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HORTICULTURE 



February 12, 191{K 



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 Bt, 

 CHICAGO, ILL. 



FIRE RECORD. 



Canton, O. — L. S. Sanborn's store 

 was completely gutted by fire re- 

 cently. 



Colorado Springs, Colo. — Fire des- 

 troyed the barn of Frank Crump, 

 florist, recently; loss $1,000. Four 

 valuable horses were rescued. 



Greenspring, O. — Fire damaged the 

 Unser greenhouse and stock January 

 27th; loss covered by insurance. 

 Buildings will be repaired at once. 



Orange, N. J. — Fire damaged the 

 greenhouses of Frederick C. Read, 18 

 Chapel street, to the extent of $1,000, 

 on the night of Jan. 30. There was 

 no insurance on the property. 



Greenwich, Conn. — Greenhouse, barn 

 and other buildings on the estate of 

 H. Durant Cheever, were destroyed by 

 fire on February 7. The fire depart- 

 ment had a strenuous two-hour fight 

 to save fiiP villa. 



Santa Rosa, Cal. — An explosion in 

 the heating plant of the greenhouses 

 owned by Rudolph Spreckles at his 

 country home near Glen Ellen, caused 

 a fire which resulted in the damaged 

 amounting to $5,000. The green- 

 houses and the keeper's room were 

 entirely destroyed. 



NEWS NOTES. 



Kennebunk, Me. — J. O. Elwell Is 

 having his greenhouses wired for elec- 

 tric lighting. 



Newtonville, IVIass. — Fi-ank Y. Or- 

 cutt has purchased of Frank Amidon 

 his greenhouses at 41 Brooks avenue 

 and will continue the business. 



Grand Rapids, Mich. — The new 

 greenhouse of Wencel S. Cukerski, 

 West Fulton street and Valley ave- 

 nue, is completed and being stocked. 

 Shrub shipments from France have 

 been oi-dered, to start his nursery In 

 Walker Township next April. 



The University of Wisconsin is now 

 building four greenhouses, each 20x 

 100, at Madison, Wis. The greenhouses 

 are for the Horticultural Department 

 and will be in connection with a small 

 laboratory building. It will be occu- 

 pied by the schools of Applied Plant 

 Physiology and Pathology, as well as 

 Horticulture. It is intended later to 

 build a laboratory of good size tor the 

 Horticultural Department in the imme- 

 diate vicinity of this building. The 

 greenhouses are for practical use and 

 not for show purposes. 



GREENHOUSES BUILDING OR 

 CONTEMPLATED. 



Salina, Kans. — Ed. Tatro, four houses. 



Chicago, III. — Wietor Bros., range 

 of houses. 



El Paso, Tex. — Potter Floral Co.. 

 two houses. 



Champaign, III. — Thomas Franks & 

 Son, additions. 



Indianapolis, Ind. — Albert Kempe. 

 carnation house. 



De Kalb, III. — J. Leonard Johnson, 

 one house, 21x120. 



Columbus, Ohio. — J. H. Williams, 

 one house, in spring. 



Westboro, Mass. — William Gardner, 

 one large house, in spring. 



Kalamazoo, Mich. — Insane Asylum, 

 one house, to cost $3,500. 



Wellston, St. Louis, Mo. — Martin 

 Hecht, house, 32x100 ft., in spring. 



Worcester, Mass. — John Coulson. 

 Main street, greenhouse, 20x50. 



Waban, Mass. — Wheeler & Co., Bea- 

 con street, one large house, in spring. 



St. Louis, Mo. — Wensel & Hecht, 

 Anglum, three houses, each 27x100 

 ft., in spring. 



Alliance, Ohio. — Lamborn Floral Co., 

 enlargement of their plant and other 

 extensive improvements. 



Cohoes, N. Y. — The new house, 22x 

 100 ft., to be built here by F. Fennell 

 in the spring and which was reported 

 in our last issue, makes a total of 

 four houses devoted to bedding plants 

 and carnations. 



Roslyn, Pa. — Victor Groshens has 

 received the building material for a 

 new house, 42x500 ft. This addition 

 makes four houses, covering an area 

 of 53,000 square ft., all of which will 

 be devoted to rose growing. 



Marysville, Calif. — J. W. Evans, Jr., 

 has leased the Karr property and 

 greenhouses for a term of years. Mr. 

 Evans intends to raise cut flowers, 

 seeds and plants and proposes to erect 

 a large greenhouse at an early date. 



Rhinebeck, N. Y. — J. Vonder Linden, 

 four violet houses, each 16x200. Mr, 

 Vonder Linden now has the largest 

 violet growing establishment in the 

 Rhinebeck section and probably the 

 biggest in this country, nine large 

 houses altogether. 



Elwood, Ind. — F. W. Blubaugh has 

 just completed a new iron frame 

 house, 25x125, this being his third, 

 and two more of this type are con- 

 templated for the near future. Vege- 

 tables are the main crop, but the es- 

 tablishment will be merged into cut 

 flower growing as quickly as possible. 

 One quarter of the new house is de- 

 voted to sweet peas, which are now 

 beginning to bloom finely. 



Spokane, Wash. — The Spokane Ca- 

 nal Company has been made defen- 

 dant in a suit by the Van Holderbeke 

 Nursery Company, which sues for 

 damages of $28,360 for loss of nur- 

 sery stock by reason of the company 

 failing to furnish water according to 

 contract. 



DREER'S 



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Florist Specialties B 12 Jj " 

 KEYSTONE CEDAR 

 PLA^T TUBS 



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C 13K" 

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F16K" 



L'aeh. 



■65 7 15 55-«> 



.75 8.25 65 CO 



■85 9-35 75 00 



1. 00 11.00 90.00 



1.25 13.75 110.00 



1.50 10.50 130.00 



Three largest sizes have 



handles. 



Special PAIL TUBS. 

 8 inches, .30 3 50 28.00 

 II '* .30 3.50 28.00 



Painted Green 

 HENRY A. DREBR 



714 Chestnut Street 

 Philadelphia, Pa. 



STANDARD FLOWER POTS 



Packed in small crates, easy to handle. 

 Price per crate 

 1500 2 in. pots in crate$4.88 

 1500214 " " 5.25 



1500 2'^ " " 6.00 



10003 ** " 5.00 



800 3 J6 " " S-So 



5004 " " 4.50 



456454 " " 5.=4 



320 5 " " 4.51 



siosVJ " " 3.78 



Price pet crate 

 144 6 in. pots in crate$3.i6 

 1207 '* *' 4.20 



60 8 ** ** 3.00 



H.'iND MADE 



48 9 in. pots in crate$3.6o 



48 10 " " 4,80 



24 II " " 3 60 



24 12 " " 4.80 



12 14 " " 4.80 



6 16 " " 4.50 



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



Cylinders for Cut flowers. Hanging Baskets, Lawn 



Vases , etc. Ten per cent . off for casfi with order. Address 



HUflngerBros., Pottcry.Fort Edward.N.Y. 

 August Rolker I Sons, A gts. 31 Barclay SL, N. r. Citji. 



Holds Glass 

 Firmly 



See the Point MS" 

 PE£RL£5S 



OlAztne Points are the best. 

 No rights or lefte. Box of 

 1,000 [loiDti 75 oU. postpaid. 



DENBT A.DREEB. I 



7U CbMtnat St., Phila.TPa. 



All The Clay 



for our 



Florists' R.ed Pots 



is prepared by passlug through a screen 

 1600 meshes to the square Inch. If Id 

 a hurry for pots, order from us. 



THE PETERS & <tEEO POTTERY CO.. Zanesville, Obio. 

 r— STANDARD FLOWER — 



If your greenhouses are within 500 miles of 

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



W. H. ERNEST 



-^ 28th « M Sts., • Washington, D. C, — 



Syracuse Red Pots 



Wc have a large stock of well made and well burned 

 pots on hand for the trade of igio. Prompt shipments 

 guaranteed. Our terms are as good as the best. 

 Catalogue for 1910 on application. 



Syracuse Pottery Co.,^^''n''*v"'^- 



