HORTICULTURE 



VOL III 



APRIL 28, 1906 



NO. 17 



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CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE 



Page 

 DENDROBIUMS WARDIANUM AND SUPERBUM 



DEARII— M. J. Pope— Illustrated 547 



SPRING FLOWERING DENDROBIUMS— Edgar Elvin 547 

 BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett— Illustrated 548 



ORNAMENTAL VINES— Edgar Elvin 549 



LACHENALIAS— Robert Cameron— Illustrated 550 



ACACIAS— Kenneth Finlayson 550 



CULTURE OF THE CYCLAMEN— James Stuart 551 



EDITORIAL 552 



AN EXHIBITOR'S GRIEVANCE— A. H. Fewkes 553 



WHOLESOME CHESTNUTS 553 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



Rhode Island Horticultural Society 554 



Columbus Florists' Club 554 



Society ot American Florists 554 



Morris County Gardeners' and Florists' Society.. 554 



Newport Horticultural Society 554 



Horticultural Society of New York 555 



Detroit Florists' Club 555 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston 555 



CIVIC IMPROVEMENT THROUGH PRIVATE EN- 

 TERPRISE— Illustrated 555 



MECHANICAL WATERING EXPLAINED— Louis 



Wittbold 556 



Page 

 MORE ABOUT MECHANICAL WATERING— R. T. 



McGorum 556 



ODONTOGLOSSUM CRISPUM PITTIANUM— Illus- 

 trated 561 



CUT FLOWER MARKET REPORTS 



Boston, Cincinnati, Columbus, Detroit, Louisville, 



Philadelphia 563 



EASTER REPORTS RECEIVED LATE 



Buffalo, Detroit, Indianapolis, Twin Cities 569 



MISCELLANEOUS 



"Makes the Whole World Kin" 553 



Personal 553 



A School Garden Institute 556 



An Outdoor Class 556 



Publications Received 559 



Seed Trade 559 



Incorporated 559 



Obituary 560 



In Memoriam — Count Oswald de Kerchove de 



Denterghem — C. Harrnan Payne 560 



Progress at Baltimore 561 



Business Changes 563 



Greenhouses Building and Projected 569 



List of Patents 569 



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