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HORTICULTUEE 



November 1, 1913 



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You remember that one of the little unpleasantnesses be- 

 tween the biblical Children of Israel and the ancient 

 Egyptian King Pharaoh, was due to his demanding that 

 they make bricks without straw. 



The bricks of those days were crude, hand moulded affairs, 

 baked in the sun. 



Straw was mixed with the clay from the Nile, to hold it 

 \' ^ °r better ; quite as hair is today put in wall plaster. 



'ithout straw, looked like other bricks, but they 

 trength — they crumbled. 



Jumping over a ap of 5,000 years, we come down to the 

 U-Bar greenhouse and its original curved eave construction. 



Other constructions may look like the U-Bar, but, like the 



strawless brick , it is only in the looks — the stability and durab ility 

 js not there. 



If it isn't made with U-Bars, it isn't a U-Bar curved eave house. 



From ridge to sill, the U-Bar bar' ^re one continuous piece of 

 galvanized steel, no splicing — no icuiforcing. 



The chemically treated cypress core bars bear no weight — 

 their only office is to form satisfactory glazing seat for putljr 

 and glass. 



The U-Bar house is the only house built with U-Bars. 



When you buy your greenhouse- -be sure it's not a case^ of 

 bricks without straw. Looks is one thing. Durability quite 

 another. 



Send for catalog. Send for us. Or both. 



U-BAR GREENHOUSES 



PIER SON U-BAR CO 



ONE MADISON AVE. NEWYORK. 



CANADrAn OFFICt, lO PHILLIPS PLACE. MONTREAL 



