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An Interesting Letter 



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Jimt' 10, 1!'1'<I. 



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 Chicago, 111. 



Dciir Sirs: For years 1 lia\i' watclied with interest your 

 aiis on tlic hack r>aMi' ol thit Florists' Review from week to 

 Week to see it ihey old red anything of value to me, and have 

 reieived many helpful siiKgeslions from them. In notinp the 

 i^re-nhouse adverlisemenls of various coneerns from time to 

 time it has occurred to me that they were fine for the big 

 fellow, but sometimes they scared the little fellow out by their 

 bigness. There are lots of small llorlsts or vegetable growers 

 who I am sure have been scared out because the ea.'Je of the 

 smaller construction has not been brought clearly enough to 

 tluiii. I, too, wish I could hav(> houses built with nothing to 

 do but let the contract and then write a check, but I cannot 

 ye;, and as long as 1 cannot I sometimes think that my time 

 is mighty well spent in helping to put up simple houses like 

 the one shown iu the picture. 



I am sending this picture thinking it might interest some 

 .)f your departnu-nts. The young lady was simply helping 

 daddy plant tuinato aied. Note the daylight clearness of 

 gabli . simplicity of ■■onslructifon, etc. 



The history of this house might interest you: It was 

 ordered from tlie Jcdiii ( '. Moninger Co., in January; delivered 

 in February; put up in March with our own help; planted to 

 tomato seed in early April; in May and June tomato plants 

 <i)ld from it wont a long way toward paying for it; later in 



July it was benched, piped and planted to carnations, which 

 will give an all-winter crop. 



The reason for our adoption of this type of house might be 

 of interest: Roof bars are 14-foot, making the house 24 feet C 

 inche." wide. Gutters are seven feet high. This gives com- 

 fortable he:idroom all around, makes a fairly roomy house 

 and, when the purlin is placed just halfway on the rafter bars, 

 it makes the purlin posts come in the edges of the aisles, at 

 the same time allowing just four convenient benches and four 

 aisles to each house. This makesi a convenient unit for con- 

 nected houses, which can be built in any number. Further, 

 and not the least important, by hinging the vents at the ridgi- 

 we can stretch hail screen across from ridge to ridge, fasten- 

 ing it securely to the outside ridges. A wider house would 

 allow the screen to sag too much. If narrower houses were 

 used in this way there would not be headroom under the 

 screen when walking in the gutter. For screening we use 1- 

 inch mesh woven wire in C-foot widths stretched clear across 

 the range and nailed solidly to the outside ridge. The out- 

 side halves of the outside houses are then either left unpro- 

 tected or el»e a framework is built to carry the scrf^en over 

 that part. The strips of wire are wired together with a small 

 loop of wire about every eighteen Inches, thus making a solid 

 sheet of screen wire over the whole range. Screening in this 

 way has been a complete protection through four hailstorms 

 in nine years, each of which did terrific damage to unprotected 

 ulass adjoining. 



Vours truly. MORGAN FLORAL, CO., 



By L. J. Reid. 



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