THE E. Q. HILL COMPANY 
RICHMOND, INDIANA 
HIS firm began business thirty-two years ago, on East Main Street, with a little bunch 
of glass and a capital of some $4,500. 
We soon outgrew the location and built on a ten-acre field adjoining the city park 
where we have had delightful hours with many visiting friends in the trade, and where Richmond 
Rose first saw the light. 
In I 906, again needing more room, and being closed in by the city park on two sides, we 
moved to our present location which is absolutely ideal for a greenhouse shipping trade: we 
have sixty acres, bounded on the north by the Pennsylvania Railroad, from which we have a 
side track, and an Adams Express Office, enabling us to load our boxes directly aboard the train 
from our own platform; we are bounded on the east by the city traction line which runs over a 
newly macadamized avenue, with terminus at our doors. 
Our first plant consists of eleven houses, each 500 feet long and five houses each 200 feet 
long, with the office and necessary packing sheds. 
In this plant are grown chrysanthemums, forcing roses, and here the grafting is done, while 
three large houses hold the carnations grown for cuttings only. 
In the new plant are four wide houses, each 400 feet long, without partitions, given over 
entirely to blooming carnations, 70,000 all told. 
We have had a great many visitors the past few months to inspect the construction, which 
is as perfect as a greenhouse plant can be made with our present knowledge and experience. 
I he automatic stokers, concrete work, bench construction, etc., all prove of great interest 
to the average florist. 
We are growing fine stock; come and see it at home. 
In the fields are grown Peonies and Gladioli in large quantity. 
The New Roses of the Year 
MME. EDOUARD HERRIOTT— This wonderful novelty of M. Pernet- 
Ducher’s is the rose that won the “Daily Mail” gold medal in London last 
summer; it will be disseminated in 1914 probably. We shall send it out in 
this country simultaneously with M. Pernet. 
The leaves shine as if burnished; the color is orange of reddish tint, a 
shade seldom seen except in burnished copper; may be seen growing at our 
place. 
MRS. CHAS. RUSSELL has created a sensation second to no novelty 
ever offered. It deserves a test at the hand of every rose grower; it is un¬ 
doubtedly in the class with American Beauty; it makes a grand showing in 
the Montgomery greenhouses and it is a traveler of the most enduring sort. 
MRS. GEO. SHAWYER is an English rose, originating some five years 
ago with Lowe and Shawyer, and will prove a standard variety at once, dis¬ 
puting place with Killarney. Come and see it growing; the bench is “great.” 
MILADY is a red of beautiful rounded form like a fine H. P. It will 
dispute for position with Richmond. Would advise every florist to try some 
of it. 
The PERNET set is an extremely interesting one; this great rosarian is 
doing wonderful work and achieving marvelous results— Rostand and Lutaud 
have the appearance of fine forcing varieties. 
WICHMOSS is the most wonderful break of recent years, and the result is 
a “Baby-Moss” that is a lovely surprise to every one who sees it. 
A little talk 
with our 
customers 
about 
“ What’s 
What” in 
the new 
Roses. 
Every novelty 
on this list 
is of unusual 
promise of 
excellence. 
