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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



November 29, 1906. 



Vegetable Growers 



are quick to see th« maDy 

 advantag^es of the 



WITTBOLD WATERING SYSTEM 



AS THE FOLLOWING TESTIMONIALS WILL SHOWs 



" Some time ago we put In 100 feet of your system on trial and It 

 has Kiven perfect satiafactlon. Send 500 feet more at once and we 

 shall want 1800 feet additional as soon as our new houBes are ready. 

 We think the system a very good thing and consider the labor saved 

 will pay for the apparatus in one season." 



DAVIS BROS., Morrison, 111. 



" We wish to have our entire range fitted up with your watering 

 system. We are much pleased with the working of the section which 

 we have In at present and are perfectly satisfied that the time will 

 be very short till all up>to>date growers will use the TVittboId 

 system Instead of the present method of watering with the hose. 

 When the nozzles are properly spaced, they throw exactly the same 

 amount of water to all parts of the bench." 



W. B. DAVIS & CO., Cucumber Growers, Aurora, 111. 



"We have the Wlttbold system In six houses 33x200 and It works 

 to perfection, doing the watering better than the average man 

 can do with the hose. We will equip our other two plants next 

 season; no more watering with the hose for us." 



CHAM BERLIN & BUNKER, Vegetable Growers, Fremont, Mich. 



''It is the King of Sprinklers; beats everything in the watering 

 line." J. B. ADAMS, Pass Christian, Miss. 



" We are better pleased every day. A boy can do better work 

 with it than a good man can with a hose. It is the only way to 

 water lettuce." R. T. DONNELL, Springfield, 111. 



"As a time-saver, in my estimation there is nothing to equal it and 

 no one realizing Its value will be without the Wlttbold 

 system." WM. EDLEF8EN, Milwaukee, Wis. 



"It is a fine thing and I wonder why greenhouse men have not 

 taken hold more. It should come Into general use. It puts the 

 water on more evenly than the average man will with the hose." 

 STEPHEN HYDE, Vegetable Grower, Carthage, Mo. 



"Your system in our Rose house works so well we want to equip 

 five more houses. The laoor and hose saved will In a short time pay 

 for the system." KLEHM'S NURSERIES, Arlington Heights. 111. 



" We have your system in one of our Ficus houses; it is working 

 fine and is doing as much as ten men would do in the old way iu 

 the same time. We like It so well that as soon as we can arrange for 

 water supply we shall equip our whole place." 



A. C. OELSCHIG & SON, Savannah, Ga. 



"It won't be long before it will be universally used." 



ALOIS FREY, Head Gardener, Lincoln Park, Chicago. 



"The Wlttbold system Is a great success with us, a great labor- 

 saver and certain to be used all over the country In less than no time." 

 R. G. RAU, Florist and Supt. of Parks, St. Joseph, Mo. 



EVERY GBOWEB WIXmIm USE A WITTBOLD MACHIITE as soon as lie becomes familiar with the srood 

 work it does and savlnsr it effects. Send 95.00 for a Swivel Wheel and twenty ^g-inoh Vozzles, which will 

 be enong'h for lOO feet of system. It will be the best investment you ever made. JUST A MIH0TE: that's 

 how long it will take to water an entire house. Send today. 



LOUIS WITTBOLD,!:!>i^!^ 1708 N. Halsted St., CHICAGO 



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wanted any given day; the customer in- 

 stead has opened the negotiauons with 

 the question, * ' How many do we get this 

 morning?" 



Mr. Miesse grows Success and Magnifi- 

 cent, two tomatoes which he originated 

 and which have been distributed to the 

 trade by Wm. Henry Maule, Philadel- 

 phia. He also grows French Marvel. 

 These are all red varieties and very at- 

 tractive when well grown. Mr, Miesse 

 and a number of the Lancaster vegetable 

 growers attended the S. A. F. convention 

 at Dayton and while there saw no exhibit 

 which so thoroughly interested them as 

 Mr. Sim 's display of Comet tomatoes. 

 The result is that quite a number are 

 trying it for next season. 



Mr. Miesse grows Grand Kapids let- 

 tuce, "as near as we can get it," for 

 he says it is a hard matter to get good 

 seed. He states that he thinks it would 

 be better to pay $5 per pound for really 

 good seed than to take the ordinary stock 

 as a gift. 



In the illustration showing the interior 

 view Mr. Miesse and his son stand in 

 the foreground, on one of the cement 

 walks which are in use throughout the 

 establishment. The Skinner system of 

 irrigation is in use for watering and Mr. 

 Miesse says "It is just it." Vegetable 

 growers no longer use the hose. 



Thirty years ago Mr. and Mrs. Miesse 

 started out in gardening on a one-horse 

 Dandy wagon. Now they ride in a rub- 

 ber-tired phaeton, which Mr. Miesse says 

 does not jolt as the Dandy wagon did, 

 and if progression continues at the rate 

 of the last few years he soon will be 

 taking his crop to town each morning in 

 a forty horsepower automobile. 



MECHANICAL WATERING. 



In spite of the fact that the old-style 

 gardener believes that it is as much the 

 proper pressure of his finger at the end 

 of the hose as it is the water that comes 

 therefrom which is a benefit to the plants, 

 still mechanical watering is rapidly be- 

 coming the popular means of supplying 

 moisture in establishments of modern 

 size. 



There are many arguments for the me- 

 chanical system of watering. They have 

 been discussed to such an extent that all 

 over the country both progressive men 

 and lazy have given the system a trial, 

 with the result that the progressive ones 

 usually have increased their use of it and 

 been instrumental in its adoption by their 

 neighbors. The lazy growers sometimes 

 have found nothing in it, for as a usual 

 thing wherever the mechanical watering 

 has failed to give satisfaction it has been 

 because of careless and imperfect instal- 

 lation. 



The mechanical systems have taken es- 

 pecially strong hold among the vegetable 

 growers. Hundreds of lettuce growers 

 now use no hose in handling their crops 

 and the warmest advocate of mechanical 

 watering yet developed is the owner of a 

 big range devoted to cucumbers. Growers 

 of cut flowers have not yet taken up the 

 system largely, but here and there a man 

 who has tried it speaks in its favor, while 

 the voices raised against the system are 

 usually those who have had no experience 

 with it. 



At the establishment of the Henry A. 

 Dreer Co., Eiverton, N. J., several sys- 

 tems of mechanical watering are to be 

 seen in oper«.uon, and are among the 



Comet Tomato 



Those who force tomatoes should grive 

 "Oomet" a trial. This variety has been the talk 

 of gardeners around Boston the past season. 

 Those who have seen it growing declare there's 

 nothing to compare with it. Seed, $5.00 per oi. 



WILLIAM SIM, Cliftondale, Mass. 



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most interesting features as viewed by 

 the many visitors. The Dreer Co. has the 

 piping not only in the fields but in 

 frames. 



The southern truckers are using the 

 lines of sprinklers for another purpose. 

 They have found that they can ward off 

 impending frosts by the use of the 

 sprinkling system. Where fields of vege- 

 tables not equipped with the sprinklfer 

 have been completely ruined by frosts, 

 those in which the sprinkler was kept run- 

 ning have escaped all harm. As one 

 southern trucker says, the systems are 

 likely to revolutionize the trucking busi- 

 ness in the south. 



Sterling, III. — The new greonhouse of 

 the Sterling Floral Co. has been com- 

 pleted and is now being used for grow- 

 ing carnations. It is 25x125 and mod- 

 ern in construction. The company has a 

 fine display of carnations and chrysan- 

 themums. 



Brighton, Mass. — The greenhouses lo- 

 cated at the corner of Spring and Green 

 streets have been sold, together with 

 29,800 feet of land. The total assessed 

 value is $7,000; on the land, $4,500. 

 Henry B. Goodenough is the grantor to 

 Antonio Deluco. 



