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HORTICULTURE 



April 21, 1917 



PAT 



An Irishman's Story With a Greenhouse Moral 



PAT O'LEARY, writing to his brother Mike about 

 the wonderful things of this country and his 

 easy job, mentioned that "all I have to do is 

 carry a hod of brielis up a ladder half the day. and 

 gets me full day's pay." 



His brother in Ireland, not quite convinced that there 

 was any such thing as a half day job at full pay, 

 wrote back: "And now tell me. Pat, and what do 

 you be doing the other half of that day that you 

 spend only half of it climbing up that ladder?" 

 Pat's answer was: "You blithering idiot, I works 

 all the day ; half the day I am going up the ladder 

 wid the bricks ; the other half I do be coming down 

 widout them." 



There are a lot of Pat's kind in the world. 

 Some of them are in the greenhouse building business. 

 They are the kind who talk the price of a greenhouse 

 and never mention detail construction points until 

 forced to. 



Never mention them because they haven't much to 

 mention. 



They tell just half the story. 

 What you pay for a house is one half. 



What you get for what you pay is the other half. 



You ought to know all there is to know about both 



halves. 



Nothing gives »is more down right satisfaction than 



to be asked to prove why our houses are worth more 



than other houses. 



Step by step, point by point, we like to prove up, 



what experience has already proven to us. 



Specifieations are often rather "cleverly written." 



They may mean much or little. 



We don't write clever specifications. 



We do however, write a specification that tells you 



exactly what you are going to get; and you will get 



exactly that. 



You don't have to be a "Philadelphia lawyer" to 



understand it. 



There's none of the foxy Pat method of telling only 



half. 



If you think you would like the Hitchings way of 



doing business, we would like to do business with 



you. 



You know we go anywhere for business. Or to talk 



business. 



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