HORTICULTURE 



July 8, 1916 



The purely practical growing houses at Longvle^v Farm, K. A. Long's Coontry place, near Kansas City. 



An Interesting Example On 

 Practical Practice 



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SOME 20 or 30 miles from Kansas City is R. A. 

 Long's country place. Here he has two purely 

 practical growing houses. Absolutely nothing 

 fancy, just two parallel houses, each 200x38 feet. 

 Each one is divided by glass partitions into four 

 compartments. The construction is practically the 

 same as our highest type of commercial houses. 



Here it is that plants, flowers, vegetables and 

 fruits are produced in large quantities; not alone 

 for the "big house on the hill," called "Long- 

 view," but also for the "town house" or Kansas 

 City residence." 



At the town house, they also have a palm house 

 and general foliage plant house, both of which we 

 erected some ten or twelve years ago. 



We tell you these things because we know that 

 many gardeners are continually up against it. to 

 produce enough in their houses to satisfy the ever 

 increasing demands of their employer. 



The palm house at Mr. Long's Kansas City residence. 



All too often, we have a notion that the orna- 

 mental in greenhouse ranges is secured at the 

 sacrifice of the practical. 



That it is possible to combine both satisfactorily, 

 we have demonstrated over and over again. 



But after all is said and done, what a man builds 

 a greenhouse for. is to produce things. That 

 house, then, which produces the most, is most 

 likely to be most satisfactory. 



Not that we suggest making a practice of building 

 plain, commercially constructed houses on private 

 places; but we do believe there is a happy medium 

 that would i)rove highly satisfactory. 



Let's get together and talk it over. Perhaps be- 

 tween us, we can work out something decidedly 

 better than has ever yet been done. 



You say when and where and we'll be there. 





Tlie plant house at Mr. Long's Kansas City residence. 



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