HORTICULTURE 



VOL IV 



JULY 7. 1906 



NO. 1 



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CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE 



Page 



FRONTISPIECE— Rhotloflendrons at Welleslev 



AZALEA AMOENA— W. H. Waite— Illustrated 5 



RHODODENDRONS AT WELLESLEY— T. D. Hatfield. 5 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett 6 



PHOENIX ROBELENI— A. Dimmock 6 



F. R. PIERSON COMPANY NURSERIES— Illustrated. . 7 



ONCIDIUM SPHACELATUM— J. Hutchinson 7 



EDITORIAL 



Looking ahead — At a standstill — Peony nomen- 

 clature — Midsummer madness — "For a desperate 

 disease a desperate cure" — A word to Horticul- 

 ture's friends 8 



PLANT NOTES AT MEDPORD— T. D. Hatfield 9 



A VISIT TO WM. SIMS' GREENHOUSES— Illustrated 9 

 NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



Masachusetts Horticultural Society 10 



Dayton, Ohio 10 



. Exhibition at New Bedford 10 



Tri-City Florists' Club '. 10 



North Shore Horticultural Society 10 



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NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— (Continued) 



Lenox Horticltural Society 10 



Society of American Florists 10 



Club and Society Notes 10 



DURING RECESS 



A Philadelphia Celebrity— G. C. W.— Illustrated. 11 

 New York Florists' Picnic 11 



CUT FLOWER MARKET REPORTS 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Columbus, Louisville, 

 New Y'ork, Philadelphia, San Francisco 15 



SEED TRADE TOPICS 



American Seed Trade Association 21 



The Onion Seed Crop 21 



Seed Trade Notes 21 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Philadelphia Notes 15 



Nashua, N. H., News 21 



Catalogues Received ■. 21 



News Notes 21 



Greenhouses Building and Projected 21 



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