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HORTICULTURE 



December 8, 1906 



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THE IRON FRAME HOUSE 



AND A LITTLE SIDE TALK ON WIDE HOUSES 



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ERE is one of our iron frames being erected for a house 46 feet 

 wide and 300 feet long. You can see now what we mean 

 by self-sustaining — the force of the argument we have 

 been advancing on its being entirely independent of any wooden 

 3 part for its support. Seems like a light, airy sort of frame work 

 for so wide a house but it's as rigid and solid as a rock when 

 completed. This man has tried about all sorts of construction and various 

 width houses and now declares the wide house to be the most economical 

 to both heat and work — he believes it will save him 20% in fuel. Then 

 there's the matter of sudden changes, all that mass of air is acting as a 

 fortification or insulation, and by the same token the dangers of chill in 

 ventilating are reduced — the air is warm before reaching the plants. We 

 believe thoroughly in the wide house because it is actually cheaper to erect 

 than ridge and furrow houses covering same space — we know it gives to 

 the grower the highest possible value. We go thoroughly into this iron 

 frame proposition and the question of wide houses in our Iron Frame Cir- 

 cular — send for it. Lord & Burnham Co., Greenhouse Designers and 

 Manufacturers, 1133 Broadway, cor. 26th Street, New York. Boston 

 Branch: 819 Fremont Building. 



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