HORTICULTURE 



VOL IV 



SEPTEMBER 15, 1906 



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CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE 



Page. 



FRONTISPIECE— John Westcott 



MUSA • SAPIENTUM— Thomas White— Illustrated 285 



CHRYSANTHEMUMS— Wm. A. Riggs 285 



ROSE HOUSE WISDOM— R. T. McGorum 286 



RODRIGUEZIA VENUSTA— James Hutchinson— Illus. 280 

 NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



Pittsburg and Allegheny Florists' and Gardeners' 



Club 287 



Canadian Horticultural Association 287 



Columbus Florists' Club 287 



American Institute 287 



Massachusetts Horticultural Society 287 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston 287 



New Danlia Society Launched 287 



New York Florists' Club 290 



New Jersey Floricultural Society 290 



Chrysanthemum Society of America 290 



American Carnation Society 290 



EDITORIAL 



The violet outlook— New dust-laying process— 

 The parcels post movement — A word for the 



judges 288 



AFTER ADJOURNMENT 289 



Page. 



OBITUARY 



George W. Patten, portrait— Marshall Ward- 

 Charles Baron Clarke 289 



JOHN WESTCOTT— George C. Watson 289 



SEED TRADE : 292 



Hjalmar Hartmann, portrait 293 



American Seed Trade Association 293 



CUT FLOWER MARKET REPORTS 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus, 

 Louisville, New York 295 



DURING RECESS 



Buffalo Florists' Club Outing 295 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Newport Notes 289 



Home Made Weed Killer 



South Shore Doings— G. H. Higgins. 



Messrs. Gude See the Far West 



Cleveland Notes 



An Experimental Rural Parcels Post 

 A Valuable Report on Soil Fertility 



289 

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 290 

 290 

 293 

 293 



A Good Fertilizer 301 



News Notes 



301 



Incorporated ^01 



COLORED SUPPLEMENT WITH NEXT ISSUE. 



Subject— PANSIES. ^^ 



LOCAL REPRESENTATIVES 



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

 CLEVELAND, 0.— A. L. Hutchins, 2220 East 74th St. 

 COLUMBUS, 0.— 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. 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— James J. Harty, 14th and H 

 Streets, N. W. 



