HORTICULTURE 



VOL II 



DECEMBER 23, 1905 



NO. 26 



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Entered as second-class matter December 8, 1904, at the Post Office at Boston, Mass., under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. 



CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE 



Page 



FRONTISPIECE— Carnation Victory 



HORTICULTURE— W. R. Gilbert (379 



DEATH OF HENRY ECKFORD— W. H. A. . . BTO 

 DENDROBIUM PHALAENOPSIS SCHROE- 



DERIANUj\I— Edgar Elvin G80 



EVERGREENS FOR WINDOAV BOXES— 



Warren J. Chandler GSO 



ECHOES FROM ENGLAND — Harry 11. 



Thomas G81 



EDITORIAL 682 



CHRYSANTHEMUM NORMA— UlustrattMl .. 083 

 POETRY— '-A Chri.stnia.- Carmen"— Jolm G. 



Whittier 683 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston. . . . 684 



Massachusetts Horticultural Society 68-1 



American Association of Park Sui>eriiit('iul- 



ents GS-^ 



Elberon Horticultural Soricty 684 



Morris County Gardeners' and Florists 



Society 684 



State Horticultural Society of Maryland 684 



St. Louis Florists" Cluli .' 684 



Page 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— (Continued) 



Banquet for Carnation Society 684 



Leuo.x Horticultural Society 685 



Society of American Florists 685 



Club and Society Notes 685 



CUT FLOWER MARKET REPORTS 



Boston, Buffalo, Louisville, New York, Phila- 

 delphia, Toledo 689 



:\IISCELLANEOUS 



Oliituarv 683 



Personal 683 



Gypsy .Moth Warfare 683 



Pacific Coast Notes 686 



Philadelphia Notes 687 



A Baltimore Eutrrprisr 687 



Nursery Rates IJc.liucI 687 



Wholesale Quotations on Cliristmas Plants. . 689 



News Notes 689 



Fires 689 



Business Changes 694 



Seed Trade 694 



Greenhouses Building and Projected 694 



Cataloaues Received : . . 694 



List of Patents 694 



BUFFALO, N. Y.— E. C. Brucker, 385-87 Ellicott St. 

 CHICAGO, ILL.— E. W. D. Laufer, 2327 N. Leavitt St. 

 CLEVELAND, O.— A. L. Hutchins, 38 Plymouth St. 

 CINCINNATI, O.— Albert J. Gray, 129 E. Third St. 

 INDIANAPOLIS, IND.— George B. WIegand, 1610 N. MM 

 nols St. 



LOCAL REPRESENTATIVES 



NEWPORT, R. I 

 PHILADELPHIA, PA, 



St. 

 SAN FRANCISCO, CAL 



Ness Av. 



David Mcintosh, Ledge Road. 



George C. Watson, 1614 Ludlow 



-Luther Monnette, 1100 Van 



LOUISVILLE, KY.— F. L. Schuiz, Jr., 1325 Cherokee Rd. 

 MONTREAL— William Cooper, 568 SL Paul St. 



D. C. — Z. D. Blackistone, 14th and H 



