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HORTICULTURE 



November 30, 1912 



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HEWS STANDARD POTS 





POT MAKERS FOR 140 YEARS 



WORLDS LARGESTMANUFACTURERS 



Pearson Street 

 LONG ISLAND CITY, N. Y. 



WRITE FOR CATALOGUE AND DISCOUNTS 



A. H. HEWS & CO., Inc. 



Main Office and Factories 

 CAMBRIDGE, MASS. 



OBITUARY. 

 Orville J. Upham. 



Orville J. Upham, a prominent mar- 

 ket gardener of Needham, Mass., died 

 at his home on Nov. 19, at the age of 

 76. His wife and two sons survive 

 him. 



Charles C. Munsell 

 On November 18, 



sell, for many years 

 ford. Conn., died in 

 a long illness. He 

 Windsor Hill, Conn, 

 he was with D. A. 

 had a store of his 

 years of age. 



Charles C. Mun- 



a florist in Hart- 



the hospital after 



was born in East 



For many years 



Spear and later 



own. He was 77 



NEWS NOTES. 



Walpole, Mass. — The greenhouses of 

 W, B. May have been closed as Mr. 

 May has gone south. 



Dayton, 0.— Fifteen acres of land 

 have been purchased by C. F. Mahan 

 on which he will grow flowers and 

 vegetables. 



Milwaukee, Wis.— The capital stock 

 of the HoltoM & Hunkel Greenhouse 

 Co. has been increased from $50,000 

 to $125,000. 



Allentown, Pa.— The greenhouses 

 formerly owned by A. B. Ellsworth 

 have been moved to the property of 

 Marcus De Long, Thirty-eighth and 

 Linden streets. 



Dayton, O.— Harry Treadway, for- 

 merly at 214 Clayton street, has moved 

 his greenhouses to 513 Valley street 

 and will be known as the North Day- 

 ton Greenhouses. 



Saddle River, N. J.— The clerk of the 

 weather treated the Secretary of the 

 Florists' Hail Association to a nice 

 hail storm last Sunday afternoon. 

 Some of the hail stones were as large 

 as marbles, but there being no wind, 

 there was no broken glass. 



FIRE RECORD. 



Lake City, Minn. — A storehouse be- 

 longing to the Jewell Nursery Co. was 

 totally destroyed by fire recently with 

 all its contents. 



Fredonia, N. Y.— Fire recently de- 

 stroyed a barn belonging to the Larder 

 Floral Co. on Free street. Loss about 

 $2,500, partially covered by insurance. 



Announcement is made by the ag- 

 ricultural department at Washington 

 that five species of insects have been 

 discovered which feed on and destroy 

 the fruiting bodies of the chestnut 

 blight disease, which has been baffling 

 horticulturists and working great 

 havoc to chestnut trees. The beetles 

 eat the blight of the fungus and ex- 

 periments are said to have shown that 

 the.r effectually stamp it out. 



DRIER'S *'Rivertoii Special" Plant Tub 



Manufactured for us excluBlvely. 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. DREER, seeJs, Plants, Bulbs, and Supplies , ]U Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 



CONSTRUCTION OF COLD FRAMES. 



Editor HORTICULTURE: 



We are going to build a line of 

 twenty-seven cold frames and would 

 like some information on same. Would 

 you advise building of wood, brick, 

 concrete, or concrete blocks? Which 

 would be the cheapest of the last three 

 mentioned and how would they com- 

 pare in price to the wood? How deep 

 should we excavate, and how would we 

 make same rat and mole proof? Any 

 information on the above will be great- 

 ly appreciated by a— SUBSCRIBER. 



Horticulture Publishing Co.: 



Referring to the above inquiry we 

 would answer as follows: 



We should advise under ordinary 

 conditions to build the walls of con- 

 crete; prices of material differ in dif- 

 ferent parts, but of the three, concrete 

 walls are ordinarily a little cheaper 

 than brick or concrete blocks. 



If the walls are to be built at a place 

 very near to a concrete block factory, 

 the condition would perhaps be 

 changed. It is hard to say just how 

 much more expensive any one or all of 

 these walls are, than wood, as the 

 prices on lumber are also different in 

 different places. 



We should advise that the pits 

 should be 3 feet to 4 feet deep. The 

 depth of the pit is somewhat a matter 

 of opinion as different purposes re- 

 quire different depths. The only way 

 to make such pits thoroughly rat and 

 mole-proof is to make the side walls 

 and bottom of masonry, preferably of 

 concrete. When heat is required in 

 such pits or frames it is easy to place 

 two lines of 2-inch pipe, one on each 

 side wall, one flow and one return. In 

 many cases, however, the only heat 

 used is that derived from bed of man- 

 ure in the bottom of the pit. 



We would suggest that "Subscriber" 

 obtain a copy of booklet "Two P's, or 

 the Pleasure and Profit of Cold Frames 

 and Hot Beds," published by Lord & 

 Burnham Company, which may be had 

 for the asking. 



FRED J. ELDER. 

 Mgr. Boston oflice Lord & Burnham Co. 



OR 



GREENHOUSES BUILDING 

 CONTEMPLATED. 



Madbury, N. H.— W. H. Elliott, ad 

 dition. 



White Hall, III.— White Hall Green- 



houses, Samuel Rimbey, proprietor, 

 range of houses. 



Angola, Ind. — R. Ford Carpenter, 

 one house. 



Los Angeles, Calif. — Harrison Gray, 

 one house. 



Greens Farms, Conn. — E. T. Bedford, 

 90 foot house. 



North Adams, Mass. — Rudolph Mar- 

 shall, addition. 



Dixmont, Pa. — Dixmont Hospital, 

 house 25x100. 



Alton, III. — Newman Floral Co., 

 house 25x100. 



Westport, Mass. — Earle P. Charlton, 

 range of houses. 



Auburn, Me. — Roak Greenhouses, 

 High street, one house. 



Guilford, Conn. — B. A. Latham, 

 Graves avenue, addition. 



Columbus, Ohio — William Burst, 

 Mound street, one house. 



San Antonio, Texas — P. A. RobeK 

 son. Moon street, one house. 



East Haven, Conn. — John Long & 

 Bro.. 241 Ferry street, one house. 



Lansing, Mich. — C. L. Going, East 

 Grand River avenue, house 21x100. 



Denver, Colo. — C. A. Benson, South 

 Grant and Yale avenue, one house. 



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