HORTICULTURE 



VOL III 



FEBRUARY 24, 1906 



NO. 8 



Published Weekly by 



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CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE 



Page 

 FRONTISPIECE— House of Succulents 

 NOTES ON HERBACEOUS PLANTS— W. H. 



Waite— Illustrated 215 



JAPANESE CYPRESS— Warren J. Chandler. . . 216 



SOME NEW PLANTS— H. II. Thomas 2 1 ] 



C0EL0GYNE CRISTATA— Jas. Hutchinson— 



Illustrated 218 



L0NGW0RTH-E00SEVELT BRIDAL BOU- 

 QUET— Illustration 219 



EDITORIAL 220 



AFTER ADJOURNMENT 221 



WHAT THEY SAY OF US 22 ! 



SHORT NOTES FROM ABROAD— C. Harman 



Payne 221 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



North Shore Horticultural Society Banquet . . 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston 2 



National Council of Horticulture 222 



Newport Horticultural Society 2 2 3 



Morris County Gardeners' and Florists' Club. 223 



Lenox Horticultural Society - 2 "2 3 



Society of American Florists 



Omaha Florists' Club 223 



Royal Horticultural Society Schedule . 



Elberon Horticultural Society 223 



Club and Society Notes 231 



Page 



LIBRARY NOTES— C. Harman Payne 224 



SEED TRADE TOPICS 



I Irasses for Pasture and Foliage 227 



Test of 1905 Seed Novelties 227 



Seed Trade Notes 227 



Catalogues Received 227 



Conrad Appel's Grass Seed Report 227 



Vegetable Growing 227 



CUT FLOWER MARKET REPORTS 



Boston, Buffalo, Cincinnati, Columbus, Detroit, 

 Louisville, Indianapolis, Omaha, Philadel- 

 phia 231 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Alice Roosevelt's Bridal Bouquet 221 



International Exhibition 228 



Philadelphia Notes 228 



Obituary 228 



A Fine Brookline Estate 228 



California Notes 229 



Philadelphia Notes 231 



An Exciting Hunt for Insect Parasites 236 



Nitrogen in Dead Leaves 237 



A New Summer Estate 237 



Reforesting the California Mountains 237 



News Notes 238 



List of Patents 238 



Greenhouses Building and Projected 238 



LOCAL REPRESENTATIVES 



BUFFALO, N. Y.— E. C. Brucker, 385-87 Ellicott St. NEWPORT, R. !.— David Mcintosh, Ledge Road. 



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



CHICAGO, ILL.— E. W. D. Laufer, 2327 N. Leavitt St 

 CLEVELAND, O.— A. L. Hutchins, 38 Plymouth St 

 CINCINNATI, O.— Frank W. Ball, 818 E. 3rd Street. 

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

 nois St 

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

 VONTREAL— William Cooper, 568 St Paul St 



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SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. — Luther Monnette, 1100 Van 



Ness Av. 

 WASHINGTON, D. 0. — Z. D. Blackistone, 14th and Irf 



Street , N. W. 



