HORTICULTURE 



VOL III 



MARCH lO, 1906 



NO. lO 



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CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE 



Page 

 FRONTISPIECE— The Tree Fern at Home 



PHALAENOPSIS— Edgar Elvin— Illustrated 279 



TREE FERNS— A. Hans 280 



TWO VALUABLE ASPARAGUS SPECIES— G. C. 



Watson 281 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett 281 



FORCING TOMATOES— R. L. Adams 282 



HAEMANTHUS— J. F. Huss— Illustrated 283 



CHRYSANTHEMUMS FOR EXHIBITION— Wm. A. 



Riggs 283 



EDITORIAL 284 



TRANSPLANTING NOTES— Warren J. Chandler 285 



OBITUARY 285 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



American Rose Society 286 



Philadelphia Florists' Cluh 286 



Cleveland Florists' Club 286 



A Dayton Symposium 286 



Newport Horticultural Society 287 



Lenox Horticultural Society 287 



Tarrytown Horticultural Society 287 



Florists' Club of Washington 287 



Peter Bissett— Portrait 287 



Pittsburg and Allegheny Florists' and Gardeners' 



Club 287 



Page 

 NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES (Continued) 



New Jersey Floricultural Society 287 



Society of American Florists 291 



Elberon Horticultural Society 291 



Club and Society Notes 291 



RAILROAD GARDENING — Paul Huebner— Illustrated 288 



SEED TRADE TOPICS 290 



Catalogues Received 290 



ORNAMENTAL SCHOOL GROUNDS— G. A. Heyne 292 



CUT FLOWER MARKET REPORTS 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, 



Louisville, New York, Philadelphia 295 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Personal * 285 



What They Say of Us 285 



Pennisetum Macrophyllum Atropurpureum 285 



Wholesome Chestnuts 285 



Forcing the Variegated Maple 285 



News Notes 289 



Philadelphia Notes 291 



California Notes 295 



Business Changes 295 



The Perfection of Greenhouse Building 301 



Greenhouses Building and Projected 301 



List of Patents 301 



Advertisements for Rose Number Should Reach us by March 12 



LOCAL REPRESENTATIVES 



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

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

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MONTREAL— William Cooper, 568 St Paul St. 

 NEWPORT, R. I. — David Mcintosh, Ledge Road. 

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



St. 

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Ness Av. 

 WASHINGTON, D. G. — Z. D. Blacklstone, 14th and H 



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