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HORTICULTURE 



April 29. 191« 



One Of Our Free Schools For Workmen 



How It Overcomes 

 Greenhouse Building Guesswork 



ITS an old saying that "poets are born not 

 made." 



Exactly the reverse, however, is true of 

 greenhouse building experts. 

 They have to he made. 



So we proceed to make them in the way they 

 should be made. 



We take the raw material and train It. 

 To best accomplish this we have started at one 

 of our factories a free evening class where any 

 of the workmen can come and learn the geometry, 

 mathematics and engineers facts and figures, 

 about greenhouse planning, building and erect- 

 ing. 



A man may know how to do a certain thing; but 

 he will do it better if he knows why. 

 In this class they have both the how and the icft.i/ 

 The things they learn in theory at night they can 

 prove up by farts in actual shop work in the day 

 time. 



So eager are the men to learn that the man who 

 is not interested enough to want to stay — soon 

 finds his fellow workmen looking down on him. 

 He's out of place and soon looks for another 

 place. 



The men themselves, you see, help us sort out 

 the inefficient ones and so are continually stimu- 

 lating each other for better things. 

 Those men in the picture working over their 

 problems, are the material from which later on 

 we will make our foremen and superintendents, aa 

 needed by any of our three rapidly growing fac- 

 tories. 



The day of rule of thumb is past. 

 Guess work won't do. 



Facts and figures only are to be depended on. 

 This class is only one of many of our methods to 

 make better men for us, so we can make better 

 and better houses for you. 



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SALES OFFICES: 



NEW YORK BOSTON PHILADELPHIA CHICAGO ROCHESTER CLEVELAND 



42nd Street Bid g Tremonl Bldg. Franklin Bank BIdg. Rookery Bldg. Granite BIdg. Swe«Und BIdg. 



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



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



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