HORTICULTURE 



VOL III 



MAY 19, 1906 



NO. 20 



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CONTENTS OF THIS 



Page 

 FRONTISPIECE— Trailing Arbutus 



FORSYTHIA SUSPENSA— Robert Cameron— Illus 643 



TOMATO TIP ROT— R. L. Adams 643 



SEED SEPARATION— Prof. George E. Stone— Illus. . . 644 

 SPRING FLOWERS IN ENGLAND— H. H. Thomas... 645 



EDITORIAL 



Decoration Day — To investigate injurious insects 

 — An instance of short-sightedness — Some pe- 

 culiar results of the past winter 046 



AFTER ADJOURNMENT 647 



OUT OF THE GINGER JAR— G. C. W 647 



WHOLESOME CHESTNUTS 647 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



Society of American Florists — Trade Exhibit, 



Badge Book 648 



New York Florists' Club 648 



Morris County Gardeners' and Florists' Society 648 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston 648 



New London County Horticultural Society 648 



New Bedford Horticultural Society 648 



Club and Society Notes 648 



ISSUE 



Page 



BOSTON'S GREAT PARK SYSTEM 649 



SARRACENIA HYBRIDS 649 



THE SENIOR CLASS AT AMHERST AGRICUL- 

 TURAL COLLEGE— Illustrated 649 



OBITUARY 



Wru. A. Coffin — Hans Bartels — Anthony Cook — 



Charles P. Grimmer, Portrait 650 



FLOWERING TREES AND SHRUBS— A. Herrington. 652 



BOUVARDIAS 654 



CUT FLOWER MARKET REPORTS 



Boston, Buffalo, Cincinnati, Columbus, Detroit, 



Louisville, New York, Philadelphia 659 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Rehmannia angulata 647 



In the Woods in May — Poetry 647 



The Spring Feeling Breaks Out in Philadelphia.. 649 



Nevs Notes 649 



Publications Received 649 



San Francisco Notes 650 



Philadelphia Notes 650 



Business Changes 657 



Catalogues Received 657 



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