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HORTICULTUEE 



December 28, 1912 



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HEWS STANDARD POTS 



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US... 



Pearson Str*et 

 LONG ISLAND CITY, N. Y. 



WRITE FOft CATALOGUE AND DISCOUNTS 



A. H. HEWS & CO., Inc. 



Main Office and Factortos 

 CAMBfilDGE, MASS. 



OUT OF THE GINGER JAR. 



One of our delightful dally experi- 

 ences is to be decorated with white 

 heather and violets for our morning 

 stroll down Chestnut street. This 

 usually happens at 1514 where Liddon 

 Pennock. Bart Cartledge and Charles 

 Kahlert hold sway. They love to do 

 it and say: "there you are — violets 

 blue, for the true love true; white 

 heather for the good luck and the pur- 

 ity; if you don't get some good orders 

 now, George, there's something wrong 

 with those grass seed men!" But I 

 never have the courage to put it 

 up to the grass seed men that way. 

 "Samples, samples, samples; let's see 

 them! We are business men!" No 

 time to listen to a pleasant story or 

 whiff of my heather and violets. I'm 

 a business man too; but I really do 

 wish the fragrance of things — the 

 glorious morning and the sunshine — 

 would illumine my melancholy com- 

 peers. 



Count Burpee out of the foregoing 

 paragraph. No man who is capable of 

 producing the poetry of produce like 

 Burpee in his latest book, should be 

 classed in the melancholy clan. On 

 the contrary, we consider him one of 

 the greatest of poets. We have all 

 heard the same truths about seeds be- 

 fore, but never in the same melliflu- 

 ous language. He is a genius with 

 the gift of telling a common thing in 

 such a way as to make you sit up and 

 take notice and sit down delighted. So 

 different from the Watts doctrine: 



"My thoughts on awful subjects dwell, 

 Damnation and the dead of hell" 



— IV.itts 24-;. 



G. C. Watson 



OBITUARY. 

 Mrs. F. E. Blair. 

 Mrs. F. E. Blair, formerly a florist 

 of Big Rapids, Mich., died in Indian- 

 apolis, Ind., on December 4. About ten 

 years ago she sold her florist business 

 to H. M. Larson and moved to Ann 

 Arbor. She had been an invalid for 

 a number of years. 



P. F. Williams. 



P. F. Williams of Opelika Floral Co., 

 Opelika Ala., and professor of horti- 

 culture of the Alabama Polytechnic In- 

 stitute, at Auburn, Ala., died on De- 

 cember 5. He was born in Massachu- 

 setts and was a graduate of the Massa- 

 chusetts Agricultural College. He was 

 considered an authority on nut grow- 

 ing. 



GREENHOUSES BUILDING OR CON- 

 TEMPLATED. 



Lebanon, Pa.— C. T. Yost, 154 Rise 

 block, two houses. 



Springfield, Ohio — A. F. Shannon, 

 210 East Park street, house 22x70. 



Grand Rapids, Mich. — H. W. Aller- 

 sam, Benjamin Avenue Nursery, one 

 house. 



DRIER'S "Riverton Special" Plant Tub 



No. DIam. Ea. Doz. 100 



10 20 in. $1.45 $18.00 $130.00 



20 18 in. 1.30 14.00 115.00 



1.00 11.25 92.00 



.65 7.00 56.00 



.45 5.00 40.00 



.38 4.00 32.00 



.30 8.50 28.00 



"^lannfactured for ns eiclnsively. The best tub ever Introdnced. The neatest, lightest 

 and cheapest. Painted green, with electric welded hoops. The fonr largest sizes have 

 drop handles. 



HENRY A. DREER, Seeds, Plants, Bulbs, and Supplies , 714 chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 



HELP WANTED 



STOREMAN, .Tble to taise charge and 

 maiie up. Must have references as to hon- 

 esty and sobriety. Steady job. Address, 

 stating wages expected, etc., H. W., care 

 HORTICULTURE. 



SITUATIONS WANTED 



SITUATION WANTED by young man 

 well trained in bedding plant and general 

 retail florist business. Is good designer. 

 Aged 2-3. Not married. Prefers New Eng- 

 land territory. E. W., care HORTICUL- 

 TURE. 



^TOR^SALE 



FOR SALE — Fresh from factory, new; 

 10 X 12, 16 xl8, 18 I 24, double thick. A 

 and B qualities. Market dropped. Now Is 

 the time to buy and save money. Parshel- 

 sky Bros., Inc., 215-217 Havemeyer St, 

 Brooklyn, N. Y. 



DURING RECESS. 



Cook County (III.) Bowling League 



Scores, December 18, 1912. 



CARNATIONS. ROSES. 



Lorman, 139 166 15ft Gnerisch, 166 148 158 



L'berm'n, 117 120 10."> Ca.sey. 166 171 210 



Armsfg. 121 94108 Vilters, 106157 112 



A. Zech, 13415719.1 Byers, 198194 163 



ORCHIDS. VIOLETS. 



Farley, 148168163 A. H'bn'r, 149 172 154 



W. Graff, 188 180 198 .Tacobs. 178156 134 



,T. Noel, 116 137148 Schultz. 160162 164 



■T. Zech, 145178138 .T. H'bn'r, 166135 144 



The attendance was small, owing to 

 the extra work for Christmas. There 

 will be no bowling next week. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



Whilldin Pottery Company, Phila., 

 Pa. — Illustrated Price List of Flower 

 Pots. 



Freeman Orchid Company, Fall 

 River, Mass. — Annual Catalogue, 1912- 

 1913. 



W. Atlee Burpee & Co., Phila, Pa.— 

 Advance Wholesale Seed Prices for 

 191.3; for the trade only. 



Archias' Seed Store, Sedalia, Mo. — 

 Fall Catalogue 1912. Seeds, plants, 

 trees, bulbs, birds, gold fish, etc., etc. 



Andorra Nurseries, Chestnut Hill, 

 Phila., Pa. — Wholesale Price List of 

 Specimen Trees and Shrubs, Fall, 

 1912. 



Bergenfield Nurseries, Thos. W. 

 Head, proprietor, Bergenfield, N. J. — 

 Preliminary List of Novelties and Gen- 

 eral Stock for 1913. Included in this 

 excellent list are dahlias, chrysanthe- 

 mums, carnations, phlox, poppies and 

 iris as specialties. 



1000 READY PACKED CRATES 



STANDARD FLOWER POTS AND BULB PANS 



I— STANDARD FLOWER 



If your greenhouses are within 500 miles 

 of the Capitol, write us, we can s£ 

 you monev. 



W. H. ERNEST 



— 88th & M Sts. Washington, D. C. 



Syracuse Red Pots 



With new and Improved machlneryf we caa 



Bopply your want§ to better adTantsc* 



than ever. 



Special disconnts on largre orders. 



Syracuse Pottery Co., Syracuse 



Send your business direct to Washington. 

 Saves time and insures better service. 

 Personal attention gueiranteed. 

 Thirty yesiTs active service. 



SIGGERS & SIGGERS 



PATENT LAWYERS 



Box 9, National Union Building 

 Washington, D. C. 



Greenhouse Materials anTSd 



IRON or WOOD SASH BARS 



In all len^hs up to 33 feet. 

 Milled to any detail furnished or wll] 

 furnish details and cut materials ready for 

 erection. 



rr3nK V3n ASSCHB, "a^d DwT^I S^ee^'' 

 fEBSET CITY, N. J. 



