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HORTICULTURE 



December 26, 1914 



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It is 60 feet wide and 4(H) feet long. The side-* are 7 feet high with 18 inch 

 transom sash, operated with onr dose working apparatus. The power plant 

 is a model one — in fact, one of the finest in New England. It 14 connected to 

 the greenhouHe by a glass passage house 10 feet wide and 35 feet long. 



First Big House of The New 

 Sinclair Range at Smith's Ferry, Mass. | 



ON t^tat'tiug off ou iu> v;u;itiun IIjis full; )>ruiiii.sed my- 

 self iliat never :i greenhouse would I visit. "Business 

 to bally-hack, for all me" was to be my motto for 

 two whole weeks. You have many a time determined to do 

 exactly the same thing, and ynu know 

 just what has happentMl, time after 

 time. So I might just as well own up 

 that when burning up tlie gasoline, 

 whizzing along that beautiful road 

 between Northampton and Hnlyoke, 

 Massachusetts — saw ;>. big greenhouse 

 across the flelds on the left: automati- 

 cally, I shut off the gas and before my 

 partner ci.uld sucressfully protest, was 

 over the fence and scooting across the 

 lots to the fine, big house of Sinclair 

 and Son. 



T can turn down invitations to ball 

 games: decline tl>e (»rfer of my friend's 

 I'arkard (even when 

 he furnishes all the 

 gasoline); I can re- 

 sist all kind of 

 tempting things, 

 but it's all up with 

 me. when a green- 

 house looms in 

 sight. Something 

 just makes me go 

 and look it over. 

 It's a pretty sight, 

 one of these big 

 Iron Frame Houses 

 su<*ii as we «re 

 building these days. 



Us .1 

 and : 

 It 

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li.t of -salisfacliou tu st.iuint your eye along the eav-e 

 e how it runs straight the full length. 

 genuine pleasure to go inside and see the engineering 

 ing skill showQ in a big house like this of Sinclair's; 

 and see how very liitle detail has been 

 carried out exactly "according to speci- 

 fications" and finished up with greatest 

 care. 



"There's no camera made, that can do 

 such a house justice." At least that's 

 how Mr. Sinclair feds about it. 

 When I got back to the buzz-wagon, 

 my partner had a fierce grouch on. I 

 liidn't give a hoot. Any fellow who 

 isn't interested in a house like this one 

 of Sinclair's isn't to be scolded. He 

 needs to be pitied. 



That night. Imwever. at the Hotel 

 Kimball, in Springfield, he good-natur- 

 edly stood for a 

 couple of hours of 

 my talk on our 

 Iteciinstructed Con- 

 struction. 



If you would like to 

 knitw some of the 

 things we talked 

 mIhuu. send for our 

 IN'cnnstructed Con- 

 struction circular. 

 It doesn't say so 

 much, but the illus- 

 trations show a 

 lot. 



The greuteNt lengtliwi^e sway strain on a Iiimish i>, brnughl ugiiinst the columns. 

 That's why we hruce-tie them to earh other. e\er> so often. It's the simplest, 

 most effei'tual way of making the hoiisei -dlitl. 



.All Mr. Sinrlair's riilge vent geari are eqiiippefl with our Tell-tale device, 

 •.bowing exact opening in inehes of the ftasb. 



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