March 15, 1917. 



The Florists' Review 



95 



ROCHELLE PAPER POTS AND BANDS 



Our Square Paper Pots are the Original Im- 

 proved DOUBLE Bottom Square Paper Pots that 

 we have sold for FIVE YEARS. 



They have the best bottom of any pot on the 

 market. 



They are by far the BEST POT on the market 

 in every way. 



They are made with one tack. No glue. 



By ACTUAL TEST they can be made up MORE 

 THAN TWICE AS FAST as a stamped out pot 

 can be folded, assembled and "locked." 



They are made of tlie same new, tough paper 

 that has made our Square Paper Pots and Square 

 Dirt Bands FAMOUS, after FIVE YEARS' TEST 

 by the U. S. Government, the Canadian Govern- 

 ment, International Expositions, large numl)ers 

 of State Agricultural Experiment Stations, City 

 Parks, Public Institutions and many thousands 

 of Superintendents, Florists and Truckers in all 

 parts of the country and Canada. 



We sell no experiments. 



"Enclosed please And a postolficc money order, 

 for which pleatee send us 10,000 3-in. Square Pa- . 

 per Pots by freiglit to Yantic, Conn." Avery 

 Bros., Norwich Town. Conn. 



(Avery Bros, got 0000 of our 3-ln. Pots in 1913. 

 5000 in 1914, 7000 in 1915, 10,000 in 1916 and 

 10,000 this year. They know the merits of our 

 Pots.) 



"Kindly send us by express 20,000 Paper Pots, 

 size 3-ln., for which I inclose check." George 

 Foulsham, Supt., Lenox, Mass. 



(Mr. Foulsliam orders our Paper Pots regularly 

 every year and says, "We grow sweet peas and 

 all our annuals in tliem.") 



"Send by freiglit 5000 3-in. Square Paper Pots, 

 8000 4-in. Square Paper .^'ots." G. E. Hunt, 

 Florist, Rutland, Vt. 



(Mr. Hunt orders our Paper Pots eacli year 

 and knows they are the best there are.) 



Prices of our Square DOUBLE Bottom Pots. 

 (Folding Block and Tacks included.) 

 Sizes 



In. .nOO 1000 .'iOOO 10,000 20,000 50,000 



I','; ...$0.70 $1.00 $4.75 $9.00 $17.80 $44.00 



2 85 1.20 5.70 10.80 21.50 52.80 



•2Vj ... 1.20 1.70 8.10 15.60 30.50 74.80 



3 1.50 2.40 11.25 21.50 42.00 102.00 



4 2.00 3..')0 16.00 30..50 60.00 147.00 



5 2.75 5.00 21.25 40..')0 80.00 197.00 



fi 3.50 6.50 31.00 58.00 115.00 225.00 



CKEASED DIBT BANDS 



l-.SliouId a Dirt Band be CKEASED and the 

 ENDS held togetlier until it is set in place? Yes. 



OUR DIRT BANDS ARE CREASED. CUT AND 

 .SCORED BY MACHINE TO THE EXACT SHAPE 

 and the ENDS HELD TOGETHER. 



NOT "LOCKED" 



2 — Slionld ,tlie ends of Dirt Bands l)e 

 "LOCKED?" NO. Bi'cnuse "locking" does not 

 serve any purpose and is a serious detriment. 



If tlie ends are "LOCKED" the band lias to be 

 TORN OFF when the plant is taken out. 



After tlie bands are filled and watered the soil 

 .settles tight against the insides and they cannot 

 l)e unlocked. 



TE.\RINr, the ends of the bands apart will 

 break many of the "balls" or cubes of soil. 



Get a "locked" band, lock it and try tearing 

 it apart. 



Ours arc niiidc In ST, II' .M'.XKT easily, without 

 tearing, to let tlii' pl;iiit oit. 



Our bauds are iiiaiic of the same special, tougli 



paper that has been PROVED 5 YEARS to be 

 perfect for the purpose. 



They are the BEST Band on the market, but 

 also the CHEAPEST. 



Mr. H. B. Weaver of Bird-In-Hand, Pa., grows 

 Carnations, Mignonettes, Sweet Peas and other 

 cut flowers. He soys of our Dirt Bands: "I 

 Ix'lieve any one using these bands will become a 

 regular customer." 



(He got 5000 Dirt Bands in 1913, 60.000 in 1914. 

 70,000 in 1915, 50,000 in 1916 and has Just or- 

 dered 60,000 for 1917.) 



Mr. J. M. Gager, Willlmantic, Conn., says: 

 "The crop from the plants raised in your Dirt 

 Bands PAID ME THE BEST of any crop of to- 

 matoes grown SINCE I HAVE BEEN IN THE 

 I5USINESS." 



(Mr. Gager has just ordered 10,000 4-in. bands 

 for this year. ) 



Mr. Herbert W. Coulter, Avon, Mass., says: 

 "I am so well pleased with the Dirt Bands that 

 I DO NOT SEE HOW A MARKET GARDENER 

 CAN AFFORD TO GROW PLANTS WITHOUT 

 THEM." 



To show the wide use of our Pots and Bands 

 by Government, State, City and Public Institu- 

 tions we might say that while we are writing 

 this advertisement (Feb. 17th) one mail. Just 

 opened, brought us orders from South Dakota 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, Brookings, S. D. 

 (tliey got 10,000 of our Paper Pots last year 

 and expect to use 20,000 this year) and Board 

 of Regents of Normal Schools, Wliitewater, Wis., 

 ;ind inquiries for prices from New York State 

 College of Agriculture at Cornell University and 

 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. 



We have probably sold 5 times as many of our 

 Square Paper Pots and Dirt Bands as all other 

 firms put together. 



CAUTION 

 Paper Pot and Dirt Band Users Read This, 

 The writer has Just visited a greenhouse where 

 .mother kind of Dirt Bands were used beside ours. 



In one kind the plants were 

 STUNTED 

 only about half the size they were in the other 

 kind. 



.\11 the seed was of the same lot, sown at the 

 siime time and had the same care. 



The greenhouse man said: "It must have 

 been the chip board." 



Tlie greenhouse man had written us: "I wish 

 you would come down to see one thing. Those 



l>ands of liave something the matter 



with them. 



"I set them up at the same time, sowed soed 

 at the same time, same kind, and they have had 



same care as yours and the plants in . — soeni 



to be stunted and those in yours are healthy ami 

 growing under same conditions. 



"It must be in the chip board." 



We went down and examined the plants and 

 found it as stated. 



Five years ago we saw a statement by Professor 

 Massey that the chemicals in a certain kind of 

 paper would kill plants. 



We tried it and found it so. 



Three years ago we rerclvcd siiiiiplcs of Dirt 

 Iliiiuls from the I'licific coast made of tliis paper. 



\Vf sai<l to t-.u'U otht'i-; "That man will go 

 out of Imsiucss." 



We liave not seen liis advertisement in two 

 years. 



Last vear a grower wrote lis that he had 

 bought Dirt Bands on the Pacific coast the year 

 before and they had killed his plants. 



Last year another grower wrote us that the 



plants In bands bought of , a maker of 



Dirt Bands In the Bast, were stunted and not as 

 large or as healthy as in ours, but we did not go 

 to see them. 



A grower about 20 miles from here had all his 

 roses in a large house destroyed. 



He sent for a government expert and the ex- 

 pert reported that it was decaying paper that 

 was mixed with the soil that had killed the crop. 



Chip board is made of ground up old news- 

 papers. That is the reason that all of it is 

 gray. All of the ink cannot be bleached out. 



It may be the chemicals in the printers' ink 

 or some of the chemicals used in the bleaching 

 that kills or stunts the crop. 



We knew that some kinds of paper will kill 

 plants, and we did not sell any Pots or Bands of 

 the paper that we use until we had tried it a year 

 ourselves. 



We will not sell a man a thing that will kill 

 his crop. 



We will not sell it to Mm until we have tried 

 it ourselves and KNOW IT WILL NOT KILL 

 HIS CROP. 



If new, untried material is used It had better 

 be tried in a small way alongside of material 

 that has been used for years and has been proved 

 to have no injurious chemicals. 



We have our paper made in the West and 

 know it has no injurious chemicals. 



There Is no band but ours, that we know of. 

 but what Is made of chip board, thougli some of 

 them are advertised as "cardboard," "manila 

 board," "No. 1 manila board," etc. 



Those that we know of being advertised as 

 cardboard are pure chip board. Those that are 

 advertised as manila board are chip board with 

 a thin skin of manila on one side. 



PRICES OF OUR DIRT BANDS 



Sizes 1000 5000 10.000 20,000 50,000 100.000 



2-in $0.80 $3.80 $ 7.40 $14.40 $35.20 $ 68.00 



2>/>-in. .. 1.15 5.25 10.60 20.70 50.60 97.75 



3-in 1.40 6.50 13.00 26.00 66.00 127.50 



4-in 1.90 9.00 17.50 34.20 88.00 161.50 



SHIPMENTS FROM CHICAOO. ST, LOUIS AND 

 KANSAS CITT. 



We will ship from Chicago, St. Louis or Kansas 

 City, the following Lots, at the prices named, but 

 ran not break the Lots: 



$16.00 for 18,000 1% inch Pots 



$16.00 for 14,000 2 -inch Pots 



$16.00 for 4,000 4 -inch Pots 



$13.00 for 7,000 2'/2-inch Pots 



$13.00 for 5,000 3 -inch Pots 



$13.00 for 2,000 5 -inch Pots 



"Since using Pajier Pots we cannot grow toma- 

 toes to our liking any more in clay pots." — 

 Bennett & Schaffer, Market Gardeners, Green- 

 ford, Ohio. 



EXPERIENCE OF 131 GROWERS 

 Send for FREE Samples of our Square Paper 

 Pots and Dirt Bands and Big Folder giving 131 

 EXPERIENCES of Florists and Market Gar- 

 deners. 



Try our Paper Pots and Dirt Bainls FREE. 

 Order what you want -try them, and if not 

 satisfactory, sliip tlicin Ilk k unci « c will refund 

 yo ir moiii'V. 



StMti' wliitlici- to slii|) liy freiglit or express. 

 Immcdialu .shipment. 



F. W. ROCHELLE & SONS, 31 Main Street, CHESTER, N. J 



Mention Tht R«T<fw whwi yow irrlf . 



Use Rippley^s 



No. 200 Hot Water Heater 



In Kreenbouses, garages, bog and 

 poultry houses, small buildings. 

 Price, $42.50. freight paid. 

 Lonls J. L. Amoureaus, Norton 

 Mass., says: "Year No. 200 Heater 

 cared for onr greenhouse, 7Bxl4x9 

 ft., last winter at 23 t>elow lerot* 



Mail orders direct. Write forclr- 

 enUra of heaters and steamers. 



RIPPLEY MFG. ft STEEL BOAT CO. 

 Box F. Qrafton, llllnolii 



Mention The Review when you write. 



No lOM if yon 

 mend your ■plit 

 cumatiou with 



■0FKRIOB 



CABVATIOM 



■TAPLKB 



860 per 1000; 8000 

 for 11.00, PMtpaid. 



WaicUittHtSti 



422 Mala St. 

 ■BFOBV Sprtarfleld. Mn*«. AVTSB 



Mention Tlio Review when you write. 



Fenton's Square Wood Dirt Bands 



THI BCST WAY 



MADE OF WOOD 



PRICES .500 1000 :!000 



l-^-lnch $0.<H) $!.:« $:i.75 



2- Inch 1.00 1.50 4.35 



2'4-inch 1.25 2.00 5.50 



2''2-inch 1.50 2.23 fi.fiO 



3- inch 2.00 2.75 7.75 



4- Inch 2.50 3.75 9.50 



Have made good. Large repeat 

 orders prove it. They save you time 

 and money and give better results. 

 You will like them. 



The Ideal Dirt Band 



is made of strips of wood, thin as 

 cardboard, cut to lock together, 

 making a stronger and more eco- 

 nomical dirt band than any other 



make. Try them and be convinced. 

 We cut them to fit any bench or flat. 

 Thousands can be set up in a few min- 

 utes. Better give us a sample order. 

 NOW. 



Special prices on larger Quantities. 



THEn>EALDIKTBANDCO.,ETaiisTUle,lnd. 



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