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HORTICULTUEE 



June 6, 1914 



How Our 



Greenhouse Posts 



Save You Money 



TIIEV save .viiu iinmey bj" maklog you spend less money. 

 I'uttiiiK it the other way about — yon do actually spend 

 more at the very start — lint that's the end of it. 

 Listen to this — ."0 years ago we put up some houses for the 

 Piersons at Scarborough, N. Y., and used wrought iron 

 posts. Five years aso in replacing the base board they 

 dug down around the post Just to see how it was, and 

 found it practically as good as the day it was put in. But 

 listen once more — these posts were wrought iron — not steel. 

 Wrought iron is hard to get these days. You may pay for 

 wrought iron; but that's no surety that it's not steel. The 

 tirm you buy it of niight buy it of a firm who "said it was." 

 We don't take anybody's "say so" for anything we buy — 

 «e test everything. It's the only safe and sure way. 

 (If course, we would like to sell you materials for your 

 entire house, but if you are not quite ready for that yet. 

 then why don't you try our guaranteed wrought iron post 

 and patented galvanized Ice Clearing Eave Plate with roof 

 bar clasps attached? It would be sure enough a good start 

 in the right direction. 



Tell us the length of your house and we will tell you ex- 

 actly what the guaraiiteetl wrought iron posts and galvan- 

 ized cave plate .'ind clasps will cost. 



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or more. 



SALJ^S OFFICES: 



NEW YORK BOSTON PHILADELPHIA CHICAGO ROCHESTER CLEVELAND 



42nd Sb-eet Bldg. Tremonl Bldg. Franklin Bank Bldg. Rookery BIdg. Granite BIdg. Swetland Bldg. 



TORONTO, CANADA, 12 Queen St., E FACTORIES: Irvington. N. Y. De« Plainea. 111. 



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Some of the Special Features of Construction in the N. F, McCarthy House at Montrose, Mass. 



IT is CO feet wide and 250 feet long. 

 Height of ridge 23 feet :i inches. 

 The rafters and side posts are in one 

 piece from the ground line to the top of 

 the "I shaped" columns at which point 

 tliere is a special combination splice 

 plate and column top fitting. Y'ou will 

 be interested to know that the bend of 

 the rafter at the eave is not welded, but 

 one continuous piece, bent when at 

 white heat. 



This eave needs no reinforcing plates 

 and is neat and light, yet strong, being 

 absolutely practical in every particular. 

 The weight of the root is supported by 



two "I shaped" columns across the house. 

 The trussing is the compression type. 

 The sides are -S feet. The continuous 

 ventilating sash, directly under the 

 eaves, is 2 feet 6 inches, below which 

 are -3 feet of fixed glass. The sash sill 

 is bolted to an angle iron to which is 

 secured our Patented Sliding Shaft Ven- 

 tilating Aparatus. The entire run of 

 over 230 feet of this sash is operated 

 with perfect ease by only one gear 

 which is placed at the extreme end. 

 Every sash opens absolutely alike. It 

 works on a direct push and pull prin- 

 ciple. No lost motion. 



NEW YORK OFFICE 



1 170 Broadway 



BOSTON OFFICE 

 49 Federal St, 



HitcKin 



The ridge ventilating apparatus is 

 equipped at the hand wheel with a tell 

 talc device that shows you at a glance 

 exactly how many inches the sash is 

 open. Last 'Winter the big snow and 

 blow that took so many houses down, 

 came on this house just after it was 

 glazed and no heat In. The weight of 

 the snow was something terrific. The 

 loosening of a very few lights of glass 

 at the eaves was all the damage done. 

 It's just another case of being able to 

 depend on depending on Hitchlngs 

 houses. And we go anywhere for busi- 

 ness. 



PHILADELPHIA 



OFFICE 



40 S. ISih St. 



Factory, Elizabeth, N. J 



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