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HORTICULTURE. 



February 20, 1909 



HEWS STANDARD POTS 





POT MAKERS FOR 140 YEARS 



WORLDS LARGEST MANUFACTURERS 



Pearson Street, 

 LONG ISLAND CITY, N. Y. 



WRITE FOR CATALOGUE AND DISCOUNTS 



A. H. HEWS & CO., Inc. 



CAMBRIDGE, MASS. 



452-460 No. Branch St., 

 CHICAGO, ILL. 



HILFINGER BROS.' FLOWER POT MANUFACTORY. 



Our illustration shows tlie process of 

 flower pot making at Fort Edward, N. 

 Y. The large machine seen in the pic- 

 ture is making S in. standard pots, aud 

 the other is making 2 1-2 in. The estah- 

 lishment of Hilfinger Brothers was 

 begun by .Tohn Hilfinger and his sons 

 in SS4, and has since then constantly 

 increased in facilities, growth and out- 

 put. The senior Mr. Hilfinger died 

 some twenty years ago and the boys 

 stepped into the harness and have con- 

 dufted it with phenomenal success 

 ever since. There were three of the 

 brothers, Fred, Rupert and Alexander, 

 but Rupert died four years ago. The 



firm's specialty is standard flower pots 

 in all sizes, though everything in the 

 line of stone ware, jars, milk vessels, 

 churns, tiling of every description is 

 also manufactured. One machine is 

 capable cf producing from 3000 to 

 SOOO flower pots per day, varying in 

 size from 3 to S inches, by the chang- 

 ing of dies. Large stocks are kept on 

 hand for immediate shipment, a mill 

 for manufacturing shipping crates, 

 ware sheds, power house and other 

 conveniences enable promptest service 

 and ware has not only been shipped to 

 tvery state in the l^nion but to Hawaii, 

 Porto Rico and Cuba. 



MAKING POTS. 



When a greenhouse man is out of 

 any particuar kind of pots, he simply 

 goes to the telephone and calls up the 

 pottery, and. if the ghost has walked 

 at frequent intervals, in the course of 

 a very short time the pots, nicely 

 packed, a'e at his door. Further than 

 this the greenhouse man does not con- 

 cern himself. The detail of manufac- 

 ture is nothing to him, and neither is 

 there anything attractive in the tech- 

 nical p.art of production; the clay, get- 

 ting it into condition, the losses, the 

 machinery an up-to-date pottery re- 

 quires, the magic of the potter's wheel, 

 the skill of the man at the wheel, etc., 

 all these, and hundreds of other inter- 

 esting points are unnoticed. But, aod 

 notice the "but" — if there are any pots 



broken, in the thousands ordered and 

 received, there is sure to follow a many 

 adjectived conversation that will en- 

 lighten tbe iKittery man on several 

 points about liis miserable self, that 

 he may have quite forgotten. 



A visit to a pottery lias an element 

 ot fascination for even the least inter- 

 ested, and with a good guide to ^'x- 

 plain things, a pleasant few hours can 

 be spent there. With the potter there 

 has been the same march of progress 

 as in all other manufacturing lines, 

 and machinery and metliods have 

 changed aud improved to keep in step. 

 The primitive methods in vogue 

 twenty-five years ago, and which were 

 adequate to the times and demands, 

 have been passed up, and pottery mak- 

 ing has risen to the dignity of an art, 

 through the process of a few decades 

 of evolution, with new and wonderful 

 n)achinery, new methods, though with 

 no better ' workmen, but with those 

 having wider range of skill made pos- 



sible by the improvement in their tools. 



The press of competition has added 

 to the expense ot marketing tho 

 products of a pottery, and it means an 

 active brain and a continuous "hot 

 foot" to keep tho rlgures on the right 

 side of the lodger. A man that tries 

 to do the Micawher act of waiting, 

 will have troubled dreams and on 

 awakening will find but little use for 

 clay or machinery. 



Years ago a local trade would keep 

 a fellow happy and busy, but the pro- 

 gressive potter ot today is not satisfied 

 with a limited sphere, and he reaches 

 far and wide and will ship pots from 

 here to there, and from there back 

 again, thousands of miles east, west, 

 north and south. It takes a live man 

 to meet such a proposition as this. 



Under such speedy methods the na- 

 tui al results are that there are very 

 good pots and very bad pots, and it is 

 up to the buyer to get on the right 

 track for the proper goods. You can- 

 not put plants into promises, however 

 ■strong they may be made. 



When trade is dull, and there is no 

 business that can get any duller than 

 the floiists' or gardeners, the tedium 

 of the waiting could be killed by tak- 

 ing a day off and visiting a pottery. 

 Even if you have been there before, a 

 good guide will always find something 

 new to show you of interest. 



L. J. DOOGUE. 



Rochester, N. Y. — Paul Thomann 

 has now re-opened his store, he hav- 

 ing been closed on account of fire sev- 

 eral weeks ago. 



The new private greenhouse of Mr. 

 Bonbright, East avenue, is now finish- 

 ed and has been filled -with the usual 

 run of palms, ferns, etc., etc., and is 

 now a place well worthy a visit. The 

 gardener in charge is Otto Graesnae, 

 for many years with Ellwanger & 

 Barry. 



STANDARD FLOWER POTS 



Packed in small crates, easy to haDdle. 

 Price per crate 



1500 2 in.] 



«5O0 2^ 



1500354 



3-78 



144 6 Id. pots in crate $3.16 

 1207 •' " 4-20 



608 '■ 3.00 



HAND IVIADE 

 48 9 in. pots in crate $3.60 

 43 10 " " 4.80 



24 II " ** 3.60 



24 12 " " 4.80 



12 14 " " 4-8o 



16 " " 4.50 



210 sH " 

 See(3 pans, same 

 Cylinders for Cut 

 Vases, etc. Ten per 



Hilfingfer Bros., Pottery, FortEdward.N.Y, 

 August Rolker & Sons, flgts. 31 Barclay St., N. Y. City 



price as pots. Send for price list of 

 flowers, Hanging Baskets, Lawn 

 cent . off for cash w ith order. Address 



Standard 

 Flower . . 



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W. H. ERNEST 



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