HORTICULTURE 



VOL III 



JUNE 2, 1906 



NO. 22 



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CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE 



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FRONTISPIECE— Peony Festiva Maxima 



DWARF PEACH TREES— F. A. Waugh— Illustrated . . 703 



ECHOES FROM ENGLAND— II. H. Thomas To:; 



THE COLUMBINES— Warren J. Chandler 704 



TRACHELOSPERMCM JASMINOIDES— K. Finlayson 705 



ROCKERIES— Charles Ingram 705 



EDITORIAL 



Prosperity in the nursery trade — The great floral 

 holiday — The peony — The Boston gardeners are 



admonished 706 



AFTER ADJOURNMENT 707 



WHOLESALE CHESTNUTS TUT 



OBITUARY 707 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



Newport Horticultural Society 708 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston 70S 



Massachusetts Horticultural Society 70S 



American Seed Trade Association 708 



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Club and Society Notes 70S 



FERTILIZATION OF SPRUCE AND WILLOW— R. G. 



Leavitt— Illustrated 709 



SEED TRADE TOSH'S 712 



Johnson & Stokes Part Company 713 



CUT FLOWER MARKET REPORTS 



Boston, Buffalo, Columbus, Louisville, New York.. 715 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Toiedo Enterprise 707 



News Notes 707 



The Inconsistency of Judges — Elizabeth Drake.... TOT 



Personal TOT 



Peony Notes— G. C. Watson 70S 



Philadelphia Notes T0S 



Catalogues Received ,713 



San Francisco Notes 715 



i : reenhouses Building and Projected Tl!l 



SUPPLEMENT WITH THIS ISSUE 



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 COLUMBUS, O. — M. B. Faxon, 322 E. Broad St. 

 CINCINNATI, O. — Frank W. Ball, Walnut Hills. 

 DETROIT — C. B. Chase, 59 Miami Ave. 

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

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