HORTICULTURE 



VOL IV 



OCTOBER 20, 1906 



NO. 16 



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CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE 



Page. 

 FRONTISPIECE— Carnation .4lma Ward. 

 COMMERCIAL CHRYSANTHEMUM CULTURE IN 

 ENGLAND— C. Harman Payne 415 



EDITORIAL 



Befriending the shade trees. — Societies should be 

 upheld. — A rapidly developing industry. — Again 



the chrysanthemum 416 



ARBORETUM NOTES 416 



A GREAT FRUIT SHOW.— Wilfrid Wheeler 417 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES. 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston 418 



Nassau County Horticultural Society 418 



St. Louis Florists' Club 418 



Worcester County Horticultural Society 418 



Massachusetts Horticultural Society 418 



Detroit Florist Club 418 



American Civic Association 419 



Morris County Gardeners' and Florists' Society... 419 



Lake Geneva Gardeners' and Foremen's Association 419 



Page. 



SEED TRADE TOPICS 420 



New Sweet Peas— G. C. W 420 



CUT FLOWER MARKET REPORTS. 



Boston, Buffalo, Cincinnati, Columbus, Detroit, 

 Louisville, New York, Philadelphia, Twin Cities. .. 423 



GREENHOUSE CONSTRUCTION— .J. R. Velie 430 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Chrysanthemum October Frost — Illustrated 417 



Our Frontispiece 417 



Visitors in Boston 417 



To Get Rid of "Fall Grass"— S. J. Trepess 417 



News Notes 417 



Personal 417 



Obituary 417 



Catalogues Received 420 



Business Notes of the Twin Cities 429 



Silver Wedding at Newport. R. I 429 



Philadelphia Notes 429 



Washington Wants a Commission House 429 



Greenhouses Building and Projected 430 



LOCAL REPRESENTATIVES 



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

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

 COLUMBUS, O.— M. B. Faxon, 246 Oak St. 

 CINCINNATI, 0.— 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 C. Watson, Dobson 



BIdg., 9th and Market St. 

 SAN FRANCISCO. CAL. — Luther Monnette, 866 Isabella 



St., Oakland. Cal. 

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

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



Streets, N. W. 



