INDEX 



INCEPTION OF THE CONGRESS. 



COMMITTEES OF ARRANGEMENT. 



OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES. 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTION? 



A FLOWER MESSAGE (poem), Eben E. Rexford, Wis ....................... 7 



WALKING WITH NATURE (poem), Geo. W. Dunn ........................... 9 



How TO PRODUCE NEW FLOWERS, Luther Burbank ....................... 10 



WATER GARDENING IN CALIFORNIA, Edmund D. Sturtevant ............ 14 



DEVELOPING PUBLIC PARKS, John McLaren ................................. 20 



FERNS OF THE PACIFIC COAST, Lorenzo G. Yates .......................... 25 



BAMBOOS AND ORNAMENTAL GRASSES, C. F. Franceschi .................. 31 



FLORAL LITERATURE OF CALIFORNIA, Charles H. Shinn .................. 35 



HARDINESS OF PALMS, Thomas Compton ...................................... 39 



SHRUBS OF CALIFORNIA, Miss Alice Eastwood ............................... 43 



^ ESCHSCHOLTZIA, Volney Rattan .................................................. 51 



^NATIVE ANNUALS, Mrs. W. H. Wiester ...................................... 54 



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PERENNIALS, Mrs. W. S. Chandler ................................... 58 



= MOSSES AND LICHENS OF PACIFIC COAST, Josiah Keep ................... 61 



o| WHAT FLOWERS TEACH Us, Mrs. L. O. Hodgkins ........................ 71 



^RAILWAY GARDENING IN CALIFORNIA, Johannes Reimers ................ 75 



CACTI AND THEIR CULTURE, Mrs. Henry P. Tricou ..................... 82 



PROTECTION OF GARDENS FROM FROST, Alexander G. McAdie ......... 86 



GROWING FLOWER SEED, Lester L. Morse ..................... . ............ 91 



THE BIG TREES, Wm. R. Dudley ............................................. 99 



PHOTOGRAPHING PLANT LIFE, O. V. Lange .................................. 107 



SEMITROPICAL GARDENING, E. J. Wickson ................................. 110 



CALIFORNIA SEED INDUSTRY, Waldo Rohnert ................................ 116 



FLORICULTURE OF SAN FRANCISCO, Mrs. A. R. Gunnison ................ 119 



FIELD-GROWN ROSES, John Gill ................................................ 125 



FLORICULTURE IN SAN DIEGO, Miss Kate O. Sessions .................... 129 



THE BEGONIA, P. B.Kennedy, Nev ........................................... 132 



OAKS OF THE PACIFIC SLOPE, J. G. Lemmon .............................. 151 



ROSE GROWING IN OREGON, Frederick V. Holman ........................ 170 



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