HORTICULTURE 



VOL III 



JANUARY 13, 1906 



NO. 2 



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Entered as second- lass matter December 8, 1904, at the Post Office at Boston, Mass., under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. 



CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE 



Page 

 FRONTISPIECE— A Sub-Tropical Bed 



FERNS FOR EVERYDAY USE— A. Hans— Illustrated. 35 



OUR FRONTISPIECE 35 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett 36 



OBITUARY 



Samuel B. Parsons. Portrait 37 



Joseph Kift, Sr. Portrait 37 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



American Institute of New York 37 



New Bedford Horticultural Society 37 



New Jersey Floricultural Society 37 



North Shore Horticultural Society 37 



Elberon Horticultural Society 37 



Nassau County Horticultural Society 38 



New York Florists' Club ! 40 



Madison Gardeners' and Florists' Club 40 



Massachusetts Horticultural Society 40 



New Haven County Horticultural Society 4n 



American Carnation Society 4" 



Chicago Florists' Club 40 



National Nut Growers' Association 40 



Tarrytown Horticultural Society 40 



Page 

 NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES (Continued) 



Lenox Horticultural Society 41 



New Castle Florist Club 41 



Newport Horticultural Society 41 



Society of American Florists — Portraits 41 



EDITORIAL 38 



SEED TRADE 39 



American Seed Trade Association 39 



CUT FLOWER MARKET REPORTS 



Boston. Buffalo. Chicago, Cincinnati. Louisville. 



New York. Philadelphia. Toledo 45 



Belated Reports 43 



MISCELLANEOUS 



After Adjournment 39 



Newport Personals 39 



An Increase in Business 39 



Business Changes 39 



Philadelphia Notes 39 



Pacific ('nasi Notes 39 



Personal 39 



Catalogues Received 42 



"Aristocrat" 43 



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 CINCINNATI, O.— Albert J. Gray, 129 E. Third St. 

 INDIANAPOLIS, IND.— George B. Wiegand, 1610 N. Illi- 

 nois St. 

 LOUISVILLE, KY.-F. L. Schulz, Jr., 1325 Cherokee Rd. 

 MONTREAL— William Cooper, 568 St. Paul St. 



LOCAL REPRESENTATIVES 



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 PHILADELPHIA, PA. — George C. Watson, 1614 Ludlow 



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