HORTICULTURE 



VOL IV 



AUGUST 18, 1906 



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CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE 



Page 



FRONTISPIECE— Iris Kaempfeii 



RANDOM REFLECTIONS AND REMINISCENCES— 

 Uncle John Thorpe 155 



THE ELM LEAF BEETLE— R. L. Adams 157 



DO ORCHID ROOTS GATHER VAPOR OP WATER 

 FROM AIR— R. G. Leavitt 158 



PYRUS MALUS HALLIANA OR PARKMANI— Illus. 159 



THE RETAIL FLORIST IN THE FLOWER SHOW— 

 George Asmus 159 



PHLOXES— John Thorpe 160 



A PROBLEM FOR ROSE GROWERS— Alex Mont- 

 gomery, Jr 161 



EDITORIAL 



The abundant rains — About phloxes — Gardening 

 taste in England — The S. A. F. moves on — Wliere 

 are our gardeners to come from 162 



A MODERN FLORIST— T. D. Hatfield 163 



A FINE STRAWBERRY FIELD— Illustrated 163 



CONVENTION TOPICS 



Dayton Is All Ready 164 



Philadelphia Notes 164 



Some Dayton Back Yards — Illustrated 164 



Officers of the S. A. F. and Dayton Florists' Club 



— Portraits 165 



Map of Dayton 167 



NEWS OF THE CLBUS AND SOCIETIES 



Newport Horticultural Society 166 



Florists' Club of Washington 166 



Nassau County Horticultural Society 166 



Buffalo Florists' Club 166 



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NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Continued 



Columbus Florists' Club 170 



Toledo Florists' Club 170 



Elberon Horticultural Society 170 



St. Louis Florists' Club 170 



OBITUARY 



James Hartshorne — Portrait 170 



Abram Block 170 



DURING RECESS 



George Anderson — Portrait 172 



Dr. George Goebel — Portrait 172 



Springfield Florists' Club 172 



CUT FLOWER MARKET REPORTS 



Boston, Buffalo, Columbus, Louisville, New York, 

 Philadelphia 177 



SEED TRADE 183 



Market for .\merican Seeds 183 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Our Frontispiece 163 



Latest Varieties of Heliotropes— Translated by 



G. Bleicken 163 



Robert Craig — Portrait 170 



Personal 170 



California Notes 173 



A Philadelphia Consolidation 177 



Business Changes 177 



A New Fibre Plant 184 



Greenhouses Building and Projected 185 



Incorporated i- ■ 1^5 



A Return Trap for Greenhouses 186 



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CARNATIONS. 



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