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HORTICULTURE 



Jannary 28, 1911 



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HEWS STANDARD POTS 





f""P0T MAKERS FOR 140 YEARS 



WORLDS LARGEST MANUFACTURERS 



P«arson Street, 

 LONG ISLAND CITY, N. Y. 



WRITE FOR CATALOGUE AND DISCOUNTS 



A. H. HEWS & CO., Inc. 



Main Office and Factories 

 CAMBRIDGE, MASS. 



NEWS NOTES. 



Haverhill, Mass.— W. F. Eaton has 

 purchased the interest of John E. 

 Tabor in the Rosemont Greenhouse. 



Los Angeles, Calif.— The Weltskill 

 Greenhouse has been leased by 

 George C. Watson. 



Keene, N. H. — A strip of land adja- 

 cent to its white pine nursery has 

 been purchased by the Keene Fores- 

 try Association. 



Poughkeepsie, N. Y. — The Pendal 

 Greenhouses on Violet avenue have 

 been leased by John Kluge who is 

 growing violets. 



Hinckley, III. — Owing to the burst- 

 ing of a pipe which put out the fire, F. 

 E. Graves suffered a loss of several 

 hundred dollars in frozen stock. 



Rapid City, S. D. — The Sunryside 

 Nursery and Gardens, owned by Rei- 

 mers Bros., is a new concern which 

 has started here, growing greenhouse 

 vegetables, etc. 



South Sudbury, Mass. — J. A. Bart- 

 lett has purchased the Anderson 

 Greenhouses together with the dwell- 

 ing house and an acre and a half of 

 land on the state highway. 



New York, N. Y.— The Wilson 

 Plant Oil and Fertilizer Co., of Chat- 

 ham, N. J., have located at 150 Nas- 

 sau St., Room 1124. W. G. Badgley 

 has disposed of his interests in the 

 company. 



Baltimore, Md. — The Baltimore 

 Florists' Exchange elected the follow- 

 ing at their annual election. Isaac H. 

 Moss, president; F. C. Bauer, vice- 

 president; P. B. Welch, secretary; C. 

 E. Akehurst, treasurer; J. J. Perry, 

 manager. 



El Campo, Texas. — The city council 

 has awarded to J. E. Wheeler, florist, 

 the contract for improving and beauti- 

 fying Herder's Park. This will prob- 

 ably be followed by another contract 

 for planting shade and ornamental 

 trees upon the principal streets of 

 the city. 



Santa Barbara, Calif. — The partner- 

 ship of A. Verhelle and E. Lejeune, 

 proprietors of the Exotic Nurseries, 

 has been dissolved. Mr. Lejeune will 

 conduct business in the same location 

 under the same name, "fhe Kentia 

 Nurseries is a separate business es- 

 tablished by Mr. Verhelle and he will 

 carry a stock of other palms besideg. 



Forest City, Iowa. — The bursting of 

 pipes in the boiler of the Hill City 

 Greenhouses left them without heat- 

 ing of any kind on Monday, Jan. 2, 

 but fifty oil heaters were gotten to- 

 gether and these, with smudges, kept 

 the plants from freezing until the 

 boiler could be temporarily repaired. 

 Luckily this was accomplished by 

 Monday evening, as Monday night the 

 temperature dropped to 24 degrees be- 

 low zero. 



DRKER'S "Riverton Special" Plant Tub 



Manufactured for us exclusively. The best tul> ever Introduoed. The neatest, lightest 

 and cheapest. Painted green, with electric welded hoops. The four largest sizes have 

 drop handles. 



HENRY A. OREER, seeJs, Pbnts. Baib s and Siipniies. 714 chcstflut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 



GREENHOUSES BUILDING OR CON- 

 TEMPLATED. 



Oakland, Cal. — E. E. Gill, one house. 



St. John's, N. F. — J. McNiel, house 

 22 X 100 feet. 



Indianapolis, Ind. — Alfred Brandt, 

 conservatory. 



Eau Claire, Wis. — Eau Claire Green- 

 houses, addition. 



San Mateo, Cal. — MacRorie-McLaren 

 Co., eight houses. 



Lee, Mass.— W. B. O. Field Estate, 

 house 30 X 41 feet. 



Evansville, Ind. — Karl Seidler, re- 

 building next year. 



Woodstock, Ont., Can. — Woodstock 

 Floral Co., two houses. 



Warren, Ohio — Thomas Fletcher, 

 two houses 9 X 25 feet. 



Duluth, Minn. — Superior Floral Co., 

 two houses 20 x 100 feet. 



Toronto, Ont., Can. — Grobba & Wan- 

 drey, two houses 40 x 180 feet. 



Birmingham, Ala. — Theodore Smith, 

 eleven houses each 32 x 150 feet. 



Beloit, Ohio — G. A. Barber, two 

 houses IS x 200, one 14 x 100, one 16 

 X 150. 



Tuxedo, N. Y. — G. L. Mason, chrys- 

 anthemum house and range of fruit 

 houses. 



Philadelphia, Pa. — Jno. Stephen- 

 son's Sons, Oak Lane, Pa., will build 

 a big rose house 72x400, iron frame, 

 even span, concrete walls, on new lot 

 of four acres, one block above their 

 present location on the Old York Road. 

 The boiler plan is formalated and 

 founded with the idea of a further ex- 

 tension of this 28,000 initiatory move. 

 The plant may be ten times 28,000 be- 

 fore they get through. The contract 

 has been awarded, and operations will 

 be commenced at once. 



Stephen Mortensen, Southampton, 

 Pa., has awarded contract for rebuild- 

 ing rose house 3Cxl75 — operations to 

 be commenced at once. 



The two foregoing contracts have 

 been secured after the keenest compe- 

 tition by the Lord & Burnham Co., 

 through "their local agent, D. T. Con- 

 nor. Mr. Connor has also captured a 

 good-sized contract from Baltimore 

 recently — that of Stevenson Bros — 4Sx 

 200— who will build at Towson, Md., 

 and remove part of their plant from 

 Oovanstown to the new location. 



INCORPORATED. 



Bellevue, Pa. — Neff National Floral 

 Co., capital stock $75,000. 



Geneva, N. Y. — The Universal Nur- 

 series, capital stock $5,000. Incorpor- 

 ators, Frank J. Conboy, T. J. Buckley 

 and Thomas J. Bolger. 



Lake Geneva, Wis. — Lake Geneva 

 Horticultural Society, capital stock 

 $10,000. Incorporators, F. J. Tyrell, 

 W. P. Longland and A. J. Smith. 



IN BANKRUPTCY. 

 Natick, Mass. — Fred L. Hardy; lia- 

 bilities $5619, assets $200. 



STANDARD FLOWER POTS 



Packed in small cratcf , easy to handle. 



Price per crate 

 1500 sin. pots in crate$4,88 



1500 2 )i 

 1500 1% 

 loco 3 



800, H 

 5C04 



456454 



3205 



a 05H 



5.«5 



6.00 



g.co 



5.80 



5 24 



4 51 

 1.78 



Price per crftte 

 1446 m. potsiiicrate$3.26 

 iao7 " " 4,20 



60 8 " " 3 00 



HAND MADE 

 48 9111. pots in crate$3 60 

 4^ 10 " " 4 So 



24 II " " 3 60 



34 13 " " 4 80 



13 H " " 4 80 



6 16 " " 4 50 



Seed pans . same price ac pots. Send for price list 

 Cylinders for Cut flowers, Hangiog Baskets Lawo 



Vdses, etcTen pcrceotolffor cash with order. Address 



Hilfingfer Bros., Pottery.Fort Edward.N.Y. 

 August Roll(ir& Sons. ARts. 31 Barcby St, N. Y. Ctt|. 



Syracuse Red Pots 



"A little pot is soon hot," likewise a thin pot. This 

 will save ynu fuel O r pf>ts are the thinnest and 

 toughest owing to the superior qua ity of the clay. 

 New price list on application. 



Syracuse Pottery Co., ^^'ii'*?^" 



ALL THE CLAY 



FOR OUR 



Florist' Red Pots 



is prepared by paising 

 through a screen > 600 meshes 

 to the square inch If in a 

 hurry for pots, order from us. 



THE PETERS S REED POTTERY CO. 



Zanesvllls. Ohio 



— STANDARD FLOWER — 



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If your greenh"»uscs arc within 500 miles of 

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



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