HORTICULTURE 



VOL III 



APRIL 14. 1906 



NO. 15 



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CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE 



Page 



FRONTISPIECE— A House of Longifloiums 

 ACROSTYCHUM AND PLATYCERIUM— A. Hans- 

 Illustrated 483 



THE DETERIORATION OF VARIETIES— Anne Dor- 



rance 484 



CLEMATIS DA VIDIANA— Illustrated 485 



LATHYRUS PUBESCENS— Carl Blomberg 485 



THOSE MOTH PESTS— R. L. Adams 486 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett 486 



PRIMULAS— George Morrison ■ 487 



FUCHSIAS AT PHILADELPHIA— Edwin Lonsdale... 487 



EDITORIAL 488 



AFTER ADJOURNMENT 489 



AN EXHIBITOR'S GRIEVANCE— John McFarland... 489 



WHOLESOME CHESTNUTS 489 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



New York Florists' Club 490 



New Jersey Floricultural Society 490 



Society of American Florists 490 



Lenox Horticultural Society 490 



Detroit Florists' Club 490 



Nassau County Horticultural Society 490 



New Bedford Horticultural Society 491 



Columbus Florists' Club 491 



Club and Society Notes 491 



Page 



OBITUARY 



Thomas Devoy (Portrait), August Rhotert, An- 

 drew Nixon, Caleb H. Parker 491 



ROSES — Benjamin Dorrance 492 



HOUSE OF CHRYSANTHEMUMS— Illustrated 493 



MECHANICAL WATERING 



A Proposition — R. T. McGorum 494 



A Suggestion — Louis Wittbold 494 



GREENHOUSES AT OCHRE COURT, NEWPORT... 494 



CUT FLOWER MARKET REPORTS 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia 499 

 Columbus, Louisville, Minneapolis, Easter Pros- 

 pects at Newport 505 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Personal 489 



Toledo Notes .' 489 



Publications Received 491 



American Vines Shut Out 493 



News Notes 495 



Philadelphia Notes 496 



California Notes 497 



Business Changes 499 



Larceny of Colic 505 



A Cyaniding Device 505 



Catalogues Received 505 



Greenhouses Building and Projected 505 



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