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HORTICULTURE 



September 16, 1916 





Putting Practical Practice Into Practice 

 In Building Greenhouses 

 For the Schools of the West and East 



WHY slioiiljn't cliildren be taught about pkints— real 

 live, living, growing plants; instead of pictures 

 of them, or uninteresting dried up specimens; or 

 those preserved in alcohol? 



Why shouldn't a linowledge of real plant life be a part 

 of their education, quite as much as many of the other 

 things that are taught? 



This early teaching means a greater, a larger love of 

 flowers; which in turn eventually means a greater de- 

 mand for flowers; which again in turn means more sales 

 and more money for the growers. 

 Ever think of it that way? 



With the Boards of Education all over the country walk- 

 ing up to the importance of teaching, talking and liv- 

 ing with flowers in the schools, it's easy to see that 

 there is going to be no great danger of grower.s "over 

 building" for some time to come. 



When you teach the children about flowers, you teach 

 and influence the parents also. 

 Don't lose sight of that fact I 



In the last three years we have built greenhouses for 

 close to a hundred schools and institutions. Yes, more 

 than a hundred. 



The houses illustrated adjoin one of the splendid schools 

 for which Minneapolis is justly famous. 

 One is used for a regular growing house; the other as 

 a sort of plant laboratory and class room. 



Last Fall we put one on the tip top roof of a New York 

 school. It was the only place in that crowded district. 

 where fresh air and light and sunshine was in abun- 

 dance. 



Among some of the others we have built, are : 



Deerfield Township High School, Highland Park, III. 



Ohio University & Normal College, Athens, Ohio. 



State Training School, Hed Wing, Minn. 



Chisholm High School. Chisholm, Minn. 



Montevideo High School, Montevideo, Minn. 



Kentucky Agrlc. Exp. Station, Lexington, Ky. 



Conception Abliey, Conception, Mo. 



Montana Agric. College & Exp. Sta., Bozeman, Mont. 



Agricultural College. Urbana, 111. 



Owatouna Public School. Owatonna, Minn. 



Maddock School. Maddock, N. Dak. 



.State Normal School, Mayville, N. Dak. 



South Dakota Agric. Exp. Station, Brookings, S. Dak. 



University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Neb. 



Colorado Agric. Exp. Station, Ft. Collins, Colo. 



Washington State College, Pullman. Wash. 



St. Vital Agric. College. Ft. Garry, Man., Canada. 



Agricultural College, Ames, Iowa. 



Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Mn. 



University of Nevada, Reno, Nev. 



.\nd Many Others. 



Tor4 §iRiirnham^. 



Builders of Greenhouses and Conservatories 

 SALES OFFICES: 



NEW YORK BOSTON PHILADELPHIA CHICAGO ROCHESTER CLEVELAND 



42nd Street Bldg. TremontBldg. Widener Bldg. Rookery Bldg. Granite Bldg. Swetland BIdg 



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



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



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