August 3, 1912 



HORTICULTURE 



165 



F^OR 



HEWS STANDARD POTS 



99 



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POT MAKERS FOR 140 YEARS 



WORLDS LARGEST MANUFACTURERS 



Pearson Street 

 LONG ISLAND CITY, N. Y. 



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A. H. HEWS & CO., Inc. 



Main Office and Factories 

 CAMBRIDGE, iVIASS. 



Obituary. 



Julius M. Lown. 



Julius M. Lown, violet grower, East 

 Market street, Rhinebeck, N. Y., died 

 recently. He was a pioneer in violet 

 growing in this section but retired 

 about a year ago. 



Mrs. Barbara Rieman. 



Mrs. Barbara Rieman, widow of 

 Charles Rieman and step-mother of 

 John Rieman, florist, 203 Massachu- 

 setts avenue, Indianapolis, Ind., died 

 on July 18 after a short illness. 



John W. Richmond. 



John William Richmond, florist and 

 gardener, died at his home, Bath ave- 

 nue and Bay Thirty-fourth street, 

 Bath Beach, N. Y., on July 22, aged 54 

 years. He came to this country from 

 England twenty years ago. His wife 

 survives him. 



Adelard Provencher. 



Adelard Provencher, employed by Er- 

 nest Saunders, florist of Lewiston, Me., 

 committed suicide at the Daggett farm 

 in Greene, on July 24. Despondency 

 over the loss of his wife Is thought to 

 have been the cause. He was about 35 

 years of age and leaves a daughter, 

 and three sons. 



Caspar Abrams. 



On July 24, Caspar Abrams, florist, 

 Hoyt and Pulton streets, Brooklyn, N. 

 Y., died at his home, aged 80 years. He 

 was a native of Germany and came to 

 this country in 1862, locating in Brook- 

 lyn. He retired in 1900 and turned the 

 business over to his two sons who with 

 three daughters survive him. 



Francis A. Bailer. 



On July 10, Francis A. Bailer, nur- 

 seryman and florist, Franklin avenue 

 and Beecher street, Bloomington, 111., 

 died suddenly at his home, aged 77 

 years. He was born in Somerset, Eng- 

 land, and came to America before the 

 civil war. In 1871 he established a 

 wholesale florist business in Blooming- 

 ton. 



W. J. Hudson. 



W. J. Hudson, manager of the Alpha 

 Nursery & Floral Co., Yellow Pine, Ala., 

 died on July 19. He was formerly with 

 the Southern Nursery Co. and took 

 charge of the Alpha Nursery upon its 

 establishment about two years ago. 

 He was a Virginian by birth and had 

 conducted a nursery in that state be- 

 fore going to Alabama. His wife and 

 a family of children survive him. 



NEWS NOTES. 



Palmyra, N. J. — P. R. Matsinger has 

 sold his greenhouses. 



Hingham, IVIass. — Herbert A. Vining 

 will conduct the florist business of his 

 late brother. 



Waterloo, Wis. — A large nursery 

 storage house will be erected here br 

 the McKay Bros. Nursery Co. 



Dansville, N. Y. — Denton, Williams 

 & Denton is the name of a new nur- 

 sery company recently organized here. 



Hamilton, N. Y. — The Hamilton 

 greenhouses have been leased by Clay- 

 ton E. Risley, with privilege of pur- 

 chase. 



Fremont, Neb. — Over 400 lights of 

 glass in the greenhouses of Andreason 

 Bros., Boulevard and I streets, were 

 bi'oken by hail recently. 



Putnam, Conn. — The greenhouse on 

 Providence street, formerly owned by 

 Alex Main, is being moved to Dr. 

 Shepard's place in Woodstock. 



Quincy, IVIich. — The Park Green- 

 houses, property of Philip Thomas, 

 have been sold to William Reno, of 

 Macon, Ga.. Mr. Thomas retires on ac- 

 count of ill health. 



Peoria, III. — The greenhouses and 

 business of Louis Miller & Sons, Lake 

 avenue and Railroad, have been pur- 

 chased by the Jacobs & Hicken Floral 

 Co., a newly organized firm. 



Beverly Farms, IVIass. — Israel 

 Barnes, who has been conducting the 

 nursery business established by the 

 late Jess Pierce, is to move the busi- 

 ness to Manchester, where he has pur- 

 chased property on Pleasant street. 



IVIontreal, Canada — The property of 

 A. C. Wilshire at Outremont has been 

 sold and a new location further out 

 has been secured T. Gorman's pro- 

 perty, also in Outremont has passed 

 into the hands of real estate dealers. 



Bloomsburg, Pa. — The headquarters 

 of J. L. Dillon will hereafter be on 

 East Fifth street as the property 

 where the Normal Hill houses stand 

 has been sold. The removal of the 

 greenhouses will be done by degrees. 



West Manchester, Mass. — Mrs. R. C. 

 Winthrop has very generously offered 

 the use of the field on her estate for 

 the use of the North Shore Horticul- 

 tural Society for their flower show on 

 Wednesday and Thursday, August 21 

 and 22. The exhibition ought to be a 

 big success and North Shore people 

 will, doubtless, take hold of it with 

 much interest, inasmuch as the society 

 will give the entire receipts of the 

 show to the Beverly Hospital. 



GREENHOUSES BUILDING OR CON- 

 TEMPLATED. 



Butte, Mont, — Butte Floral Co., range 

 of houses. 



Adams, Mass. — A. J. Boothman, 24 

 NSrth Summer street, rebuilding. 



DREER'S 



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New Brand. New Style. 

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Furnished in lengths up 

 t(i 500 ft. without seam or 



The HOSE for the FLORIST 



-):t-!nch, per ft., 15 c. 

 Keel of 500 ft , " H%c. 

 ■2 Re Is. loooft.. " 14 c. 

 J^-inch, " M C. 



Reels. 500 ft.. " i2}4c. 

 Couplings furnished 



HENRY A. DREER. 



714 Chestnut St., 

 Phil-mielphia, Pa. 



1000 READY PACKED CRATES 



STANDARD FLOWER POTS AND^BtllB PANS 



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 per crate: 



2000 1% iii. @ $6.00 500 4 In. @ $4.80 



1500 2 '■ " 4.88 456 4% " " 5.24 



1,=>(X) 2M " " 5.25 320 5 " " 4.51 



1.500 2^4 " " 6.00 210 5% " " 3-78 



1000 3 •• " 5.00 144 6 " " 8.1« 



80O 3V> ■' " 5.80 120 7 " " 4.89 



60 8 " " 3.00 



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