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AUGUST 17, 1905. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



727 



SKINNER'S PATENT SYSTEM OF IRRIGATION, TROY, 0. 



Tbose who have not felt tbe need of Irrigation need not take the time to look over tbls page, but to tbose wbo bare suffered from dry 

 weatber and wbo wish to reduce the chance of a failure to a minimum, I would like to explain why they are maklnir a mistake in not installing 

 the Skinner system of irrigation on their grounds. To tbe gardener and florist, whose crop value often run up into tbe hundreds of dollars to 

 the acre, tbe ability to apply water as needed, and in a way that will be beneficial to tbe crops, will often pay for tbe outlay several times over 

 in one reason. One of my customers stated that with one line of my irrigation, 120 feet in length, he was able to grow $90 worth of spinach. 



The cost of my system is so small, compared to the results obtained, that there is no reason why every one wbo grows a crop should not 

 have at least part of their ground fitted out with it. As compared with the lawn-sprinkler system, my system can be put up complete, pipe, 

 nozzles and labor, for less than tbe nozzles cost in tbe other, while in results there is no comparison whatever. 



Tbe great mistake many make in _____^^_^^^_^____^^^^^^^__^_^^^___^ obtaining water. No tank is necessary' 

 this matter is to wait until the drought ^^ i tbe water being pumped directly into tbe 



comes before they start to put in tbe irri- r^'J^mtit jl ■)■ pipes with a steady, uniform pressure. 



beSn°to''f°reJzT b'Jfore'' you^'buy W' .^ ^SwJ lA , 1| The illustrations here given are from 



Ylt*?be°drougbt fs'L^s'cerU^n t^'o'^come'is f/^MSmM ^^M i^ndThL\°nTo°n,';ixt."nThnw^if.n«iv.Yv 



thp poid and voiir loss in thp onp oasn in » A^ffi^SiSSBlMiflHlS ""^ "''^^ *° ^°™^ extent how extensively 



as certain as ^n the other The Sktane? 11 ///flBll«tlPi»L ^^^ Skinner system is being installed. This 



?^=^™nn«« J,?.,«1- n^f«roiSr S.T» ,f^ \wMm kFW^ M^S STSk. firm was amoHg tbe first to Install the 



Ha^^f7. nnt in'thl w«^nf nnifi^HnS vll^SmWOHwP^ System «!> the east aud have been un- 



right. It is not in the way of cultivation N$i?!:jlHKPi mM IW Hi l!lc=^ stinted fn their praise of it from the start. 



Their place at Rlverton, N. J., is too well 



and is always ready for use. 



Buy your outfit now and put up at 

 least a line this fall. Tou will then know 

 just how to put it up and will lose no 

 time when the dry weather comes. Five 

 acres can be nut up in three or four days 

 after you know how to go to work with 

 it. Tbe nozzle cost per acre is but $10 

 and but 800 feet of pipe is required. 



Oar pumping outfits are built by 

 one of the best known firms in tbe world 

 and have been recently improved, until 

 today they represent an ideal method of 



known to need description. It is one of 

 the show places in this country and all 

 florists, when in the east, make it a point 

 to pay it a visit. 



Another place in which the system 

 has been installed to a large extent is at 

 the Cottage Gardens at Queens, N. T. 



One of tbe largest overhead irrigat' 

 ion plants in this country is at Newbem- 

 N. 0., on the farm of Hackburn & Wir 

 letts. Two years ago this firm was irri' 

 gating about five acres with tbe lawn' 

 sprinkler system and it was with much difficulty that they were induced to give 

 the Skinner system a trial ; since then they have put in about 17 000 nozzles. 



At Wilmington, N. 0., Mr. D. N. Cbadwick bad five acres of lawn sprinklers, in which the nozzles alone cost him $125 per acre. 

 He has since installed the Skinner system, using 12.0(0 nozzles. 



In the short time the Skinner system has been before the public there have been almost 100,000 noszles used, 

 within no case a failure where it was put up according to instmctlons. 



Growers of Chioagro and vicinity can get EBTZMATSS OF TEE SYSTEM PUT UP COMPI^ETE and will also 



BE SHOWN THE SYSTEM IN OPBSATZOH by calling on the ffeeenhonse builders - 



WINANDY BROS., 3727 No. Lincoln Street, CHICAGO. 



Mh. C. W. Skinnkb, Troy, Ohio. Dear Sir : — I am pleased to state that your system of irrigation has given us great satisfaction during 

 tbe recent dry spell. I am only sorry that our entire grounds are not covered with this system, but we are continually adding to same and a 

 few dry seaoons like the one we have just passed tbrough will, no doubt, see tbe greater part of tbe ground covered. 



Philadelphia, Pa., July 27, 1905. Yours truly. HENRY A. DREER, Inc. per J. D. E. 



