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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



March i;o, 1902 



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C. C. POLLWORTH CO., Milwaukee, Wis. 



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. CONCRETE WALLS. 



From Mluit 1 liave uc,.-a.<i.)iially I't.'id 

 and heard there sefms to have been vari- 

 ous buildings erected of late years 01' 

 concrete material, but I have not heard 

 of any greenhouses being constructed 

 with it for walls. It seems as though this 

 mrterial ought to be very useful lor the 

 purpose. 



Are any readers of the Keview ac- 

 quainted with the use of concrete for 

 building? I intend to try it in a house 

 this spring and would like to know just 

 how to do it. the proper ingredients to 

 use and in what projiortions, and other 

 particulars. A. S. 



Concrete makes an excellent wall for 

 greenhouses. The materials used in its 

 composition are one part, by measure, of 

 good Portland cement to six parts of 

 broken stone, gravel, cinders or broken 

 slag, and which ever of these materials 

 is selected as being most available or 

 cheapest to procure in.your vicinity, great 

 care must be taken to thoroughly screen 

 out any dust, sand or loam, which they 

 may contain, as the presence of such 

 fine matter will require the use of a 

 much greater portion of cement or de- 

 stroy the strength of the whole. 



The procedure is to make a form of 

 rough board,s for the wall intended to 

 be built, or a portion of it. The sur- 

 face of these boards, which are intended 

 to come in contact with the concrete, 

 may, if desired, be washed over with 

 a thin solution of common yellow soap 

 and water, which will prevent the cement 

 in the cimcrete from sticking to the 

 boards when setting. Then mix the dry 

 cement and other selected ingreilient in 

 the portions above named, then wet 

 the mixture with water until the cement 

 commences to run, and continue stirring 

 until all the coarser parts of the com- 

 position are thoroughly covered with a 

 thin coat of cement. Tien throw it into 

 the wall forms and ram thoroughly. This 

 operation is of the greatest imiiortance. 

 as on the ramming depends largely tlu^ 

 strength of the walls. When the material 

 has Iiecome set. remove the boards and 

 you will have a strong and indestructible 

 wall at a low cost. 



Such walls are somewhat porous, and, 

 if desired, may be thoroughly sealed up 

 by slushing the surface with the mixture 

 of one part of cement to two of sand, 

 mixed with water to the consistency of 

 white-wash, to be put on with an "ordi- 

 nary white-wash brush. 



Henry W. Gibboxs. 



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 by tile Society of Ameri- 

 can Fiorists, at lioston, 

 Mass., Aug. 21, 1X90. for 

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