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HORTICULTURi: 



August 7, 1909 



POT MAKERS FOR 140 YEARS 



HEWS STAND ARD POTS 



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. 



PRACTICAL CEMENT BENCHES. 



The greenhouses and nurseries of the 

 Geo. Wittbold Co., at Edgebrook, oc- 

 cupy a place of 32 acres, 12 miles from 

 the heart of Chicago, which eight years 

 ago was a virgin forest. The grounds 

 are planted with shrubs and trees. The 

 greenhouses comprise about 70,000 

 square feet of glass. 



The wooden benches are now being 

 replaced by those of cement construc- 

 tion of the sectional type, after a de- 

 sign perfected by Otto Wittbold, who 

 is in charge of the place. The posts 

 are 4 inches square at the top and 8 

 inches square at the bottom and 2 

 feet high, set 5 feet apart from center 

 to center. The side pieces are "L" 

 shaped, 4 inches at bottom, 8 inches 

 high and IVt inches thick, reinforced 

 by chicken wire and three rods of tele- 

 phone wire, and are in sections 5 feet 

 long. The bottom pieces are 1 inch 

 thick, 8 inches wide, 5S inches long, 

 reinforced with two rods of telephone 

 wire and placed crosswise of the bed 

 the ends resting on the side pieces. 

 The centers are supported by a piece 

 of 2x4 cement made in any length de- 

 sired, running lengthwise under the 

 bench and resting on posts of cement. 

 These are also reinforced by two heavy 

 twisted strands of telephone wire. 



In reply to a question Mr. Wittbold 

 stated that he mixed the cement in the 

 proportion of one part cement to three 

 parts coarse sand or gi-avel used quite 

 wet. At the present price of material 

 the cost is $60 for bench 5 feet wide, 

 150 feet long, including all labor for 

 making and erecting. 



STANDARD FLOWER POTS 



Packed in small crates, easy to handle. 



Seed pans, same price as pots. Send for price list of 

 Cylinders for Cut flowers. Hanging Baskets, Lawn 

 Vases, etc, Tenperccnt.off for cash with order. Address 



Hilfing:cr Bros., Pottery, Fort Edward^.Y. 

 August Rolker & Sons. Agti. 31 Barclay St> N. Y. City. 



Syracuse Red Pots 



ALL THE STANDARD SIZES 



It will soon be time to order large pots for 

 fall potting. We have a full line of the best. 



Syracu se Pot tery Co.. ^^"y^"^^- 



I— STANDARD FLOWER — 



If your greenhouses are within 500 miles of 

 the Capitol, write us, we can save you money. 



W. H. ERNEST 



^— 28th I M Sts,, - Washington, 0. C. '— 



GREENHOUSES BUILDING OR 

 CONTEMPLATED. 



Erie, Pa. — Eric Thor&pson, one house. 



Detroit, tVlich.— C. L. Walker, one 

 house. 



Paris, Ky. — John Christman, house, 

 20x70. 



Morristown, N. J. — R. A. Elliott, one 

 house. 



Springfield, HI. — Carl Rauth, house, 

 36x159. 



Austin, Tex. — Austin Floral Co., 

 house, 24x75. 



Paola, Kan. — Mrs. W. Z. Garman, 

 40-ft. addition. 



Decatur, Ind. — Ernsburger & Moses, 

 range of houses. 



So. Royalston, Mass. — E. B. Hanson, 

 range of houses. 



Nashville, Tenn. — Mclntyre Bros., 

 range of houses. 



Paterson, N. J. — M. Werne, two 

 houses, each 16x75. 



Hamburg, N. Y. — Wm. Minnigheim, 

 four houses, each 40x204. 



Geneva., N. Y.— J. P. Welch, two 

 houses, each 25x125; Smith ^ ifen- 

 nett, house, 25x200. 



Lexington, Ky. — J. A. Kellar, carna- 

 tion house, 28x200; Michler Bros. Co., 

 carnation house, 20x100. 



Austin, Tex. — Seiders & Walker, two 

 houses, each 22x100; lean-to, 14x12 

 and propagating shed, 6x50. 



Randolph, Mass. — Wm. Bellingham, 

 violet house, 18x100; Henry E. Belcher, 

 remoddeling and additions; Paine 

 Bros., house, 40x150. 



NEWS NOTES. 



Evansville, Ind. — Julius Niednagel & 

 Sons are putting in a 150 h.p. boiler 

 for heating their increased space. 



Athol, Mass. — G. W. Sutherland has 

 nearly completed a 60-foot chimney 

 in connection with a new steam plant 

 for heating his houses. 



Clifton, N. J. — Robert Simpson has 

 replaced the wood benches in his rose 

 houses with Wilson & Hoyt patent con- 

 crete benches and is highly pleased 

 with the change. 



PATENTS GRANTED. 



928,323. Apparatus for Automatically 

 Regulating Heaters. James 

 Naughton, BeHeville, N. J. 



928,361. Boiler Tube Cleaner. Sidney 

 M. Cockburn, London, Eng- 

 land. 



928,372. Lawn Sprinkler. Albert Fish- 

 er, Chicago, 111. 



928,711. Pipe Hanger. Edward E. 

 Taft, Mount Pleasant, Iowa, 

 assignor to The Taft Manu- 

 facturing Company, Mount 

 Pleasant, Iowa. 



A STIC A 



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F.I.PIERCE CO. 



12 W. BROADWAY 



NEW YORK 



naatica Is elastic and tenacious, admits of ex- 

 pansion and contraction. Putty becomes hard 

 and brittle. Broken glass more easily removed 

 without breaking of other glass as occurs with 

 hard patty. Lasts longer than putty. Easy to 

 apply. 



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Scad your biuiacK direct to Waahiogtam. 

 Sarcs time and insum bcttar sarvioc. 

 iVnODjd attention guaranteed. 

 TwcQtT-five years' actire tcrvlcc. 

 SPECIALTY: " WorklnK oa th* FaHa 

 of Otben." 



8IG6ERS & 8I6BER8 



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Holds Class 

 Firmly 



See the Point isr 

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OlazlBV Points are the beau 

 No rigtiu or leftt. Box of 

 1,000 polDU 75 eta. postpaid. 



HENBT A. DREER, 



7 14 Chertaat Ba., mia., Pa. 



GREENHOUSE CONSTRUCTION 

 LUMBER 



John C. Moninger Co. 



1 17 E. Blackhawk St., CHICAGO. 



The Annual Meeting of the Florists' 

 Hail Association of America will be 

 held at "Music Hall," Cincinnati, 

 Ohio, at 4.30 P. M. on Thursday, 

 August 19th, 1909. 



JOHN Q. ESLER, Sec'y 



ADVERTISERS' IDEAL 



5. A. F. Convention Number to 

 be Issued August 14. 



Oriler space now — It pays to be forehaniled 



