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R irn c u L T u n E 



NoTsmber 3. 1917 





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i The R. S. Bradley 

 Greenhouses 

 At Prides Crossing 

 Massachusetts 



WILLIAM CANNING. Supt. 



JN what tho office boy calls "our old urceii 

 covereJ cataloi;." printed over twenty years ago. 

 Is the picture of a »;rcenhouso erected for Peter 

 B. Bradley, at Hinu'ham, Mass. 

 "R. S." Is a brother to "Peter B." 

 They are the Bradleys of the Bradley Fertilizer 

 Company and the American Agricultural Chemi- 

 cal Company. 



In a recent letter from our Boston manager, he 

 writes: 



"On the site now occupied by Mr. Bradley's 

 greenhouses at Prides Crossing, was a range of 

 four or five heavy wooden, old fashioned, side 

 hill houses. All of these houses except the old 

 grapery were taken down at the time we built 

 the first big house. Then it was Mr. Bradley's 

 intention to leave the old grapery standing, but 

 it looked so badly alongside of the new house that 



almost I I' < ■■ • ' ave U8 an order 



for tearing it down, and the erecting of a new 

 one over the old vines. This was done without 

 harmini.' the vines In any way, although one or 

 two of them had to he removed to make room for 

 the passage connection. The vines have kept 

 right on bearing, however, as profusely as they 

 dill in the old hoMse." 



The point we had particularly in mind was that 

 twenty years ago one brother buys HItchlngs 

 houses. Twenty years after, the otiier does like- 

 wise. Also that our new house made that old 

 grapery look so badly, Mr. Bradley couldn't stand 

 the contrast. 



Evidently Hitchings were building satisfactory 

 houses twenty years ago. I5vidently twenty years 

 later they are still building satisfactory houses. 



You know we go anywheres for business. Or 

 to tnlk business. 



HticliingS !^ (-Linpanv* 



NEW YORK, 1170 nroadivay 



BOSTON, *9 Frilrral Strert 

 General Offlces and Factory, Elizabeth, N. J. 



rillLADELPUIA, 40 B. 15th Street 



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The Old Reliable House— Forty Years in the Wholesale Business 



Welch Bros. Company 



Have Taken Over the Business 

 of 



PATRICK WELCH 



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262 Devonshire Street, Boston 



It lick Welcli assiime.5 tlie Office of President and Treasurer. 



The Above Consolidation with : 



Our enlarged and letter stocked Supply Department — Our ini- 



pidviM] f;ici]itios for handlin<r cut flowers, with the production of 



New England's best growers — 



Enables us to better fill tne wants of the trade 



Welch Bros. Company, 262 Devonshire Street, Boston 



PHONES, MAIN 6267, 6268, 2698. 5948 



