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HORTICULTUEE 



September 28, 1912 



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HEWS 



STANDARD 



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POT MAKERS FOR 140 YEARS 



WORLr .ARC EST MANUFACTURERS 



Pearson Street 

 LONG ISLAND CITY, N. Y. 



WRITE FOR CATALOGUE AND DISCOUNTS 



A. H. HEWS & CO., Inc. 



Main Office and Factorte* 

 CAMBRIDGE, MASS. 



NEWS NOTES. 



Quincy, III. — The McCook Green- 

 houses have been purchased by E. C. 

 McKay. 



Sharon, Pa. — O. E. Hall has sold his 

 flower and vegetable business to W. B. 

 Hacbett. 



Coblesklll, N. Y. — The greenhouses 

 of the late D. C. Dow are now being 

 run by Martin S. Borst. 



Natick, Mass. — The greenhouse of 

 Bernard Darling has been purchased 

 by James Fitzpatrick. 



Hartford, Conn. — It is reported that 

 Willis H. Shumway intends to sell his 

 greenhouses, owing to ill health. 



Keokuk, Iowa — It is reported that C. 

 H. Wolfe, florist, 708 Main street, has 

 sold out to R. G. Schlotter, of 416 Main 

 street. 



Providence, R. I. — Amos Darling, be- 

 tween Oakland and Glendale, lost 

 most of his glass by hail on Septem- 

 ber 12th. 



Chicago, III.— An office at 143 North 

 Wabash avenue will be opened by E. 

 Bollinger, landscape architect, of Lake 

 Forest, III. 



Davenport, Iowa — The greenhouses 

 of J. W. Davis, 2901 North Brady 

 street, have been leased by H. Koop- 

 man. He will do a retail business. 



Paw Paw, Mich. — The downtown 

 store of the Wolverine Nursery Co. 

 has been closed and all business will 

 hereafter be done at the packing shed 

 office. 



Oakland, Cal. — Shima & Satow are 

 now owners of the business of the 

 Continent Nursery Co. They will do 

 business under the name of the Jones 

 Avenue Nursery Co. 



Jacksonville, Fla. — Mills, the Florist, 

 36 West Forsyth street, has taken a 

 long lease of the property and will 

 make extensive alterations, adding a 

 fine display refrigerator. 



West End, N. J.— W. G. Eisele is 

 closing out his nursery stock. The 

 sale will be on October 9th, when W. 

 J. Elliott of New York will swing the 

 hammer and sell without reserve to 

 the highest bidder. 



Grand Rapids, Mich. — To enable 

 them to take over the properties of 

 the Grand Rapids Greenhouse Co., 

 Reed & Cheney have increased their 

 capital stock from $10,000 to $100,000. 

 Charles L. Reed is president; Carl W. 

 Wiley, vice-president; and H. J. 

 Cheney, secretary and treasurer. 



Groton, Mass. — H. Huebner is pick- 

 ing several boxes of strawberries a 

 day at present. The variety is one 

 which he got from Europe several 

 years ago. The crop is heavy and the 

 fruit is first quality as to flavor and 

 medium as to size. The plants throw 

 some blooms in spring, all of which 

 he picks off. 



Lowell, Mass, — W. E. Beach, who is 



building a greenhouse 30 x 200 feet at 

 Caster and Lawrence streets, as re- 

 ported in the September 14 issue of 

 HORTICULTURE, writes that he has 

 leased the greenhouse owned by Swan- 

 sen & Delgren, who ran it for two 

 years and then leased it to James 

 Harding & Son, who went out of busi- 

 ness last June. Mr. Beach will do a 

 wholesale cut flower business, ship- 

 ping his stock to Boston. 



INCORPORATED. 



New Washington, Ohio — Cranberry 

 Nursery, capital stock $5,000. 



Columbus, Ohio — Farmers' and Flor- 

 ists" Chemical Co., capital stock $125,- 

 000. To manufacture and sell fertili- 

 zers. 



Dallas, Tex. — Richmond Hill Floral 

 Co. Incorporators, A. Miller, A. M. 

 Vaughan, and J. W. Crotty. r,ll of 

 Dallas. 



Punxsutawney. Pa. — Indiana Floral 

 Co., capital stock $15,000. Incorpora- 

 tors, S. Taylor Schafter, Virginia M. 

 Schaffer, Earl H. Snyder, and Lydia 

 Snyder. 



Fort Payne. Ala. — Wills Valley Nur- 

 sery Co., capital stock $100,000. Oscar 

 V. Case, president; Nathan W. Hale, 

 vice-president; A. I. Smith, secretary 

 and treasurer. 



Norfolk, Va. — Franklin Plant Farm, 

 Inc., capital stock $10,000. Frank 

 Brunton, president; Frank Dillingham, 

 vice-president; A. C. Dillingham, sec- 

 retary and treasurer. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



Framingham Nurseries, W. B. Whit- 

 tier & Co., Framingham, Mass. — Fall 

 Trade Catalogue of Shade and Orna- 

 meiital Trees, Evergreens, Roses, 

 Small Fruits. Net prices on healthy, 

 vigorous stock. 



Howard & Smith, Los Angeles, Cal. 

 — Bulbs, 1912. Sparaxis on front and 

 narcissi on back cover show up beau- 

 tifully in soft tones. Amaryllis hy- 

 brids, watsonias and giant ranunculus 

 are among the choice things illus- 

 trated inside. 



PUBLICATION RECEIVED. 



Annual Report of Public Parks 

 Board, Winnipeg, Canada. From this 

 interesting report it appears that Win- 

 nipeg has now nearly 600 acres of 

 public reservations, well kept up and 

 being added to from time to time. 

 Many very attractive half-tone views 

 adorn the volume and a complete map 

 of the city is bound in. The superin- 

 tendent of parks is G. Champion. 



Olmsted Bros., Brookline, Mass., 

 have been retained to take charge of 

 all the Denver (Colo.) park and civic 

 improvement projects, together with 

 the proposed mountain park and ap- 

 proaches. This firm has also the con- 

 tract for the improvement of the water 

 front of Toronto, Ont., Canada. 



OBITUARY. 



Stephen E. Meagher. 



Stephen E. Meagher, florist, 1659 

 Amsterdam avenue, New York City, 

 died at his home recently, aged 37 

 years. He began business over twenty 

 years ago at 197 Varick street. The 

 business will be continued by his sis- 

 ter. 



Charles Seeley. 



On September IG. Charles Seeley, 

 florist, 739 Grand avenue, Jersey City, 

 N. J., died suddenly after an attack 

 of acute indigestion. He was 53 years 

 of age and leaves a widow, two sons 



It is with regret that we learn of 

 two deaths in Cincinnati. Michael 

 Baer, father of Julius Baer, and W. R. 

 Miller were gathered to their fathers. 



DREEPL'S 



Florist Specialties. 



New Brand. New Style. 

 Hose "RIVERTON" 



P'urnished in lengths up 

 to 500 ft. without seam or 

 joint. 



the HOSE for the FLORIST 



3^-inch, per ft., 15 C. 

 Reel of SCO ft., " 14^0. 

 2 Reels, 1000 ft., *' 14 C. 

 J4-inch, " 13 c. 



Keels, 500 ft., '* 1254c. 

 Couplings furnished 



HENRY A. DREER, 



714 Chestnut St., 

 Philadelphia, Pa. 



1000 READY PACKED CRATES 



STANDARD FLOWER PGTS AND BULB PANS 



Price 



$4.50 

 .5.24 

 4.51 

 3.78 

 3.16 

 4.20 

 3.00 



,N.Y. 

 Aeenb 



can lie shipped at an huur's notice, 

 per crate: 



E(IOO 1% in. @ ?6.(I0 500 4 in. ( 



1500 2 •■ '• 4.SS 4.36 4V, '• 



1500 2% " " 5.2.5 320 5 



1500 2ii " '■ 6.00 . 210 SVo •' 



lOOO .■! " " 5.0O 144 6 



SOO 3% '• " 5.80 120 7 

 60 S 



HILFINGER BROS., PolHry, Fort Edward, 



August Roiker & Sins, 31 Barclay St., N. Y. City, 



Oei SPECULTY-Uie Distance and attrt. traie 



Syracuse Red Pots 



"A little pot is soon hot." likewise a thin 

 pot. This will save you fuel. Our pots are 

 the thinnest ami toughest owing to the 

 superior (juality of the clay. 



New price list on application. 



Syracuse Pottery Co., ^^"n^'v'!*^' 



r-STANDARD FLOWER- 



If your yreenbouses are witbia 500 miles , 

 of the Ciipitol, write us, we can save | 

 you money. 



W. H. ERNEST 



» 38th & M Sts. WaHhii^ton, D. C. 



