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The Florists^ Review 



Ai'itii, 21, 1921 



i^eenliouse Builders 



How Our Wrought IRON Posts Are 

 After 40 Years in the Ground 



Here's where we make an 

 honest confession. 

 This is it. 



Over a half century ago, be- 

 fore we had much of any ex- 

 perience building green- 

 houses, we thought viv knew 

 about all one needed to know. 

 Now we know less than we 

 thought we knew then, but 

 we have a half century qf 

 experience on which to base 

 what we now know. 



.lust for example,* we claim 

 that our guaranteed wrought 

 iron posts will outlast any 

 steel posts that are made, 

 even it is twice as thick. 

 We didn't make that claim 

 because we thoiujht it was so. 

 Or because the people who 

 had wrought iron to sell, told 

 us it was so. 



We knew it was so, because 

 IV e had experience that 

 jtroved it was so. 



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Wroui-'lit iron posts set in concrete 

 .'inil liouljli" gusset platis on read.v 

 for pultinL' up rafters. 



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Fhoto (if one o the Pierson urouslit 

 iron posts after, beinw lo years in 

 the ^'lounil. 

 It's nisled over. lint not in. 



Exactly 30 years after we 

 built Prank Pierson of Tarry- 

 town a house, he began won- 

 dering about whether the 

 posts ought to be replaced. 



lie dug down and found them 

 sound as a nut. 



Last fall, which was close to 

 10 years afterward, we asked 

 him to let us do some digging 

 on our own hook. 



Still those wrought iron posts 

 were sound and strong. 



Rusted over the surface, of 

 course. But not rusted into 

 the metal. 



For exactly the same reason 

 that wrought pipe lasts long- 

 est; so do wrought posts. 



Why be so determined to 

 have wrought pipe, ornothing; 

 and then let someone sell 

 you a greenhouse with steel 

 posts? 



Note these gusset plates on hath sidps 

 the Fo.st. 



It's so that .some builders use only 

 07IC plat . 



