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HORTICULTURE 



December 23, 1911 



FOR 



HEWS STANDARD POTS 



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POT MAKERS FOR 140 YEARS 



WORLDS LARGEST MANUFACTURER* 



P wn on Street, 

 LONG ISLAND CITY, N. Y. 



WRITE FOR CATALOCUE AND DISCOUNT? 



A. H. HEWS & CO., Inc. 



Main Office and Factories 

 CAMBRIDGE, MASS. 



NEWS NOTES. 



Canandaigua, N. Y. A nursery will 

 be established here by Edward Sick 

 on land recently acquired. 



Madera, Calif. — Property which they 

 will use tor nursery purposes has been 

 purchased by Kirkmaa & Son of Fres- 

 no and Merced. 



New York, N. Y. — A new wholesale 

 cut flower firm, under the name of 

 Pritchard & Donahue, has opened 

 headquarters in the Coogan building. 



Pittsburgh, Pa. — The greenhouses of 

 James Gross, Larimer avenue, have 

 been purchased by Ray Dasbach. who 

 will use them to grow decorative 

 stock. 



Marlboro, Mass. — Joseph Barry, of 

 Hildreth street, has purchased the 

 Warren Howe place on Main street, 

 where he will carry on a greenhouse 

 business. 



Danville, Pa. — The firm of Briscoe 

 & Benthey, proprietors of the North 

 Independence street greenhouses, has 

 been dissolved, Mr. Benthey becoming 

 sole proprietor. 



Milwaukee, Wis. — The greenhouses 

 of R. Heiden, Green Bay road, have 

 been leased by Henry Dobberphul. for- 

 merly in the plant department of Hol- 

 ton & Heinkel Co. He intends to grow 

 stock for the local market. 



Milwaukee, Wis. — Property at 581 

 to 583 Jackson street has been pur- 

 chased by Fred B. Davis, proprietor 

 of the M. A. McKenney Co., retail flor- 

 ists. The building will be remodeled 

 and used as headquarters for the com- 

 pany. 



Jacksonville, Fla. — The Tomlinson- 

 Key Floral Co., who have just opened 

 a flower store at 40 East Fourth 

 street, is a new firm. The company is 

 capitalized at $10,000 with T. W. 

 Mitchell, president; W. W. Key, vice- 

 president, and H. H. Tomlinson. secre- 

 tary. H. H. Tomlinson has charge of 

 the -lore and W. H. Key of the green- 

 houses. Thej intend to build green- 

 houses al i ii' e 



Longmeadow, R. I.— Wm. C. Pratt & 

 Son. Maplehurst greenhouses, who are 

 just completing a 2Sx 123 foot house 

 have one section already filled with 

 plants. They are growing carnations, 

 sweet peas, tomatoes, lettuce, cauli- 

 flower and bedding plants. The com- 

 pany is composed of Wm. C. Pratt and 

 Stuart G. Pratt. E. A. Mallette, for- 

 merly florist and greenhouse man at 

 the Rhode Island College, Kingston, 

 R. I., is superintendent. 



TWO 



BEAUTIFUL 

 BOOKS. 



HOLIDAY 



L. C. Page & Co., publishers, have 

 just issued two notable volumes in 

 The Art Galleries series which should 

 make acceptable holiday gifts for any- 

 one interested in art literature. 



The British Museum, Its History and 

 Treasures, is a book of engrossing in- 

 terest, by Henry C. Shelley, author of 

 Inns and Taverns of London, a writer 

 of recognized ability and graceful 

 style. There are sixty fine illustra- 

 tions, reproductions of the priceless 

 treasures which have been assembled 

 from all parts of the earth in this 

 great London institution, and depict- 

 ing in the most vivid manner the arts 

 from the beginning of civilization 

 down to the present time. 



A companion volume for the fore- 

 going is The Pennsylvania Academy of 

 the Fine Arts and Other Collections 

 in the Historical Society, Independence 

 Hall, etc., in Philadelphia, by Helen 

 W. Henderson. This "book is profusely 

 illustrated with full-page plates in 

 duogravure. The story of the pictures 

 is told in a most interesting way, and 

 will furnish perennial pleasure to its 

 possessor. Like the book previously 

 mentioned it is handsomely bound in 

 cloth with richly decorated cover. The 

 price of each of the volumes is $3.00 

 net. L. C. Page & Co., publishers, 53 

 Beacon street, Boston. 



OR 



GREENHOUSES BUILDING 

 CONTEMPLATED. 

 Mich. — Arthur H. Dew, one 



Mass.- C. M. Gibbs, one 



Albion, 

 house. 



Monson, 

 house. 



Brighton, Wash. — A. E. Buxton, ad- 

 > i i t inn. 



Franklinville, N. Y. Fred Myrick. 

 one bouse. 



New Haven, Conn. — Sokol Bros., 

 Hard street, one house. 



Springfield, O. — American Rose & 

 Plant Co., four houses each 24x150. 



Smith's Ferry, Mass. — Gallivan 

 Bros., of Holyoke, two houses 85 x 200. 



Lord & Burnham Co. have secured 

 the following contracts: Mrs. W. G. 

 Nichols, Rye, N. Y., range of conser- 

 vatories; Wm. H. Gregory, Sea Girt, 

 \. J., iron-frame house, 35x175; J. W. 

 Swayne, Sea Girt, N. J., house, 30x100; 

 Hun Olnny Canning Co., Oneida, N. Y., 

 nine iron-frame houses, 33x150 each, 

 cost $30.0110, for vegetable forcing. 



INCORPORATED. 

 Port Huron, Mich. — The Peninsular 

 Seed Co., capital stock $40,000. 



Hodgenville, Ky.— The Red Hill 

 letery Commission. Incorporators, 

 William Miller, John Read and Charles 

 Williams. 



DREER'S 



Florist Specialties. 



New Brand New Style. 

 Hose'RIVBRTON" 



Furnished in leoghu up 

 to 500 ft. without seam or 

 joint. 



The HOSE for tha FLORIST 

 %-inch, per ft., 15 c. 

 Reel of 500 it.. " mHc 

 a Reels, 1000 ft./' 14 c. 

 W-inch, " 13 c. 



Reels, 500 ft., " 12HC 



Couplings furnished. 



HENRY A. DREER, 



714 Chestnut St., 



Philadelphia, Pa. 



1000 READY PACKED CRATES 



STANDARD FLOWER POTS AND BULB PANS 



HILF1NGER BROS. , Pottery, Fort Edward, N. Y. 



August RolKer & Sons, 31 Barclay St., N Y. City, Agents 



OUR SPECIAITT— long distance anil emort trade. 



Syracuse Red Pots 



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

 will save you fuel Our pots are the thinnest and 

 toughest owing to the superior quality of the clay 

 New price list on application. 



Syracuse Pottery Co., 



SYRACISI 

 N. Y. 



— STANDARD FLOWER — 



POT S 



If your greenhouses are within 500 miles of 

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



W. H. ERNEST 



_ 28th & M Sts., Washington, D. C. -_ 



ALL THE CLAY 



FOR OUR 



Florist's Red Pots 



is prepared by passing 

 through a screen 1 600 meshes 

 to the square inch II in a 

 hurry for pots, order frcm us. 

 IKE PETCHS I IEE0 PITTEBT Ct. 

 Z.-nes.lllt Okie 



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- 

 rent stamps. Agents wanted. 



THE REX COMPANY, Harrisburg, Pa. 



The FLORISTS' HAIL ASSOCIATION 

 OF AMERICA, insurer of 32,500,000 

 S<J. ft. of glass. For particulars address 

 John C Ester, S«e'« Saddle River, N. J. 



