HORTICULTURE 



VOL II 



DECEMBER 30, 1905 



NO. 27 



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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— Specimen Chrysanthemums 



THE AMERICAN BEAUTY— Wm. Scott 703 



THE POINSETTIA— F. W. Ball 703 



RHODODENDRONS— George Moore 704 



A ROSE HOUSE REVERIE— R. T. McGorum. . 705 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett. . . . 705 



EDITORIAL 706 



AFTER ADJOURNMENT 707 



WHAT THEY SAY OF US 707 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



Newport Horticultural Society 708 



Toledo Florists' Chib 708 



American Carnation Society 708 



PLANT GROUP AT LENOX, MASS.— Illus- 

 tration 708 



BANQUET TO THEODORE WIRTH 708 



CUT FLOWER AND PLANT MARKET 

 REPORTS 



Cincinnati, Montreal, Newport, Toledo 710 



Page 



CUT FLOWER AND PLANT MARKET RE- 

 PORTS— ( Continued ) 



Boston, New York, Philadelphia 713 



Miscellaneous Notes 711 



SEED TRADE NOTES 718 



Catalogues Received 718 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Chrysanthemum Garza — Illustration 707 



Personal 707 



Don't 707 



Our Frontispiece 707 



Cypripedium insigne 707 



Obituary 707 



Publications Received 710 



Philadelphia Notes 711 



Fire Record 718 



List of Patents 718 



Business Changes 718 



Greenhouses Building and Projected 718 



Pacific Coast Notes 718 



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. Illi- 

 nois St. 

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

 MONTREAL— William Cooper, 568 St. Paul St. 



LOCAL REPRESENTATIVES 



NEWPORT, R. 1. — David Mcintosh, Ledge Road. 

 PHILADELPHIA, PA.— George C. Watson, 1614 Ludlow 



St. 

 SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.— Luther Monnette, 1100 Van 



Ness Av. 

 WASHINGTON, D. C— Z. D. srackistone, 14th and H 



Streets, N. W. 



