HORTICULTURE 



VOL IV 



AUGUST 11, 1906 



NO. 6 



PUBLISHED ■Weekly by 



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CONTENTS OF 



Page 

 FRONTISPIECE— A Bed of Succulents. 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett 127 



EDITORIAL. 



Support the S. A. F. — The floodtide of prosper- 

 ity—Watch out for HORTICULTURE'S adver- 

 tisers next week — The "black rot" among the 



violets 128 



SWEET PEA REVIEW FOR 1906— G. C. Watson 129 



SWEET PEAS IX WINTER— Wm. Sim 129 



THE HICKORY TUSSOCK MOTH— R. L. Adams 129 



CONVENTION TOPICS. 



The Program in Brief 130 



Concerning Your Arrival in Dayton 130 



Florist Club of Philadelphia 131 



Convention Sports 131 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES. 



New Jersey Floricultural Society 131 



American Rose Society 131 



Massachusetts Horticultural Society 132 



Society of American Florists 132 



THIS ISSUE 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES (Continued) 

 Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston — Illustra- 



. tion 132 



Omaha Florists' Club Outing — Illustration 135 



SEED TRADE TOPICS 132 



CUT FLOWER MARKET REPORTS. 



Boston. Buffalo. Chicago, Columbus. Louisville, 

 New York. Philadelphia. San Francisco 135 



OBITUARY 



James Weir. Jr. — Portrait 141 



Alexander Emslie 141 



James N. Bishop 141 



MISCELLANEOUS 



A Warning About Sheep Manure 133 



Business Changes 133 



Philadelphia Notes 141 



San Francisco Notes 141 



Catalogues Received 141 



Incorporated -. 142 



Greenhouses Building and Projected 142 



News Notes 142 



NEXT ISSUE CONVENTION SPECIAL 



With Colored Supplement — Subject, Carnations 



LOCAL REPRESENTATIVES 



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

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

 CLEVELAND, O.— A. L. Hutchins, 2220 East 74th St. 

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

 CINCINNATI, 0.— Frank W. Ball, Walnut Hills. 

 DETROIT— C. B. Chase, 59 Miami Ave. 

 INDIANAPOLIS, IND.— George B. Wlegand, 1610 N. Illl- 



nolt 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— James J. Harty, 14th and H 

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