HORTICULTURE 



VOL IV 



JULY 28. 1906 



NO. 4 



Published Weekly by 



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CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE 



Page 



P^RONTISPIECE— A Wedding Decoration 



FLOWER GARDEN ARRANGEMENT— T. D. Hat- 

 field — Illustrated 77 



HORTICULTURE IN BOSTON— James MacPherson. 7S 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett 79 



EDITORIAL 



Ornamental Horticulture in the West — The 

 gardener in landscape art — Relief from brown- 

 tail moths — Working for a trustworthy nomencla- 

 ture 80 



AFTER ADJOURNMENT 81 



CONVENTION TOPICS 



The Souvenir Book 81 



Cincinnati to Dayton 81 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



Massachusetts Horticultural Society 82 



St. Louis Florists' Club 82 



Tarrytown Horticultural Society 82 



Chrysanthemum Society of America 82 



Columbus Florists' Club 82 



Nebraska State Horticultural Society 82 



North Shore Horticultural Society 82 



Hartford Florists' Club 82 



SEED TRADE TOPICS 83 



Page 

 CUT FLOWER MARKET REPORTS 



Boston. Buffalo. Chicago, Columbus, Indianapolis, 



Louisville, New York, Philadelphia 87 



DURING RECESS 



Picnic of the Gardeners' and Florists' Club of 



Boston 93 



Outing of the Cincinnati Florists 93 



Philadelphia Diversions 93 



Pittsburg Florists' Club Picnic 93 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Personal ' 81 



Philadelphia Personals 81 



Montreal Notes 81 



California Notes 81 



Newport Notes 81 



A Wedding Decoration 81 



Obituary ■ 81 



News Notes 82 



Farm and Garden Seeds in Manchuria 87 



Morris County (N, J.) Notes 87 



Incorporated 93 



Greenhouses Building and Projected 94 



List of Patents 94 



Catalogues Received 94 



LOCAL REPRESENTATIVES 



BUFFALO, N. "V. — E. C. Brucker, 385-87 Elllcott St. 

 CHICAGO, ILL.— R. S. Lund, 1034 W. Monroe St. 

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

 COLUMBUS, O. — M. B. Faxon, 322 E. Broad St. 

 CINCINNATI, O.— Frank W. Ball, Walnut Hills. 

 DETROIT — C. B. Chase, 59 Miami Ave. 

 INDIANAPOLIS, IND.— George B. Wiegand, 1610 N. Illi- 

 nois St. 

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



MONTREAL — William Cooper, 338 St. James St. 



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



PHILADELPHIA, PA. — George C. Watson, Dobson 

 BIdg., 9th and Market St, 



SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.— Luther Monnette, 866 Isa- 

 bella St,, Oakland, Cal. 



TOLEDO, O, — J, L. Schiller, 929 Prouty Ave. 



WASHINGTON, D. C. — lames J. Harty, 14th and H 

 Streets, N. W. 



