686 



HORTICULTURE 



November 18, la*6 



Est. 176S 



Pot Makers for a 

 Contury anda Half 



HEWS 



STRONG 



RED 

 POROUS 



POTS 



Inc. 1904 



World's Larsest 

 Manufacturers 



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

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



Write for Catalogue 

 and DUcoantt 



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



CAMBKIUUa. MASS. 

 XBW TOBK. M. T. 



If you need a boiler in a hurry telephone or telegraph at our expense 



KROESCHELL BOILERS 



SEND FOR CATALOG 



Kroeschell Bros. Co., 466 W. Erie St., Chicago 



KING CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, North Tonawanda. N. Y. 



GREENHOUSES 

 We Claim Maximum Strength and Minimum Shadow. Investigate 



BOSTON OFFICE: 113 State St., Boston, 



PB1XADEL,PHIA OFFICE. Harrison Diildine, 15th and Market Sts., Pblladelpblo. Fa. 



POT FAMINE HERE. 



A recently published item stating 

 there was a "pot famine" coming, was 

 correct as far as it went; but if the 

 manufacturers of flower pots had their 

 say I believe they would have said 

 "pot famine here." I hear of one pot- 

 tery facing an 8-hour day. with no re- 

 duction in weekly wage — with Satur- 

 day afternoon off; another facing their 

 third 10 per cent raise; another with 

 lack of coal, due to freight conges- 

 tion; another being delayed in de- 

 livery of anew boiler; another had to 

 change to coal as fuel because of pro- 

 hibitive cost of natural gas, and sev- 

 eral others of like nature; each are 

 having their own new troubles in ad- 

 dition to their old troubles of coal, 

 labor and material costs. The muni- 

 tion factories have taken all available 

 labor and the demand for machinery 

 has of course increased the costs of 

 n.achine supplies. 



The whole trouble is this — labor be- 

 ing scarce during the past spring and 

 summer made it impossible for the 

 pottery to make up the necessary 

 stock usually made during the spring 

 and summer of former years and with 

 no stock on hand when the season 

 opened, the demand for pots, with a 

 depleted working force working as it 

 were from hand to mouth, orders pil- 

 ing up, men quitting, almost daily 

 notice of advancing prices of material 

 with continual demand by employees 

 for more money and less working 

 hours — it has come to such a condi- 

 tion of affairs that one potter says 



he feels as though he is no longer 

 "Boss" and that he must shake hands 

 every time he goes through the fac- 

 tory, take his hat off and be extra 

 nice to all employees and. between 

 visiting trade, pleading for additional 

 time for delivery of orders, chasing 

 railroad freight agents for delayed 

 shipments, looking for new labor, and 

 then trying to figure out that his 

 books show balance on the right side, 

 the potter certainly has his hands full, 

 However. I am sure that all the 

 potteries of the country are well 

 equipped and willing to do more busi- 

 ness; the labor situation art! coal are 

 the only doubtful reasons why you 

 have to wait for pots. 



P. M. Read, Sec'y, 

 Pot .Makers' Credit Association 



PERSONAL. 



S. J. Renter, the veteran florist of 

 Westerly, R. I., who has been ill for 

 some time, is reported to be very low. 



Edward J. Norman, Jr., formerly 

 foreman on the Alfred G. Vanderbilt 

 estate, has taken a position as land- 

 scape gardener with A. N. Piersoii. 

 Inc., Cromwell, Ct. 



Assemblyman Arthur Cowee, who 

 led the ticket, practically had a walk- 

 away in his race for re-election to the 

 .\sserably from the Second District, 

 Rensselaer County, N. Y., winning by 

 the handsome plurality ot 2,031, 



Carroll N. Bond, a Brattleboro, Vt., 

 florist, met with an accident recently 

 which cost him the loss of one 

 eye. Mr. Bond was clipping a wire 

 with some cutters when one of the 

 wires sprung back and struck him in 

 the eye. It became necessary to re- 

 move the eye in order not to impair 

 the si?lit of the other eye. 



GREENHOUSES BUILDING OR CON- 

 TEMPLATED. 



South Bend, Ind.— Adam J. Beehler, 

 one house. 



Chestnut Hill, Mass.— L.. K. Liggett, 

 one house. 



Pawtucket, R. I. — Wm. Blease, New- 

 port avenue, house 20x.50. 



Royal Oak, Mich.— J. T. Wolcott, 

 range of houses in the spring. 



Austin, Minn.— W. T. Hanscome, 305 

 West Maple street, house 28x75. 



Ansonia. Conn. — J. O. Raab, 420 

 Norlli .Main street, house 14x27. 



Columbus, O. — Mrs. A. J. Allwood, 

 Uivcr road, two vegetable houses. 



Jamaica Plain, Mass. — Edward A. 

 Cli'.rk, range of King houses completed. 



St. Louis, Mo.— Joseph Haemmerl, 

 Kings Highway, two houses completed. 



NEW CORPORATION. 



Madison, N. J.— The Noe & Ruzicka 

 Co Inc Incorporators. L. A. Noe, 

 Jos. F. Ruzicka. Capital $75,000. The 

 Eibove firm purchased the plant of the 

 IJrant-Hentz Floral Co. and after 

 lome changes will continue to grow 

 loses. Mr. Brant is leaving Madison 

 to devote his time to the extensive 

 plant of Brant Bros, at Utica, N. Y. 



^STANDARD FLOWER_, 



POTS 



If your grccnbouses are within 500 

 miles oC the Cipitol, write us; we can 

 siivc v"U money. 



W. H. ERNEST 



p— aJiKli & M Sts., Wasliinetoli, 1>. l'._^ 



Tile I'lorists Hail Associntion rate of In- 

 BuniiKi. from Nov. Ist, 1918 to Nov. Ist, 

 )!II7 will l><' twenty eonts per livindred 

 sqniire Iret of oinKle tliuk class and oicllt 

 cents per linnilreil siiuure feet of double 

 ttilelt Kliiss. I'or purtieulars address 

 .loHN «; KSI.KK, See., Saddle Kiver, N. J. 



