September IG, 1916 



HORTICULTURE 



397 



Est. 17GS 



Pot Makers for a 

 Cantury anda Half 



HEWS 



STRONG 



RED 

 POROUS 



POTS 



Inc. 1904 



World's Larsest 

 Manufacturers 



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

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



HMla for Catalogue 

 mttd Ditcomitu 



A. H. HEWS & CO., Inc., Cambridge, Mass. 



CAMBKIDOa, KABS. 

 Maw TOaK. M. t. 



KING CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, North Tonawanda, N.Y. 



GREENHOUSES 

 We Claim Maximum Strength and Minimum Shadow. Investigate 



BOSTON OFFICE: 113 State St.. Boston, !!■•■. FHII.AI)EI.PHIA OFFICE. Harrison BiUdinK, 16th and Market Stg., FhlladelphlA, Fa. 



DREER'S "Riverton Special" Plant Tubs 



Manufactured for us exclusively. The best tub ever introduced. The neatest, 

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

 sizes have drop handles. 



HENRY A. OREER, seeds, Plants . B ulbs, and Supplies, 714 Chestout Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 



GREENHOUSES BUILDING OR 

 CONTEMPLATED. 



Norman, Okla. — W. A. Rowe, one 



house. 



Aurora, Neb. — F. A. Davidson, one 

 house. 



Clarkston, Mich.— Mrs. F. H. Mc- 

 Claughry, one house. 



Quincy, Mass. — John Fisher, 96 

 North street, one house. 



Niles, Mich. — Adelbert Cemetery 

 range of Garland houses. 



Marshall. Wis. — Spokane Green- 

 house Co., house 35 x 150. 



New Bedford, Mass. — James W. 

 Wooler, 41 Highland street, one house 



Toughkenamon, Pa.— Richards Bros., 

 Lord & Burnham boiler house, 35 x 40. 



Havre de Grace, Md. — Leonard 

 Richards, range of Lord & Burnham 

 houses. 



Utica, N. Y.— Edward Whitton. Wal- 

 nut & York streets, house 40 x 125, 

 completed. 



Washington, D. C— Georgetown Vis- 

 itation Convent. Lord & Burnham 

 house, 18 X 70. 



r- STANDARD FLOWER—, 



If yonr greenhouses «re within BOO 

 miles of the Capitol, write us, we c«D 

 save yon money. 



W. H. ERNEST 



~" Mtk * M 8ts., Washlnrton, D. O. -~ 



FREAKISH FACTS AND FACKLESS 

 f^REAKS. 



Edward G. Murphy, a 70-year-old Waverly 

 farmer, lays claim to attaining !I00 per ci/nt. 

 ellicienoy in corn raising. He ha.s sent tlic 

 Post freak vegetable editor proof in I lie 

 form of nine ears of green corn growing 

 wliere ordinarily only one grows. Farming 

 is only a sideline with Jlr. Murphy. He is 

 a blacksmith for a big express company 

 at its stables in Boston. He leaves home 

 at 5.30 every morning on week days ami 

 gets home around 6.30 at night. The rest 

 of his spare time he devotes to farming. 

 — Boston Post. 



Petersburg. Ind.— J. W. Wilson, an at- 

 torney of this town, has a dead South 

 Carolina poplar tree back of his law ntlice. 

 Several months ago he noticed a sprig of 

 green sprouting from one of the limbs. 

 He knew the tree was dead, and watched 

 the sprout until now it has grown into a 

 large sunflower bush that will be ready to 

 bloom in a tew days. There is no way to 

 get moisture to the sunflower and the limb 

 is less than two inches in diameter, yet 

 it has withstood the drought while vegeta- 

 tion on the earth has perished. 



— Boston Traveler. 



A certain Worcester woman, whose hobby 

 i.s floriculture, is a bit snspiciou.s of em- 

 ployes of the agricultural department in 

 Washington and friends that c.mtribut.'d 

 seeds tor her garden. Early in the si'ason 

 she planted the contents of a seed packag>, 

 according to printed directions. Day by 

 day she watered her garden plot, kept the 

 earth in which she planted the seeds soft, 

 ami waited patiently for chrysanthemums 

 to sprout. She was rewarded a few .veeks 

 ago when she saw tiny sprouts in the gar- 

 den and decided that she was to have 

 flowers of the ilwart variety. She was 

 doomed to be ilisappointed. however, be- 

 cause a caller well versed in horticulture, 

 exclaimed when he saw the greenery, 

 •'What nice lettuce you are going to have." 

 Now the woman is wondering it some one 

 mixed the seeds In the package before or 

 after thev left Washington. 



— Worcester (Mass.) Post. 



PATENTS GRANTED. 



1,196,889. Manufacture of Fer- 

 tilizers. David Shields, Edgeworth, 

 Pa. 



1.197,414. Insect Destroyer. Ninian 

 S. McCracken, Nixon. Texas. 



KROESCHELL 

 BOILER 



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KROESCHELL BROS. GO. 



4e6 W. Erie St. ChlC4ico, III. 



When You Speak 



of ADVANCE Sash Op- 

 erating Device you al- 

 ways think of these Im- 

 portant features : qual- 

 ity, satisfaction and 

 price. What more can 

 be expected besides serv- 

 ice, and we have tliat too. 

 (Jreenhnu.se Fittings also. 

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Richmond, lrd.,i 



ASTICA 



ForfCreenii(ms8 

 Glazing 



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F. 0. PIERCE CO. 



t2W eROIDWM 

 NEW ronK 



BtlcA i. elAstlo and tenaeloa., Admits of 

 i.xpnnftion and contm«tlon. Putty becomes 

 hard and brittle, lirokm class moro easily 

 removed without bronklnir of other class 

 as occurs with hard putty. LAsts loncer 

 than potty. Easy to apply. 



