HORTICULTURE 



VOL III 



MARCH 17, 1906 



NO. 11 



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



CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE 



Page 



FRONTISPIECE— Madonna 



SOME COOK ROSES— Illustrated 315 



NEW ROSES— H. H. Thomas 315 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett 316 



SOME INTERESTING RESULTS IN ROSE HY- 

 BRIDIZATION— John Cook 317 



DAMPING OFF OF SEEDLINGS— W. H. Waite 317 



BEGONIA GLOIRE DE! SCEAUX— John Thatcher 317 



INNATE TENDENCY OF LIFE TOWARD PERFEC- 

 TION— R. G. Leavitt 318 



ROSE SCHNEEWITTCHEN— Waugh— Illustrated. .. . 319 



EUCHARIS— James Hutchinson 320 



EEL WORMS OR NEMATODES— R. L. Adams... . 320 



AZALEAS — George Moore 321 



EDITORIAL 322 



PERFUMED FRAGMENTS 323 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



American Rose Society 321 



The Judges at Boston Show, Portraits 324-325 



Alexander Montgomery. Portrait 326 



Massachusetts Horticultural Society 324 



Hartford Florists* Club 324 



Chicago Florists' Club 324 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston 324 



Cincinnati Florists' Society 325 



Columbus Florists' Club 325 



St. Louis Florists' Club 325 



Worcester County Horticultural Society 325 



Illinois State Florists' Association 325 



Huntington Horticultural and Agricultural Society 325 



New York Florists' Club 326 



Nassau County Horticultural Society 326 



Detroit Florists' Club 326 



Gardeners' Club of Baltimore 327 



Club and Society Notes 327 



MECHANICAL WATERING FOR GREENHOUSES— 

 Louis Wittbold 327 



THE ROSE— Neil McCallum 



ROSE WELLESLEY— Illustration 



RED AND DARK RED HYBRID TEAS. 

 HII.L SEEDLING, Al— Illustration 



f age 

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HOUSE OF AMERICAN BEAUTY AT SCARBOR- 

 OUGH. N. Y 329 



CUT FLOWER MARKET REPORTS 



Twin Cities. Louisville 330 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Columbus, Detroit. Phil- 

 adelphia, New York, San Francisco 335 



OBITUARY 



George Norman, Henry Knott, James Clark, J. C. 

 Rennison. .1. C. Gardiner. Ferd. Boulon, Henry 



C. Beebe 332 



Portrait. Late F. W. Ritter 332 



SEED TRADE TOPICS 



Seedsmen at Washington — G. C. Watson 340 



"Wanting the Pie and the Penny, too"— G. C. W. . . 340 



To Nurserymen. Plant Growers and Seedsmen.... 340 



Philadelphia Seed Notes 340, 



Catalogues Received , 340 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Dean Hole's Tribute to the Rose 323 



Protect the Birds 323 



Ten Best Climbing Roses— M. H. Wa'sh 323 



To Exterminate the Codlin Moth 323 



Personal 323 



Business Changes 327 



Plant Notes 327 



News Notes 330 



Philadelphia Notes 338 



A Florist's Window in Wint >r 338 



Fire Record 348 



California Notes 348 



Greenhouses Building and Projet ted 348 



List of Patents 348 



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