HORTICULTURE 



VOL III 



MARCH 31, 1906 



NO. 13 



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CONTENTS OF THIS 



Page 

 FRONTISPIECE— View of American Rose Society's 

 Exhibition 



STREPTOCARPUS WEN DLANDI I— Alfred J. Love- 

 less—Illustrated 395 



ECHOES FROM ENGLAND— H. H. Thomas 395 



ONCIDIUM CRISPUM— M. J. Pope— Illustrated 396 



DO VARIETIES DETERIORATE?— George Moore... 396 

 CATTLEYA WARSEWICZII— James Hutchinson— 



Illustrated 397 



EDITORIAL 398 



WHOLESOME CHESTNUTS 399 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



The American Carnation Society 399 



Philadelphia Spring Show 399 



Florists' Club of Philadelphia 399 



Toledo Florists' Club 399 



Detroit Florists' Club 399 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY 



Officers Elected ton 



President-elect Robert Simpson — Portrait 40(1 



The Exhibition toil 



List of Awards for Roses 401 



Rose Queen Beatrice — Illustration 401 



Annual Meeting 402 



ISSUE 



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AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY (Continued). 



President's Address 402 



Secretary's Report 403 



Secretary-elect Benj. Hammond — Portrait 403 



Treasurer's Report 404 



The Mail Order Trade— Paper by P. J. Lynch 404 



P. .1. Lynch— Portrait 404 



Group of Rambler Roses by M. H. Walsh— [litis. . . 405 

 The Deterioration of Forcing Roses — Paper by A. 



Farenwald 405 



The Banquet 406 



MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 



Spring Exhibition 402 



List of Awards 402 



CUT FLOWER MARKET REPORTS 



Boston, Chicago. Columbus, Detroit, Louisville. 



New York, Twin Cities 445 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Obituary 399 



San Francisco Notes 408 



Fire Record 408 



List of Patents 408 



News Notes 409 



Business Changes 415 



The Glass Situation 421 



Easter Number with Colored Supplement Next Week. 



LOCAL REPRESENTATIVES 



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CHICAGO, ILL.— R. S. Lund, 1031 W. Monroe St. MONTREAL— William Cooper, 568 St Paul St. 



CLEVELAND, O.— A. L. Hutchins, 38 Plymouth St. NEWPORT, R. I.— David Mcintosh, Ledge Road. 



COLUMBUS, O.— M. B. Faxon, s22 E. Broad St. PHILADELPHIA. PA.— George C. Watson, 1614 Ludlow 



CINCINNATI, O.— Frank W. Ba.l, 818 E. 3rd Street. St. 



DETROIT— C. B. Chase, 59 Mian. i Ave. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.— Luther Monnette, 1100 Van 



INDIANAPOLIS, IND. — George Wiegand, 1610 N. Illi- Ness Av. 



nois St. WASHINGTON D C— James J. Harty. 14th and H 



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