers at the altar they are returning to the gods things which they know, or (if they are not visionaries) obscurely feel, to be indigenous to heaven. Aldous Huxley   History and Geography Distribution and Climatic Range   Tolerant of a wide range of soil and climatic conditions, oleanders are found naturally occurring near the Mediterranean Sea in northern Africa from Morocco through Algeria to Tunisia, in southern Europe along the Mediterranean coast from Gibraltar to Lebanon and Israel, and

Franklin D.Roosevelt   10   "Little flower- but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should Know what God and man is." Alfred Lord Tennyson   Oleander Research   Plant research is often highly technical requiring sophisticated laboratory facilities, years of background and training in botanical sciences, and many more years of painstaking experimentation and documentation. Current research is focused on the various cardenolide glycosides and other constituents in oleanders and their pharmaceutical applications, especially with regard to cancer. Known historically to have been used to treat cancerous ulcers and exter

Magnolia Willis Sealy   11 No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture  comparable to that of the garden. Thomas Jefferson   Galveston, the Oleander City   More than any city in the United States, Galveston, Texas, has treasured the oleander. In 1841, Joseph Osterman, a prominent businessman of the day and a merchant and ship owner, brought the first plants from Jamaica as gifts for his wife and his sister-in-law Mrs. Isadore Dyer. These first oleanders, a single white, and a double pink later named after Mrs. Dyer, were planted on the grounds of their homes. Mrs. Dyer loved the flowers and propagated many pl

  L. Lovenberg  1   Flowers are the moments representation Of things that are in themselves eternal. Sri Aurobindo   Oleanders and the Apocynaceae Family   Oleanders are members of one of the most colorful groups of plants in the horticultural kingdom, the Apocynaceae or Dogbane Family. The family was named by A.L.de Jussieu in 1789. Accounts as to the number of genera are varied with Hortus III of the L.H. Bailey Hortorium citing about 130 and the Royal Horticultural Society's Dictionary o

5   There is no monotony in flowers, they are ever unfolding  new charms, developing new forms and revealing new features of interest and beauty to those who love them. Joan Wright     Selected Oleander Cultivars   It would be almost an impossible task to attempt to photograph and describe in detail all the oleander cultivars in existence today, many of which are commercially unavailable. It would also lead to a massive, unwieldy tome that no one would read! While only about fifty varieties were offered in southern nurseries in the United States during the 1940's, our most recent estimate of varieties in cultivation is between 400 and 500

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. Albert Einstein Glossary Anther: The pollen-bearing part of the stamen. Apical fringe: The top portion of the corona which is usually dissected into a fringe. Bicarpellate: Composed of two carpels. A carpel is one of the units that compose a pistil or ovary. Bract: A modified leaf, usually smaller than true leaves and associated with the flowers. They may be colorful and showy as in poinsettias and bougainvilleas. Calyx: The outer whorl of floral envelopes, composed of separate or united sepals. Campanulate: Bell-shaped. Caudex: The swollen stem base of certain plants. Coma: