December 5, 1914 



Personal 



Thomas Henderson, formerly at 

 Meiidon, Locust Valley, N. Y., has ac- 

 cepted a position on the Eastman 

 estate, Tarrytown. 



Mr and Mrs. S. J. Renter of West- 

 erly, R. !■> returned from their stay 

 in " Germany on the Rotterdam, on 

 Tuesday, last week. 



Paul Berkowitz, of H. Bayersdorfer 

 & Co., Philadelphia, has just returned 

 from a highly successful business trip 

 almost across the continent. 



We regret to say that Patrick 

 Welch, president-elect of the Society 

 of American Florists is still confined 

 to his home in Dorchester, Mass., with 

 a severe rheumatic trouble from which 

 he has been suffering for several weeks 

 past. 



Last week Mr. and Mrs. Harry 

 Balsley of Detroit enjoyed a honey- 

 moon trip which included a stay in 

 Boston, New York, Philadelphia and 

 other eastern cities. While in Wash- 

 ington they were guests of William F. 

 Gude and saw most of the points of 

 interest. 



George Waldbart, one of St. Louis' 

 well-known retailers, was held up on 

 Saturday nif^ht, Nov. 28, near his 

 home by robbers, who got $45 in bills 

 but overlooked $300 which he had se- 

 creted in an inside pocket. George 

 got a scalp wound that will keep him 

 indoors, so the doctor says, for about 

 ten days. 



George M. Stumpp, Sr., who was 

 in southern Germany at the time the 

 war began is still there and writes 

 that he will remain through the win- 

 ter. His auto has been returned to 

 him. He has spent most of the time 

 this fall working in the fields help- 

 ing his neighbors gather in their 

 crops. 



NEWS NOTES. 



HORTICULTUBB 



A MODERN HITCHINGS HOUSE. 



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ExTEKioB View. 



The accompanying illustration gives 

 exterior and interior views of the 

 modern house recently erected by 

 Hitchings & Co., of Elizabeth, N. J., 

 for G. H. Sinclair of Holyoke, Mass., at 

 his new place in Smiths Ferry, Mass. 



The house, which is of the most up- 

 to-date construction in every partic- 

 ular, is 60 feet wide and 400 feet long. 

 On one side it is connected to the serv- 

 ice building by a 10 feet by 25 feet 

 passage. Directly opposite this pas- 

 sage a gable was built for future con- 

 nections, as it is Mr. Sinclair's inten- 

 tion to erect several more houses of 

 the same size parallel to the one 

 shown. 



The house is of flat-rafter iron- 



thick concrete wall to the ground. 

 There are two lines of roof ventilating 

 sash which are both operated from the 

 same walk throughout the house. An 

 important feature of the ventilating 

 apparatus is the Tell-Tale Device 

 which is attached to each machine di- 

 rectly above the hand-wheel. This de- 

 vice shows accurately in inches the 

 amount of opening being given the 

 roof sash. 



The house is heated by a gravity 

 steam system, and as it was possible 

 to place the boilers, of which there are 

 two, below the greenhouse floor level 

 there was no necessity of installing 

 traps or any other mechanical means 

 of returning the condensation to the 

 boilers. One-half of the house is 



TRANSPLANTING AMERICAN 

 HOLLY. 

 Editor HoKTurnnE; 



I have a friend, head of several large 

 manufacturing plants, who has cared 

 for plants and flowers from boyliood. 

 For years he has had holly plants 

 transplanted from the wild state. I do 

 not remember of his loss of even one. 

 The plants have averaged over six 

 feet. His place is situated just over the 

 ridge of the bluff. 225 feet above the 

 north end of Narragansett Bay, the 

 ridge sloping for one-half mile to the 

 water, at the west, and exposed to the 

 full blast of winter wind. Beside good 

 care, he rcmoiis all foliage at time of 

 transplautintj. 



His holly plants show as large ber- 

 ries as I have ever seen come from 

 Maryland or the Carolinas. 



Fk.\nk Buffinton. 



Fall River, Mass. 



iNTKiuoR View. 



Hartford City, I nd.— Robert M. and 

 Henrj- B. Henley have purchased the 

 Leach greenhouses. 



New Rochelle, N. V.— Mayor Griffing 

 has appointed a new park board with 

 J. H. Troy as chairman. 



frame construction and there are only 

 two supports across it, giving an un- 

 broken space 34 feet wide between the 

 columns. The central span is sup- 

 ported by a compression truss com- 

 posed of double angles. The columns 

 are of double angles riveted together, 

 and all of the different members are 

 connected to each other by steel gus- 

 set plates. The side posts and rafters 

 are in one piece from the ground line 

 to the column; the roof pitch being 

 obtained by bending the rafters while 

 at white heat. The side posts are 

 bolted to heavy flanged bases. 



The galvanized "Z" shaped eave 

 plates are 7 feet high, and the sides 

 are arranged for continuous side ven- 

 tilating sash directly below the eaves, 

 solid glass below the sash and 5-iu. 



benched for carnations, and in this 

 end the heating pipes are placed un- 

 der each bench, and along the sides. 

 The other end of the house was left 

 open for sweet peas, and the heating 

 coils are carried on the side walls and 

 columns; the returns being placed in a 

 trench which runs both lengthwise 

 and across the house. 



The service building and boiler 

 house is built of cement blocks, and 

 the chimney is of radial brick. The 

 service building contains ample work- 

 ing and storace space, and also very- 

 commodious quarters for two men. 

 Hitchings & Company had the con- 

 tract for the entire job, with the ex- 

 ception of me service building and 

 chimney, which were built by a local 

 contractor. 



