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Title: Florists' review (microform)
Identifier: 5205536_20_2 (find matches)
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Subjects: Floriculture
Publisher: Chicago : Florists' Pub. Co
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Srptembkk 12. 1907. The Weekly Florists^ Review* t3 rate, the same size of house requires fourteen runs. This means forty per cent additional boiler plant, forty per cent additional piping and forty per cent additional fuel. Add to this the expense of extra mains and returns, which are needed for separate houses—and which in some cases have to be run underground or possibly outdoors—and you will realize the advantages of connected over sepa- rate houses. Snow Storms Not Troublesome. When we first built connected houses all sorts of troubles were predicted for us from the heavy snow storms which we experience in our latitude, but, as a mat- ter of fact, we have had practically no trouble at all. Iron being a conductor of heat, the snow will melt during an ordi- nary snow storm nearly as fast as it falls. On the other hand, after a severe storm I have seen the gutters full of snow from ridge to ridge. Two days afterward the gutters were clear, while the north sides of the separate houses were partly cov- ered with snow, owing to the ice hanging on the eaves and preventing the snow from sliding off. Of course this applies to iron construction. I would not, under any circumstances, favor connected houses with wood gutters in this locality, but with iron gutters and a run of steam pipes under each gutter, no trouble will be experienced from snow. Not only is the glass clear practically all winter, when light means growth, but the break- age of glass is practically nil, unless un- der exceptional circumstances such as we had to contend with last year, when it was raining and freezing at the same time, forming a coat of ice all over the glass, which, as it thawed, slipped down in chunks and broke the glass on the op- posite roof. This has only happened once in four years, and in consideration of the advantages above named we are willing to overlook this one break. Evenness of Temperature. Regarding the advantages of connected over separate houses from the growers' standpoint, I would not like to go on rec- ord as saying that better results can be obtained in block houses, but will try to point out some of the advantages of large blocks of houses over smaller, separate houses for the cultivation of flowers and plants. It is a recognized fact that a better circulation of air can be obtained and a more even temperature maintained in a large than in a small house, for the reason that in separate houses variations of heat and cold are localized, mainly owing to the fact that the bulk of the heating pipes have to be placed near the sides of the houses, which are the coldest places. This is especially the case in small houses, and every grower knows the trouble and loss resulting from this excessive heat. Not only does red spider breed here, but the plants next the pipes always have a dried-up appearance which is not noticeable before heavy firing com- mences, and disappears entirely after firing ceases. On the other hand, in a block of houses the heating pipes can be distributed in single or double runs along every path, and a more even temperature, without excessive heat in any one part of the house, can be maintained. Admission of Light. Advocates of separate houses claim better light by the prevention of the roof of one shading its neighboring house and by the admission of light at the side; but the modern construction of connected
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Gladiolus America. houses has so reduced the light-obstruct- ing features of the roof as to much weaken the force of this contention. An iron gutter five inches wide throws very little shade, and this shade is not station- ary by any means. The shadow cast by the gutter moves with the sun, and there is absolutely no space in connected houses that cannot be utilized to full advantage. On the other hand, the advantage that advocates of separate houses claim in the increasing of the width and consequently the height of separate houses is in itself an argument in favor of connected houses, since, as far as side light and equal distribution of heat are concerned, there is practically no difference bfetween a single house 150 feet wide and a block of connected houses 150 feet wide; but the circulation of air will be much more perfect in the block of houses than in the said single house. For the wliolesale grower of cut flow- ers connected houses have a great eco- nomical advantage over separate houses, and the produce from these blocks cer- tainly cannot be excelled by the produce from spparatc lionses. That fact is strongly in evidence at such places as the Dale estate, J. H. Dunlop's, W. Gam- mage's, and many smaller establishments throughout the country. For the retail grower who grows a lit- tle of everything, connected houses may not be such a great advantage as to the larger grower, unless two or more houses of one class of plants are grown, when connected houses can be built and prove a success, both from a grower's and from an economic point of view. But whatever houses you intend to build, be sure to use iron gutters, or eaves, as the case may be, not only for their lasting qualities, but for the sake of light in winter and the saving from the non-breakage of glass. GLADIOLUS AMERICA. Gladiolus America, which has been in a few of the wholesale markets in previous seasons, at first under the name of Ruben H. Warder, which is the title given it by Frank Banning, of Kins- man. O., is now seen in all the prin- cipal markets. Since John Lewis

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