. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom . large or numerous, but they were be-yond the capacity of the firm. The writers own records go back to 1866. At thattime prices were a third or a half higher than they areto-day, which is more than the writer would be willingto admit of the relative excellence of the goods. W^efirst
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom . large or numerous, but they were be-yond the capacity of the firm. The writers own records go back to 1866. At thattime prices were a third or a half higher than they areto-day, which is more than the writer would be willingto admit of the relative excellence of the goods. W^efirst got fairly under way with machinery for makingsmall flower pots in 1869. The father of the under-signed, always disposed to be a little cautious, thoughtthat we should overstock the country and ruin theprices. We did in that year what we thought was awonderful business in flower pots. We exceeded it bya third in the month of October, 1894. Until about 1864 or 1865 common flower pots through-out the world had always been made by hand on the potters wheel. There had been, indeed, many difierentforms of this wheel, but it had always been propelled byhand or foot power. When, in the early fifties, a wheelwas made to be propelled by the foot, with two sizes ofpulleys and a balance wheel whereby the speed of the. 1936. Pothos aureus of the horticulturists (X %). wheel was increased in the proportion of three to one,it was thought that perfection had been reached. Muchtime, though very little money, had been spent previousto the fifties in attempts to make a pot machine. It wasleft to William Linton, of Baltimore, an experiencedpractical potter, to perfect and patent the first him we purchased two machines and the exclusiveright to use them in Massachusetts. In a short time wewere able to make great improvements on his was far ahead of Europe in this kind ofmachinery, as also in improved machinery in is probably safe to say that from time immemo
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