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The Florists^ Review 



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The columns are 

 I - shaped like this 

 and set in concrete 

 footings. 



The side posts are suaranteed 

 wroJUtii4 ixi>a, -stiffened and 

 strenathened by angle irons riv- 

 eted on eaoh side. 



Each roof bar is screwed to eaqh purlin, which 

 are spaced 5 feet apart, or nineton each side of 

 the roof. 



|TOP and think of the shaking of heads there was 

 when L. & B. blazed the wide house trail by 

 erecting the first iron framer, 40 feet wide and 

 having only two columns. Mr. Alexander 

 Montgomery, when he first had the bravery to 

 buy from us such a house for the Waban Rose Conservatory, 

 put the hand of greenhouse building progress ahead many 

 more years than even his most sanguine imagination could 

 have pictured. 



Ever since then we have been making our houses wider 

 and wider— but always making them saffo and suro. 



This Spring we completed a house over Boston way that 

 is 80 feet wide and 600 feet long (we will show you photos 

 of it in our next ad). Between the two columns you could 

 place the 40-foot Waban house and still have room to do a 

 tango dance on either side. 



But not satisfied with an 80-footer, we have now de- 



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Two Column H 



signed this one 83 feet wide. All the engineers in our engi- 

 neering department say it's the finest piece of commercial 

 construction that L. & B. have ever laid out. 



Let's go over, together, the main features and see if you 

 don't agree with them. First, however, just take a f.'lance 

 at the distance between the two I-shaped columns. It is 51 

 feet 5 inches. Think what a fine, big, broad open spac* 

 that givesi Even though the ridge is only a little o\er 29 

 feet high, still the roof pitch is ample. 



Krst let's start at the sides in looking over the con- 

 struction itself. The posts are made of flat guarant**' 

 wrought iron, on each side of which is riveted a steel :>ngle. 

 making it much stronger and st-ffer than a solid post '^'ould si( 

 be of twice the thickness. Those posts will do their p; ft all 

 right and have a good margin left over for meeting ex raor 

 dinary conditions of snows and blows. 



The flat iron rafter which extends from the eave ■ o tii« 



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