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HORTICULTURE 



January 1, 1916 



No. I . No iicedle»H, 

 c o m p 1 i rated and 

 cambroaH framinit: 

 at the rIdKe; but 

 iuht It ^inlple double 

 rafter splin* plate; 

 to which the cyprens 

 ridse ih bolted 

 "through and 

 IhroiiKh." 



Notice the fine open renter space In this "2 foot houne ereet««t for 

 W. •!. Chaplin, nt St. CalherlneB, Ontario, Canada. 



It Took Over 30 Years to Biuiildl This Hoose 



NOT actually thirty years to build it, but the way it is 

 liuilt is the result of our thirty years' development 

 ill Iron Frame Houses. 

 \'o one knew a thing about how Iron Frames should be 

 l)uilt thirty years ago. We built the first one built. 

 Our construction engineering experts have grown up in the 

 business. They know greenhouse construction from stem 

 to stern. You cannot go outside of the greenhouse busi- 

 ness and get construction engineers, whose knowledge in 

 building steel structures of other kinds can be satisfac- 

 torily applied to present day greenhouse construction. 

 Tlipy are determined to put needlessly heavy, cumbrous 

 members in some parts; and neglect stress and strain at 

 others. 



They are accustomed to working with wind pressures 

 against vertical buildings. They have no experience, no 

 facts, no figures, to guide them in wind pressure against 

 the angles of a glass roof surface. They think in big 

 I-beams and ponderous columns. 

 They will tell you that our houses are too light. 

 Still, thirty years have passed, and never a house has gone 

 down with snow or blow. 



The man who says: "It looks to me as if that strut is too 

 light:" or "it seems to me that side post ought to be 

 heavier," isn't safe to take seriously. It is the men who 

 say: "Here are facts and figures that prove these things 

 are right;" these are the men who are safe to listen to. 

 We have not only one such fact and figure man; but many 

 .just such men. 



The fact that other builders are continually claiming their 

 houses to be "just as good as I.^rd & Burnham's" proves 

 most conclusively that ours are the best. 

 Ever think of it that way? 

 Want to talk building? 

 Say when and where, and we will be there. 



No. 3. Rafter, col- 

 umn anil trUNH 

 bindinfc plate. You 

 § li 11 II I il hiivi* sci'ii 

 thr iii-liiiil (rami's of 

 liiitiM'K, put up in our 

 fiu-(or.\', iinil testeil 

 with ui-iKlits fur in 

 «xceH9 of what they 

 will actually have to 

 stand. Not "paper 

 weiKhtN"; hut tons 

 anil tonN of iron 

 with all its IiK.\l> 

 \VKI(;IIT. 



No. 2. Yon Hhoulil 

 have Been the stress 

 diagrams and the 

 piiKCs anil pages of 

 ticurcs our enKineers 

 iMtrkei) out, before 

 ailoptlns this exact 

 truHH and Its con- 

 nections. 



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No. I. Sfcfl rafters; 



nroufrht iron po§t ; 



and double hteel tv^^vj 



R^ussct pluto; with ^-^ 



(galvanised a n p I e 



Iron eave. 



SALES OFFICES : 



NEW YORK BOSTON PHILADELPHIA CHICAGO ROCHESTER CLEVELAND 



42nd Street Bldg. Tremont BIdg. Franklin Bank BIdg. Rookery BIdg. Granite BIdg. Swetland BIdg. 



TORONTO, CANADA, Royal Bank BIdg. MONTREAL, Transportation BIdg. 



FACTORIES: Irvington, N. Y. Des Plaines, III. St. Catharines, Ontario 



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