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H O )c«w T I C U L T U R E 



pecember 11, 1909 



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Tiers' 



HEWS STA ND ARD 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 Sti, 

 CHICAGO, ILL. 



NEWS NOTES. 



Toledo, Ohio.— Charles A. Schramm, 

 1315 Cherry street, has taken his bro- 

 ther, Bernard G. Schramm, into part- 

 nership. The name of the firm will be 

 Schramm Bros. 



Owing to the spread of the goose- 

 berry mildew in European countries, 

 an enactment has been recently signed 

 by Queen Wilhelmina and both min- 

 isters of agriculture, trade and com- 

 merce, and finance, forbidding the 

 •entry into the Netherlands or trans- 

 portation through, of gooseberry, red 

 and white currants, black currants 

 and raspberry plants or parts of 

 plants, from any other country; the 

 same applying to all materials used 

 in packing one or more of these bush- 

 es, or wliich have been so employed. 



VALUABLE BOOKS 



No one man can "know it all," 

 no matter what line of business he 

 may be engaged in. Oftentimes 

 one point gleaned from some good 

 book nets him many dollars over 

 the price he paid for it. 



The books in the following list 

 are all good books tor the lines they 

 cover. You may reap a golden har- 

 vest from some of them. 



The Amerlonn Carnation. C. W. Ward. 

 Price, $3.50. 



Chrysanthemum Manual. Smith. Price, 

 40 cents. 



The Chrysanthemum. Herringtoo. Price, 

 50 rents. 



Manual of the Trees of North America. 

 C. S. Sargent. Price, $6.00. 



Soils: How to Handle and Improve 

 Them. S. W. Fletcher. Price, $2.20. 



DalTodils — Narcissus and How to Grow 

 Them. A. M. Kirby. Price, $1.10. 



The Art of Landscape Gardening. Hum- 

 phrey Uepton. Price, $3.20. 



Roses and How to Grow Them. By 

 Many Experts. Price, $1.21. 



The New Cyclopedia of American Hortl- 

 ouiture. I,, n. Bailey. Four Vol- 

 umes. Price, $20.00. 



How to Plan the Home Grounds. S. 

 Parsons, .Ir. Price $1.10. 



How to Make a Vej^etable Garden. 

 Edith L. Fuilerton. Price, $2.20. 



We can supply all of the above 

 books postpaid at the prices listed. 

 Any book, foreign or domestic, 

 which treats of horticultural topics 

 can be secured through this office. 



Horticulture Publishing Company 

 11 Hamilton Place, Boston, Mass. 



SAVE 



your weekly copies of this paper. 



DON'T 



throw them away. 



The contents are always of PERMA- 

 NENT VALUE and you may need 

 them for reference ton^orrow, a year 

 .from tomorrow, or still later. 



GREENHOUSES BUILDING OR 

 CONTEMPLATED. 



Athens, Pa.— Fred. Tracy, one house. 



Salem, O.— W. A. Cogill, five houses. 



Marion, N. Y.— H. H. .Roland, one 

 house. 



Morton, III.— Rudolph Oswald, one 

 house. 



St. Louis, Mo.— L. Geiger, Maryland 

 avenue. 



Milton, Ore.— James Wait, range of 

 houses. 



South Bend, Ind.— W. D. Rettic, 

 violet house. 



Peoria, III.— Cole Bros., range of 

 rose houses. 



Scituate, Mass.— Edward Jacobs, 

 rhubarb house. 



Baldwinsville, Mass.— G. Blodgett, 

 house, 20x150. 



Council Bluffs, la.— J. F. Wilcox, 

 range of houses. 



Springfield, Mass. — Mark Aitlcen, 

 range of houses. 



Elkhart, Ind.— Hugh Hills, carna- 

 tion house, 25xS0. 



Sandusky, O.— J. P. Richardson, 

 three houses, 20x90. 



Freeport, Me.— G. E. Bartol, vege- 

 table forcing house. 



Jackson, La. — W. J. Brown, rose and 

 chrysanthemum houses. 



Brooklyn, N. Y. — A. L. Miller, cool 

 house for bay trees, etc., 20x160. 



Grand Rapids, Mich. — Wealthy Ave- 

 nue Floral Co., house, 130 feet long. 



Trenton, Mo. — Trenton Floral Co., 

 three houses, each 27x100, conserva- 

 tory, 20x20. 



PATENTS GRANTED. 



941,448. Flower Pot Holder. Arthur 

 Haglund, Lawrence, Kans. 



941,G44. Plant Pulling Implement 

 William H. Miller, Bridge- 

 water, Va. 



941,078. Cultivator. John Hobson, 

 Jr., Wayne, Pa. 



FIRE RECORD. 



Rockport, Me. — Fire early Thursday, 

 Dec. 2, destroyed the greenhouses of 

 George Glarentzel. Total loss with 

 no insurance. 



Wakefield, Mass. — The conservatory 

 at Shadow Farm, owned by Edward 

 L. Welch, was damaged by fire to the 

 extent of $1,000 on Nov. 29. 



Oconomowoc, Wis. — The green- 

 houses of the James H. Eckles' Lac 

 La Belle property were damaged by 

 fire Nov. 30, the loss being $3,000. 



New Haven, Conn. — The apparatus 

 used to heat the greenhouses of the 

 Edward Malley estate on Derby Ave. 

 became overheated and set fire to the 

 wooden side of the house, Dec. 2. 

 Damage $500. 



Newcastle, Ind. — Fire of uncertain 

 origin destroyed a new barn owned by 

 Peter Weiland, entailing a loss of 

 about $3,500. with insurance to the 

 amount of $1,800. In addition to the 

 barn a horse, thirty tons of hay, over 

 two hundred bushels of com and other 

 grain and farming Implements were 

 consumed. 



DREER'S 



Florist Specialties 



KEYSTONE Cf^D^R 



PLANT TUBS 



Diam. Knch. Do«. 100. 

 A II in. ,65 7 li ^5 00 

 B 12'^ •' 75 8.25 65 <o 

 C 13^ *' 85 9-3^ 7500 

 D 14!^ " 1. 00 11.00 90.00 

 E 15 *' I 25 13.75 no 00 

 F t6'% " 1.50 10 50 133.00 

 T-iree largest sues have 

 handles. 



Speci .1 PAIL TUBS. 

 8 inches, .30 350 2800 

 II " ,30 3 50 28.00 



Painted Gre n 



HENKT A. URREB 



714 C^'e'itnut Street 



Philadelphia, Pa. 



STANDARD FLOWER POTS 



Packed in imalt crates, easy to h a fwllr . 



Price per crate 

 tsoo ■ in.pots in crate $4.S8 



1500 a}i 

 10003 



800354 



5004 



4564^ 



3aoj 



•10554 



5-25 

 6.00 

 5.00 

 J.80 

 4.50 



4.5' 

 3-78 



Price per crate 

 144 6 in. poti in crate $3.16 

 1207 '* " 4.30 



608 " " yoo 



HAND MADE 

 48 9 in. pou in crate $3.60 

 48 10 " " 4.80 



34 II " •* 3.60 



34 la " *• 4.80 



1214 " " 4.80 



6 x6 " •* 4.50 



Seed pans, tame price as pots. Send for price list ol 

 Cylinders for Cut flowers. Hanging Baskets, Lawn 

 Vases, etc Ten per cent, ofi for cash with order. Address 



Hilflngrcr Bros., Pottery. Fort Edward Ji.Y. 



Xugutt Rolktr 1 8oM> Agt». 11 Barcliy St. N. Y. City. 



Syracuse Red Pots 



ALL THE STANDARD SIZES 



It will soon be time to order laige pots for 

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



Syracuse Pottery Co., 



SYRACUSE, 



N. Y. 



r— STANDARD FLOWER— i 



If your greenhouses are wilhin sot mi'es of 

 the Capitol, write us, we can s^ve you money. 



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— 28th « M Sts., 



ERNEST 



WasHngt'n, 0. C. 



Imerican Flower and TreeTub, 

 No. 



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Tht AmericanWoodenware Mfff.Co 



▼ Ot-CDO. OHIO 



Sold by Schlegel & Fottler Co., Boston, Mass. 



All the Clay for our 



FLORISTS' RED POTS 



Is prepared by passing thronph a screen 

 1600 meshes to the square Inch. If lu 

 a hnrry for pots, order from us. 



THE PETERS i REED POTTERY CO., Zantnitle, Ohio. 



