Archives Accession # 2

4.0.0.M55 People in Pacific Northwest horticulture: Elisabeth C. Miller

Date statement: Dates of articles in box: 1961-2014
Summary:

 2 file boxes containing over 25 articles and journals containing articles by and about Elisabeth C. Miller and a folder with more articles by and about Elisabeth C. Miller, and two envelopes containing photographs. 
Several obituary notices and remembrances. Clipping file in Box 2 begins with 1985.
2014 compilation of articles gathered by Martha Ferguson and bound in clear-front folder.

Description:

 Box 1:
Betty Miller in the news, 1961-1984:
Fall 1984, "Achievements to Date!," by Elisabeth C. Miller, Horticulture Northwest, pp. 65-70.
Fall 1984, "What Is a Species? What is a Hybrid?; Final Chapter," by ECM, The Atlanta Botanical Garden.  Issue plus copy.
Summer 1984, "What is a Species? What is a Hybrid; Part 2," by ECM, The Atlanta Botanical Garden.  Issue plus copy.
Spring 1984, paragraph on ECM advice to hesitate digging up plants, Horticulture Northwest, p. 4.
Fall 1982, "Horticultural Research in China," by Betty Carey Miller, Horticulture Northwest,  pp. 51-2. 2 copies of issue, 1 photocopy.
Spring 1982, "There Is Always A Garden," Puget Soundings, 3 pp. 2 copies.
Summer 1981, "1981 Medal Winners," Garden Club of America Bulletin, list and photo, pp. 68-9.
10/1979, "Seattle's Freeway Park," American Forests, 4 pp. Complete issue plus photocopy.
Spring 1979, "Investment in Environmental Horticulture Provides Plant Survival and Low Maintenance," by ECM, WPA Bulletin.
Winter 1978, "Challenge to Maintain the Green Scene," by ECM, WPA Bulletin.
July 1975, "Award winning horticulturalists," excerpt paragraph and photo.
Summer 1974, "Why Green Turns Brown," by ECM, American Horticulturalist, p. 4-13.
9/1973, "The Pacific Northwest Tour," by John M. Fogg, Jr., Newsletter of the Arboretum of the Barnes Foundation.  Includes visit to ECM garden, pp. 4-5. Issue plus excerpt.
1/1970, "Horticulture at the XI International Botanical Congress," Newsletter of the Arboretum of the Barnes Foundation.  Miller Garden mentioned p.3. Issue plus copy.
1970, "Proceedings, XI International Botanical Congress," 334 pp. book.  EDM chair of Citizens' Committee, photo, p. 6.
1969, "Subcommittees of Host Committee," International Botanical Congress Proceedings, p. 6.  List and photo.
1967-68, "Zone IX Horticultural Report," Garden Club of America Horticultural Committee Annual Report, pp. 38-39. 2 copies.
July 1967, "Seattle Garden Club, Washington," Garden Club of America Bulletin, p. 194.
1966-67, Garden Club of America Horticultural Committee Annual Report, lists ECM as vice chair.
11/1966, "Horticulturally Speaking: Part II," by ECM, Bulletin of the Garden Club of America, pp. 21-24. Complete issue plus photocopy.
Spring 1966, "Seattle Plant Science Exhibit," by ECM, WPA Bulletin.
5/1965, "Garden paths shouldn't be straight but they can be narrow,"  Sunset.  Photo only.
3/1965, "Non-Slip Cedar Rounds," by ECM, Bulletin of Garden Club of America, p. 16.  2 copies.
12/1963, "You can have your tree and keep it too," Sunset.
9/1963, "Sunset's Garden Guide," photo of Millers, p. 170.  2 copies.
Spring 1961, "Ground Cover Color," by ECM, WPA Bulletin.

Box 2:
First folder, Betty Miller in the news, 1985 and after:
9/7/2014, "A Force for Nature," Seattle Times. 2 copies.
3/13/1996, Letters responding to "A gardener's garden" (2/28), Seattle Weekly.
2/28/1996, "A Gardener's Garden," Seattle Weekly, 9 pp., 2 copies.  
4/1995, "native garden," Washington magazine, 6 pp., entire issue.
Autumn 1994, "Remembering Betty Miller," Garden Notes, 5 pp.  2 copies of the issue .
   3/21/1994, "Elisabeth Miller, 79; founded Washington Roadside Council," Seattle Times obituary, 2 copies.
   3/19/1994, "Horticulturist Elisabeth Miller dies," P-I.  2 copies.
Spring 1994, "Elisabeth Carey Miller -  In Memoriam," Newsletter of the Garden Conservancy, p. 6.
1/13/1994, "The lady and the bloomin' freeway," P-I, newsclip plus photocopy.
1/1994, "Mrs. Pendleton Miller Honored by the Chinese Garden Society," Seattle Chinese Garden Society Newsletter. 
Winter 1994, "Planting a Library: An Interview with Elisabeth C. Miller," Garden Notes (NHS). 
10/1993, "A Northwest fount of garden knowledge," Sunset.
Summer 1993, "The Elisabeth C. Miller Horticultural Library," WPA Bulletin.
Nov 1990 "Betty Miller Endows Chair, Gives Library Addition" The Campaign UW (photocopy).
10/1990, "Getting Charged Up in Seattle," American Horticulturalist.
6/8/1990 listed as registration of Ilex x meserveae 'Pendleton Miller,' clipping with short article, [No source.]
5/1990, "Local Horticulture Award (Individual), American Horticulturalist.
4/1990, "Betty Miller's Soundside Medley," American Horticulturist, pp. 22-25.  copy of magazine plus photocopy.
Fall 1989, "Unusual Chinese ornamentals in the Pendleton Miller Garden," WPA Bulletin.
January 1988 "1988 AHS Awards Announced" (photocopy) from American Horticulturist.

Second folder in Box 2--other material:
9/18/2005, "The Elisabeth C. Miller Botanical Garden," downloaded from garden website.
3/18/1994, Memo to staff from Clement Hamilton stapled with memorial service program 3/21.  Second copy of program.
"Complete Book of Garden Ornaments . . . ," by Daniel Foley, page on "Saint Fiacre, The Gardeners' Patron" photocopy (explaining image from memorial program).
1/15/1994 program and transcripts from Seattle Chinese Garden Society dinner in honor of Mrs. Pendleton Miller, with remarks from Holly Miller, William Gerberding, Clement Hamilton, Wallace Loh, Mrs. Michael S. Lynn, George Revelle, Cheryl Chow, and a letter from Roy Lancaster; 20 pp. 
1985 or later, resume of ECM current and former Governing Boards, Committees, her Honors and Awards, Publications, Significant Public Projects, Lectures, Horticultural Judging, Garden Tours, Other Memberships, 8 pp. typed.
1984, "The Garden of Elisabeth C. Miller," pp. 127-31 in "The American Woman's Garden" by Rosemary Verey and Ellen Samuels, photocopy.
6/2-4/1976, "Treasure our Earth Horticultural Festival," trifold. ECM chair of steering committee.
1972, "Ornamental Plants Hardy in the Northwest," 76 pp. softbound book.
n.d., "Environmentally Tolerant Trees, Shrubs and Ground Covers," Rev. Ed., booklet, 27 pp. ECM co-chair of American Horticultural Society Environmental Horticulture Committee, booklet publisher.
n.d., one page summary of ECM connection to Miller Library, and NHS establishment of Endowment Fund for the library. [No source.]
Report cover with photocopies of multiple articles about or by ECM.

Third folder in box 2, containing photographs:
Photos by Mary Levin from 1991, along with a contact sheet showing photos of Elisabeth C. Miller Library.
Photos of Betty Miller, including 4/1990 and 6/1989 plus 2 undated photos, all by Mary Randlett. 
Earlier photos from Wallace Ackerman Studio and other uncredited photographers.

Fourth folder in Box 2,  labelled "M. history from Dan," including photos, ink drawing marked "Jack Whitefish," and 11/20/1987 letter from Morton Arboretum Curator of Rare Books Ian MacPhail [2 copies].

Fifth folder in Box 2, labelled "Mrs. Miller's correspondence"
About a dozen letters and cards, 1984-1993. Correspondents include: Polly Hill, J.C. Raulston, Makiko Goto Davis, Dick Brown, Malcolm Moore, Sylvia Duryee, David Murbach, John Hillier, Bagley Wright, Sharon Collman, Carol Wilder Harrigan, and Mareen Kruckeberg.

Accession date: 2011-12-20 Last updated: 2025-11-25 16:09:31
Subjects: Elisabeth C. Miller Botanical Garden, Washington Park Arboretum, Seattle Garden Club

Names	Role	Function
Miller, Elisabeth C., 1914-1994		Source

Location	Note
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