HORTICULTURE 



VOL III 



APRIL 7, 1906 



NO. 14 



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CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE 



Page 



FRONTISPIECE— Easter. 1906 



PRIMULA OBCONICA GRANDIFLORA— O. V. Zan- 



gen, Illus 437 



GARDEN CULTURE OF SWEET PEAS— M. B. Faxon 438 

 THE EEL WORM QUESTION— Alex. Montgomery. Jr. 43S 

 CYPR1PEDIUM CAUDATUM— Alfred J. Loveless. Illus. 439 



PHAIUS GRANDIFLORUM— Robert Cameron 439 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett 440 



BUDDLEIAS— H. H. Thomas 441 



MOVING LARGE EVERGREENS— David Mcintosh... 441 



EDITORIAL 442 



OLD FOGIES— Kenneth Finlayson 443 



MORE ABOUT MECHANICAL WATERING — Louis 



Wittbold 443 



A FEW MORE WORDS ABOUT MECHANICAL 



WATERING — Chas. Ingram 443 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



Philadelphia Spring Show — Edwin Lonsdale 444 



Society of American Florists 444 



Columbus Florists' Club 444 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston 444 



Visitors at W. W. Edgar Co.'s — Illustration 444 



Pittsburg and Allegheny Florists' and Gardeners' 



Club 444 



Club and Society Notes 445 



Spring Exhibition of Massachusetts Horticultural 



Society — Illustrations 445 



Executive Committee of S. A. F.. at Dayton — 



Illustration 454 



ROSE GROWING FOR CUT FLOWERS— J. J. Curran 445 

 SOLUBLE FERTILIZERS— Dudley Malcolm Pray. 

 Portrait 44 , 



Page 

 THE RETAILERS' PART IN INTRODUCTION OF 



NEW ROSES — George Asmus— Portrait 449 



EASTER PLANTS IN NEW YORK MARKET 449 



PLANTS AND BULBS MOST IN DEMAND FOR 



EASTER TRADE— David Lumsden 452 



DENDROBIUM DOM1NIANUM— H. A. Siebrecht— 



Illustrated 453 



SEASONABLE PREPARATIONS FOR EASTER 



TRADE — Hugo Schroeter 453 



THE CARNATION— A. H. Seekers 455 



ROSE FRAU KARL DRUSCHKI— Illustration 456 



CARNATION NOTES— Jos. F. Klimmer 457 



EASTER PLANTS — Robert Craig 463 



CUT FLOWER MARKET REPORTS 



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

 ville. Minneapolis. New York. Philadelphia 465 



Indianapolis 4 1 1 



STOCK BEAUTY OF NICE— Louis J. Reuter— 



Illustrated 471 



A VACUUM SYSTEM IN GREENHOUSE HEATING 



— Frank A. Simonds 471 



MISCELLANEOUS 



The Coming of the Daffodils— Alfred Austin 443 



Personal ^43 



Obituary 449 



News Notes • 4 54 



San Francisco Notes 454 



Business Changes 454 



Seed Trade 459 



Catalogues Received 459 



The Glass Situation 471 



List of Patents 471 



Greenhouses Building and Projected 472 



LOCAL REPRESENTATIVES 



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CHICAGO, ILL.— R. S. Lund, 1034 W. Monroe St. MONTREAL— William Cooper, 568 St. Paul St. 



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



COLUMBUS, O.— M. B. Faxon, 322 E. Broad St PHILADELPHIA, PA.— George C. Watson, 1614 Ludlow 



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



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



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



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