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HORTICULTURE 



December 16, lull 



FOR 



HEWS STANDARD POTS 



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TRY 



POT MAKERS FOR 14Q YEARS 



WORLDS LARGEST MANUFACTURERS 



ion Str#0Xf 

 LOMO ISLAND CITY, N. Y. 



WRITE FOR CATALOCUE AND DISCOUNT? 



A. H. HEWS & CO., Inc. 



Main Office and Factoftoa 

 CAMBRIDGE, MASS. 



NEWS NOTES. 



Greenville, III.— The business of 

 Kniile Corboz bas been purchased by 

 1 1 ii. Zbinden. 



Milford, Mass. — The Morningside 

 Greenhouses, W. D. Howard, proprie- 

 tor, were slightly damaged by a blast 

 fired by contractors on December 8. 



Lebanon, N. H. — The Haskell Floral 

 Co. has replaced two of their small 

 greenhouses with one iron-frame 

 bouse 30x130 which will be devoted 

 to carnations exclusively. 



Denair, Cal.— The Schafer-Hogin Or- 

 chard and Nursery Co. has been pur- 

 chased by D. R. & C. S. Schafer, it is 

 reported. The business will be con- 

 tinin (i with sales yards at Denair and 

 Turloek. 



Putnam, Conn. — C. S. Adem is now 

 proprietor of the greenhouses of E. M. 

 \ i 'i 1 1 ili] and they are now known as 

 the East Side Greenhouses. Richard 

 lanson, formerly of Providence, 

 R. I., is in charge. 



West Chester, Pa. — It is reported 

 that the Maple Avenue Nurseries will 

 abandon the "Forty Acres" north of 

 this place. A large farm near Fern 

 Hill has recently been acquired and 

 the work at "Forty Acres" will be 

 transferred to it. This, with another 

 tract near the Hannum farm, will give 

 them several hundred acres in one 

 stretch. 



Falmouth, Mass. — The Falmouth 

 Mushroom Cellars Co., Inc., a new 

 {60,000 Massachusetts corporation, is 

 to build eight houses each 150 feet 

 long for mushroom and vegetable 

 growing. A refrigerating plant and 

 canning machinery will be installed. 

 Two houses each 96x150 will be de- 

 voted to vegetables. The president 

 and general manager is I.ouis C. Whit- 

 ing: treasurer. Dexter V. Wis well of 

 Boston; directors, L. C. Whiting. D. V. 

 Wiswell, John E. Dwight, Dr. George 

 T. Moore and F. L. Milligan of Boston. 

 Dr. George T. Moore, formerly of the 

 Missouri Botanical Garden, will be 

 manager and Mr. Swanson. for many 

 years with the Jackson mushroom 

 plant in Chicago, will be foreman. The 

 plans for the establishment were 

 drawn by Wheelwright. Haven & 

 Hoyt, of Boston: the refrigerating 

 will he installed by the Madison- 

 Cooper Co., of New York and the heat- 

 ing system by Kroeschell Bros. Co., of 

 Chicago. 



PATENTS GRANTED. 



1,010,572. Plant Setter. John C. Ber- 

 horst. Fort Madison. Iowa. 



1,010,813. Weed Cutter. Carl G. Si- 

 gurd, San Jose. Cal. 



1,011,001. Compound Land Roller. 

 Wesley Wright, Blackwell, 

 Okla. " 



1,011,017. Plant Shield. Claibourne 

 Bevill, Bushnell, Fla. 



DREER'S "Riverton Special" Plant Tub 



Manufactured tor us exclusively. The best tuo ever Introduced. The neatest, lightest 

 and cheapest. Painted green, with electric welded hoops. The four largest size* hare 

 (imp bandies. 



HENRY A. DREER, seads, Plants. Bute a nd supp lies, 714 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 



GREENHOUSES BUILDING OR CON- 

 TEMPLATED. 



Woburn, Mass. — Adam Foster, one 

 house. 



Erie. III. — Clarence Peckham, one 

 house. 



Lebanon, N. H. — The Haskell Floral 

 Co., house, 30x130. 



Newburyport, Mass.— C. J. McGregor, 

 Chapel street, one house. 



Concord, Mass. — Harry W. Brigham. 

 Nine Acre corner, one house. 



Washington, D. C. — Gude Bros., 

 Bladensburg road, house. 50 x 350. 



Nashua, N. H.— Mrs. Ella Churchill 

 & Son, 30 McKean street, house 20 x 

 100 



Lexington, Mass. — Lexington Nur- 

 sery (N. F. Comley & Co., proprietors), 

 Bedford street, house, 40 x 350. 



Minneapolis, Minn. — J. Duncan, 

 Thirty-Sixth street and Grand avenue, 

 range of houses, store building and 

 power house, to cost about $20,000. 



FIRE RECORD. 



Keene, N. H. — Fire damaged the 

 greenhouses of A. O. Amidon, West 

 street, on Dec. 2. 



Lowell, Mass. — Fire damaged the 

 flower store of R. A. Griffiths. 133 

 Central street, on Nov. 23. Loss small. 



LArgent, La. — The gin and seed 

 house of E. C. Rhodes were destroyed 

 by fire on Nov. 30. loss $5,000, no in- 

 surance. 



Riverside, Conn. — A greenhouse, gar- 

 dener's cottage and barn on the estate 

 of Jacob Langcloth, was destroyed by 

 Tire on Dec. 5; loss. $20,000. 



Tacoma. Wash. — The office of the 

 Northwestern Floral Co. was visited 

 by fire recently, causing a damage of 

 about $1,00(1 to stock and building. 



Enid, Okla. — Fire caused a loss of 

 i $1500 at the greenhouse of 

 Joshua R. Detwiler. 1116 W. Maple 

 street, on Nov. 30. The boiler house 

 and some of the greenhouse plant was 

 destroyed. Oil stoves and tarpaulins 

 1 much of the stock and business 

 was not interrupted. 



Haverhill, Mass.- Charles H. Kaul- 

 back, florist, sustained a loss of more 

 than $10,000 by fire on Dec. 11. Li 



iihouses, his house, barn and heat- 

 ing plant were all destroyed. The loss 

 in bouse and barn, which were not 

 insured, is about $S,000. and on heat- 

 ing plant and greenhouses over $2,000 

 more. 



1000 READY PACKED CRATES 



STANDARD FLOWER POTS AND BULB PANS 



can be shipped at an tour's notice. Price 



HILFINGER BROS. , Pottery, Fort Edward, N. Y. 

 August Roller 8 Sons, 31 Barclay St, N. Y. City, Apirts. 



OUR SPfClUn— long distance and amort trade. 



Syracuse Red Pots 



"A little pot is soon hot," likewise a thin pot. Tbi« 

 will save you fuel. Our pots are the thinnest and 

 toughest owing to the superior quality of the clay. 

 New price list on application. 



Syracu se Pottery Co., 8Y * N AC Y » 8E 



— STANDARD FLOWER — 



If your greenhouses are within 500 miles of 

 the Capitol, write us, we can save you money. 



W. H. ERNEST 



- 28tb I M Sts., WasBtagtM, D. C — 



RubberStamps, Stencils 



Seals, Steel Stamps, Hotel Baggage and 

 Key Checks, Badges, Burning Brands, 

 Pew Numbers, Numbering Machines, 

 Check Protectors, Stencil Combinations, 

 Steel Alphabets and Figures. Indelible 

 Inks, Stencil Colors and Brushes. Door 

 Plates, Rubber Type. Illustrated Cat- 

 alogue of nearly 100 pages sent with 

 first order or upon receipt of 5 two- 

 cent stamps. Agents wanted. • 



THE REX COMPANY, Harrisburg, Pa. , 

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The FLORISTS' HAIL ASSOCIATION 

 OF AMERICA, insurer of 32,500,000 



8q. ft. Of glass. For particulars address 

 John C Ester, Sec'i Saddle River, N.J. 



