HORTICULTURE 



VOL. II JULY 29, 1905 NO. 5 



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CONTENTS or THIS ISSUE 



Pace 



FRONTISPIECE — Sweet Pea Mont Blanc NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



American Pomological Society 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS, ENTER- 

 TAINMENT AT WASHINGTON 



National Horticultural Council 1 1 1 



Newport Horticultural Society 1 1 1 



WREATH OF SWEET PEAS ~ Illustrated ... 107 Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston 113 



PLATEAU OF PLANTS AND FLOWERS — Illus- Fun and Frolic at Montreal 113 



trated — H. H. Battles 108 



A DAY AMONG THE SWEET PEAS — G. C. 



THE HARDY FLOWER GARDEN — T.D. Hatfield 108 WATSON — Illustrated 114 



ECHOES FROM ENGLAND - Harry H. Thomas . ^09 ^^^.p^owER MARKET REPORTS 

 GROUP OF NYMPH^AS — Illustration .... 109 Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Louisville, Philadel- 

 phia, St. Louis 117 



PANDANUS SANDERS AT NEWPORT EXHIBI- '^ 



TION- Illustration 109 MISCELLANEOUS 



EDITORIAL no Personal in 



A SAN FRANCISCO MOVEMENT in The Late Louis Siebrecht — Portrait in 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS AND OR- 

 NAMENTAL HORTICULTURISTS 

 Program and Prospectus of the Washington Con- 

 vention 



Obituary ni 



Philadelphia News Notes 115 



Business Changes 117 



News Notes 117 



LOCAL CORRESPONDENTS 



BUFFALO, N Y. - E. C Brucker, 385-87 EUicott St. LOUISVILLE, KY. - F. L. Schulz, Jr., 1325 Cherokee Road 



CHICAGO, ILL. — Fred Lautenschlager, 2597 N.RidgewayAv. MONTREAL — Edgar Elvin, 136 Peel St. 



CINCINNATI, 0.- Albert J. Gray, 129 E. 3d St. NEWPORT, R. I. - David Mcintosh, Ledge Road 



CLEVELAND, O. - A. L. Hutchins, 38 Plymouth St. PHILADELPHIA, PA. - George C. Watson, 1614 Ludlow 

 DENVER, COLO. — N. A. Benson, 1352 So. Sherman Ave. Street. .„ t t ,. . -nr u . c» 



INDIANAPOLIS, IND. - George B. Wiegand, 1610 N. Illi- PROVIDENCE, R. I. - T J. Johnston, 171 Weybosset St. 



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