HORTICULTURE 



VOL II 



DECEMBER 16, 1905 



NO. 25 



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CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE 



Page 



FRONTISPIECE— Ficus Bed at Botanic Garden, 

 "Washington 



THE HORTICULTURAL RITES OF CHRISTMAS 



— Louis C. Elson ■ G49 



A FEW OF VEITCH'S RECENT INTRODUC- 

 TIONS FROM NORTHERN CHINA— .T. A. 



Pettigrew JP • ^*^ 



CHRYSANTHEMUM TOPICS— C. Harman Payne. 650 



PLANTS HARDY AND TENDER— W. R. Gilbert. . 651 



HINTS ON BOILERS AND HEATING 651 



EDITORIAL 652 



OUT OF THE BEAN POD— R. T. McGoriim 653 



OUR FRONTISPIECE 653 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



New York Florists' Club 654 



Nassau County Horticultural Society 654 



Montreal Gardeners' and Florists' Club 654 



Newport Horticultural Society 654 



New Bedford Horticultural Society 654 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston 655 



Club and Society Notes 655 



JOHN SCOTT— Portrait 655 



THE FLORA OF HAWAII— Geo. Morrison- 

 trated 



OBITUARY 658 



CUT FLOWER MARKET REPORTS 



Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, 

 Louisville, Minneapolis, New York, Philadel- 



. phia 663 



MISCELLANEOUS 



After Adjournment 653 



Ellen Weiss: An Appreciation — G. C. Watson. 653 



Chrysanthemum Scraps 653 



San Francisco Notes 655 



Seed Trade 655 



Philadelphia Notes 655 



Building in Montreal 655 



The Postal Progress League 657 



Personal 657 



House of Cattleya labiata — Illustration 658 



New Fuel from Petroleum 658 



Carnation Morsels 660 



Business Changes 667 



Cincinnati Parks 667 



Greenhouses Building or Projected 670 



New Publications 670 



Li.st of Patents 670 



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