HORTICULTURE 



VOL IV 



OCTOBER 13, 1906 



FUBLISHCD "WEtKLY BY 



HORTICULTURE PUBLISHING CO. 



11 Hamilton Place, Boston. Mass. 



Telsphone. Oxford 292 



"WM. J. STE'WART. EDITOR and Manage!* 



SUBSCBIPTION PBICE 



One Year, in advance . 

 To Foreign Countries 

 Single Copies 



li.oo 



2.0O 



•as 



NET 



NO. 15 



9 



ADVERTISING KATES 



Pbr Inch, 30 inches to page . 



Full Page 



On Yearly Contract — 52 consecutive 



times — psrinch, .70. Per page . 20.00 



.QO 



24.00 



COPYRIOHT, 1906, BY HORTICULTURE PUB. CO. 



Encered as second-class matter December 8, 1904, at the Post Office at Boston, Mass., under the Act o( Congress of March 3, iSy^. 



CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE 



Page. 

 FRONTISPIECE— A New York Flower Store 



PLANT TISSUES— R. W. Curtis 391 



CLEMATIS HERACLEIFOLIA STANS— Prof. F. A. 



Waugh 391 



EDITORIAL 



Automobiling affects flower-buying — Nurserymen 

 building wisely for the future^Our frontispiece 

 and its lesson — The "fall opening" as a business 



starter 392 



THREE GOOD DAHLIAS— Illustrated 393 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



New London County Horticultural Society 393 



New Jersey Floricultural Society 394 



Pittsburg and Allegheny Florists' and Gardeners' 



Club 394 



Columbus Florists' Club 394 



Massachusetts Horticultural Society 394 



Elberon Horticultural Society 394 



Page. 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— (Continued) 



New York Florists' Club 396 



St. Louis Coming to the Front 395 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston 395 



SEED TRADE TOPICS 396 



The New Thorburn Seed Warehouse — Illustrated. 396 

 One hundred and Sixty Acres of Sweet Peas 397 



CUT FLOWER MARKET REPORTS 



Boston, Buffalo, Columbus, Indianapolis, Louis- 

 ville, New York, Philadelphia 399 



OBITUARY 



Patrick J. Donohue, Portrait — Isaac P. Dickinson. 405 



MISCELLANEOUS 



California Notes " 393 



Philadelphia Notes 393 



Personal 393 



Incorporated 405 



News Notes <06 



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, 246 Oak St. 

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

 DETROIT, MICH. — Frank Danzer, 1487 Fifteenth St. 

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



Illinois 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 0. Watson, Dobson 



BIdg., 9th and Market St. 

 SAN FRANCISCO. CAL. — Luther Monnette, 866 Isabella 



St., Oakland. Cal. 

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

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



Streets. N. W. 



