August 18, 1917 



HORTICULTURE 



209 



Est. 176S 



Pot Makers for a 

 Century anda Half 



HEWS 



STRONG 



RED 

 POROUS 



POTS 



Inc. 1904 



World's Largest 

 Manufacturers 



Standard, Azalea, Bulb, Orchid, Fern, Hanging, Embossed, Rose, Carnation, Palm, Cyclamen, 

 Special Shapes to Order. Chicken Founts, Pigeon Nests, Bean Pots, Etc. 



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 and DacoantB 



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A. H. HEWS & CO., Inc., Gambrii^e, Mass. 



Wareh«mfl««i 



CAMBKIDGK, HAM 



NKW TOBX. N. T. 



GREENHOUSES BUILDING OR 

 CONTEMPLATED. 



Grinnell, la. — David McBlain, house 

 20 X 102. 



Aberdeen, Wash. — Ellis Greenhous- 

 es, additions. 



Houston, Tex. — Atwood & Fagen, 

 house 35 x 100. 



North Warren, Pa. — Victor Offerlee, 

 range of houses. 



Albany, N. Y.— Fred Danker. Cen- 

 tral ave.. one house. 



Andover, Mass. — .1. H. Playdon, 

 Stearns house 16 x 100. 



Watchung, Ct. — A. S. Nodine. Meri- 

 den road, house 20 x 100. 



Springfield, Mass. — William Schlat- 

 ter & Son. 437 Bay St., additions. 



The Philadelphia office of the King 

 Construction Company reports the 

 fallowing recent contracts. 



Curved glass eave greenhouse 18 ft. 

 X 50 ft., Dr. Archibald G. Thomson. 

 Ardmore, Pa. Curved glass leanto 

 12 ft. X 34 ft. for Watson F. Puqua, 

 Jenkintown, Pa. Range of houses for 

 George C. Thomas, Jr., Chestnut Hill, 

 Pa., consisting of one curved glass 

 eave house 25 ft. x 84 ft. divided into 

 three compartments; one, 25 ft. x 59 

 ft., divided into two compartments; 

 I>ropagating house 11 ft. x 17 ft. and 

 service building 25 ft. x 26 ft. Brick 

 walls will be used throughout in this 

 construction, pannel vents being 

 worked in the walls for bottom ven- 

 tilation. .\11 benches will be strictly 

 sanitary type, having galvanized pipe 

 frames with tile bottoms and slate 

 sides. Curved glass eave house 18 ft. x 

 58 ft., in two compartments, for 

 Eugene DuPont. Greenville, Delaware. 

 Iron frame house 24 ft. x 34 ft. for C. 



C. Harrison. Jr., Villa Nova. Pa. 

 Materials for house 21 ft. x 100 ft. for 

 the U. S. Department of Agriculture 

 at Beltsville, Maryland. Materials for 

 semi iron frame house 21 ft. x 150 ft. 

 for R. Jamison & Sons, Germantown, 

 Pa. Materials for house 18 ft. x 25 ft. 

 for Robert D. Weaver, Washington, 



D. C. 



PUBLICATION RECEIVED. 



The sixty-fourth annual report of 

 the Massachusetts State Board of 

 Agriculture for 1916, two volumes, has 

 been issued. Volume one contains the 

 reports of various officers and the re- 

 turns of tlie incorporated agricultural 

 organization. The report of the State 

 Nursery Inspector is quite lengthy 



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No. Diam. Ea. Doz. 1000 



10 20 in. $1.90 $21.50 $175.00 



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HINRY A. DREER, seidi mab, my mh smuns, 714-716 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. 



DIfflcult nnd rejected cases ipsel 

 allT solicited. No misleading !■- 

 dncementi made to secure buBln«»« 

 Over 30 years' active practice. Bt- 

 perlenced, personal, consc1*ntl»«a 

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Masclca Is elastic and tenacloua, admlta of 

 expansion and contraction. Putty become* 

 bard and brittle. Broken glass mora Mially 

 removed without breaking of other glasa 

 as occurs with bard pntty. Laati lOBtw 

 than patty Baay to apply. 



The Flortats Hall Assoelatlea rate at Ib- 

 aaraoee from Not. lat, 1914 ta NaT. lai, 

 ion will be twenty reata per haadrad 

 aqnare f*et of alnsle thick (laaa aa^] tight 

 cents per hundred square feet af daabW 

 thick fflaas. For partlcnl&r* addreaa 

 ,IORN G. RSLini. See.. Paddle BiTer, If. J. 



and is largely devoted to the problem 

 of the pine blister rust. Vol. 11 gives 

 in full the lectures and essays deliv- 

 ered at the annual meeting of the 

 Board at Springfield. Some are well 

 illustrated and all are very instructive. 



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 Speedily and et'ononically erected, 



S. JACOBS & SONS, BrooLlni. N.I. 



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JOHN A. EVANS CO. 

 Richmond, Ind. 



