HORTICULTURE 



VOL III 



FEBRUARY lO, 1900 



NO. 6 



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CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE 



Page 

 FRONTISPIECE— Iris Garden at Yokohama Nur- 

 series, Japan 



FERNS FOR EVERY DAY USE— A. Hans. Illus... 159 



TUBEROUS ROOTED BEGONIAS— H. H. Thomas. 159 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett 160 



EXHIBITION GROUPS— Edgar Elvin 161 



WINTER FLOWERING SWEET PEAS— Wm.Sim. 161 



EDITORIAL 162 



OBITUARY 



M. Ernest C. M. Fierens; M. O. de Meulenaere; 



Mrs. A. D. Wood; Frank W. Dobbs 163 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



New York Florists' Club 164 



New Jersey Florieultural Society 164 



Tarrytown Horticultural Society 164 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston 165 



Newport Horticultural Society 165 



Page 

 NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— (Continued) 



American Rose Society 165 



Society of American Florists 165 



Florists' Club of Philadelphia 167 



Lenox Horticultural Society 167 



Club and Society Notes 167 



CUT FLOWER MARKET REPORTS 



Boston, Buffalo, Cincinnati, Detroit, Louisville, 

 New York, Philadelphia 169 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Newport Notes 163 



An Endorsement for My Maryland 163 



A Word from President Fisher 163 



News Notes 163 



Philadelphia Notes 169 



Business Changes 169 



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