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HOETICULTUEE 



December 12, 1914 



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1 A Repeated Announcement 



(i Concerning Our Reconstructed Construction 



<<'rHE only difference between a rut and a grave 



■'■ is in the width and depth" — so says Mr. 

 Sefton, our President. 



Sp'^aking of ruts: For thirty years, the green- 

 house concerns have been building iron frame 

 houses and always spacing the rafters about 8 feet 

 apart and using 16 inch glass. Witli the one thing 

 constantly in mind — that of making a lighter house 

 — various changes have been made in construction. 



In a radical way, different firms have tried vari- 

 ous constructions, even to that of the "fiddle 

 string" type of trussing, which requires that every 

 member shall be in perfect tune or unequal strains 

 are dangerously exerted on a few members. 



Smaller roof bars have been used and fewer 

 columns. Lighter eaves of differing forms have 

 come and gone — 

 but through all 

 these changes, 

 not a change in 

 rafter spacing 

 took place. So 

 over two years 

 ago we climbed 

 out of the rafter 

 spacing rut and 

 built a liouse with 

 the rafters 12 feet 

 4 inches apart, 

 increasing the 

 width between 

 them 50 per cent. 



The glass was 

 20 inches wide. 

 We used just one- 

 third less rafters, 

 one-third less col- 

 umns. The raft 

 ers were made 

 slightly deeper 

 and the purlins 

 were somewhat 

 heavier and spe- 

 cial fittings of re- 

 quired strength 

 were designed to 

 secure them to 

 the rafters. 



A combination 

 compresion and 

 tension truss was 

 s c i e n t i fi c a lly 

 worked out by 

 our engine ers, 

 that now permits 

 us to build these 

 house s— 60, 70 

 and even 80 feet 

 wide, with but 



>'i«»w of our R«oonNtrii< 

 inch**- apart in I,. It. 



I iHlilinuMoM', last Ik 



two columns across the house. This Reconstructed 

 Construction proved such a success that we began 

 building it extensively. 



It has been surprising, however, how many 

 growers at first hesitated at having the rafters 

 spaced 12 feet 4 inches apart, instead of 8 feet 

 4 inches. It apparently looks to them as if we 

 were "skinning the house down." 



They persistently seem to lose sight of our 

 strengthening the important members, and the ad- 

 vance we have made in trussing and bracing 

 greenhouses, which safely permits such a change. 

 Those of you who know L. B. Coddington, the 

 extensive rose grower, of Murray Hill, N. J., know 

 what a live wire he is. You also know that, alert 

 as he is for improvements in every branch of the 



business, he is 

 also conservative. 

 The consistent 

 kind of conserva- 

 tive. The kind of 

 conservative that 

 is safe for a man 

 to follow. 



We have just 

 finished for him. 

 four medium sized 

 houses, located 

 down at his old 

 plant. Three are 

 38 feet wide and 

 136 feet long, and 

 one 21 feet wide 

 and 122 feet long. 



They are all 

 this Reconstruct- 

 ed Construction. 



For going on 19 

 years. Mr. Cod- 

 dington has been 

 buying Hitchings' 

 houses. In all 

 those years, he 

 has diverged just 

 once. Evidently 

 he feels he can 

 depend on Hitch- 

 ings being de- 

 pendable, year af- 

 ter year. 



Think that 

 thought over. And 

 remember, we go 

 anywhere for bus- 

 iness — or to talk 

 business. 



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