HORTICULTURE 



VOL III 



JUNE 23, 1906 



NO. 25 



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CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE 



Page 

 FRONTISPIECE— A Model Flower Store 



THE TEMPLE SHOW— H. H. Thomas t 7S5 



SHOW PELARGONIUMS FOR COMMERCIAL PUR- 

 POSES— James Stuart 786 



ROSE MME. NORBERT LEVAVASSEUR— E. 0. Orpet.786 



EXPERIENCE WITH PEONY LADY ALEXANDRA 



DUFF— E. J. Shaylor 7S7 



AGAPANTHUS UMBELLATUS— K. Finlayson 787 



EDITORIAL 



A national arboretum — Keeping peony flowers — 



Gardening art — Wherein we lack 788 



CONCERNING LANDSCAPE ART— R. T. McGorum.. 789 



PLANT NOTES 789 



OBITUARY 



Edwin B. Hay— Frank C. Moninger 789 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston 790 



American Rose Society 790 



Lenox Horticultural Society 790 



Massachusetts Horticultural Society 790,792 



American Peony Society 790 



Nassau County Horticultural Society 791 



Society of American Florists 791 



Society for Horticultural Science 791 



Morris County Gardeners' and Florists' Society... 791 



Page 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— (Continued) 



American Association of Nurserymen 792 



American Association of Park Superintendent.'. 

 President-elect, Byron D. Worthen; portrait. 

 Secretary-treasurer-elect, F. L. Mulford; portrait 792 



Elberon Horticultural Society 792 



Chrysanthemum So.iety of America . 792 



An Outing at Cincinnati 793 



Club and Society Notes 793 



THEORIES AND FACTS IN PLANT BREEDING— 

 N. B. White "93 



SEED TRADE 796 



CUT FLOWER MARKET REPORTS 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago 799 



Columbus, Cincinnati, Louisville, New York, 

 Philadelphia : g 5 



THE BREITMEYER FLOWER STORE— Illustrated, 

 S. S. Skidelsky "99 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Business Changes 789 



Fire Record 793 



Newport Plant Notes 794 



News Notes 794 



List of Patents 796 



Philadelphia Notes— G. C. W 797 



Greenhouses Building and Projected 805 



LOCAL REPRESENTATIVES 



BUFFALO, N. Y.— E. C. Brucker, 385-87 Ellicott St. 

 CHICAGO, ILL.— R. S. Lund, 1034 W. Monroe St. 

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

 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. Wiegand, 1610 N. Illi- 

 nois St. 

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



MONTREAL— William Cooper, 568 St. Paul St. 



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



PHILADELPHIA, PA. — George C. Watson, Dobson 

 Bldg., 9th and Market St. 



SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. — Luther Monnette, 866 Isa- 

 bella St., Oakland, Cal. 



TOLEDO, O. — J. L. Schiller, 929 Prouty Ave. 



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

 Streets, N. W. 



