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ized as a boiler house. A soil bin is also placed here. The first 

 or main floor is utilized for a general work room and office for 

 doing up packages, weighing, etc. (d). A large closet (c) is par- 

 titioned ofif for holding the working frocks of students and 

 attendants. A second closet (e) contains the tools and imple- 

 ments. Under the working benches (a) are cupboards for dif- 

 ferent sizes of flower pots. The attic is partitioned off into twa 

 rooms, one for the greenhouse attendant and the other for a. 

 store room. The potting house is furnished with a telephone. 



The greenhouses are planned for experimental work. Each 

 house contains sufficient piping to grow plants at either high or 

 low temperatures. The houses are so connected that while each 

 is separate from the other the partitions are of glass and their 

 contents are visible from the palm house (7) or passage ways 

 (8, 9). By being able to lock each of the side houses (1, 2, 3, 

 4, 5, 6), the experimental work is not interfered with. The 

 material for the houses was purchased from the Lord ct Burn- 

 ham company, greenhouse contractors and builders. The palm 

 house (7) and the four wings (houses 3, 4, 5, 6) connected to it 

 are of iron frame construction and erected by that company. 

 Houses 1 and 2 and runway 8, 9 are constructed on the same 

 principles as the former as far as iron posts, gutters, and pur- 

 lines are concerned, but the roof is made of cypress rafters- 

 entirely and the houses are supported by iron posts. In order 

 to have a variety, three kinds of apparatus for lifting ventilators- 

 have been put in, the Evans, Lord & Burnham, and the Hub. 

 Houses 2 and 4 have been fitted up for vegetable houses and 

 have ground beds. The remaining houses have raised benches, 

 excepting bed a in the j^alm house (7), which is a ground bed. 

 House 1 has been planned for a laboratory in floriculture. 

 Each student has his bench room assigned to him and here 

 carries on his practical work in floriculture, as mixing soils^ 

 making cuttings, watering, transplanting, germinating seeds, 

 etc. Benches a and b in house 8 and a and b in house 9 (the 

 ruuAvays) are cutting benches. They are so built that bottom 

 heat can be controlled beneath by opening or shutting slide 

 doors as occasion demands. 



The whole range is to be wired for electric lighting, is to have 

 cement walks, etc. While there may be more expensive ranges 

 throughout New England, I believe there are none better ar- 

 ranged for the purpose intended. For work in instruction along^ 

 this line we believe there are no institutions better equij^ped. 



