JULV 16, 1914. 



The Florists^ Review 



15 



Bifd's-eye View of the New Establishment of the J. W. Davis Co., to be built at Terre Haute, Ind. 



Some British seedsmen and growers 

 have made arrangements for displays. 

 Kehvay & Son, Langport, England, who 

 designed the reconstructed ancient gar- 

 den at Hampton Court Palace, will re- 

 produce a model of the palace and 

 grounds at the exposition. Kelway & 

 Son's exhibit and those of Hugh Dick- 

 son, Ltd., and Samuel McGredy & Son, 

 the two great Irish rose originators, 

 have alreadv arrived. Perry's Hardy 

 Plant Farm, Sutton & Sons, John 

 Waterer & Sons and Sander & Sons are 

 practically certain to exhibit. 



The glass dome of the Palace of Hor- 

 ticulture, shown in the accompanying 

 illustration, is the largest in existence 

 and measures 185 feet in height and 

 \38 feet in diameter. The building is 

 situated immediately to the left of the 

 "lain entrance and faces what is known 

 as the South Gardens, which will be 

 |ie main horticultural endeavor of the 

 'andseape gardening department, af- 

 lorainjr It the most prominent and indi- 

 ^Klual location of any building on the 

 grounds. The dome will be illuminated 

 ^^ '''Jilit entirely from the interior, 

 ,1'' ail elaborate efifect obtained by 

 ehangn,;, colors. 



sepf '"'ilding will be divided into two 

 whi k"^' ^^^ conservatory and that in 

 Dert '"" ^^ installed those exhibits 

 The "^' to practical horticulture. 

 aecerV""'?-^'^*"^^ will be arranged to 

 varv '■'^''^'^its requiring temperatures 

 is p. ""^"^ 45 to 80 degiees. There 

 'ions^ P^'ospect from present indica- 

 I'nusii I "'' *^^^ section will contain an 

 door ,'' '•ggregation of tropical and in- 

 turos .V'"*^- ^°® ^^ t^e leading fea- 

 the ov ""^^""* t^® entire period of 

 cut fl,, , '^'^'''" should be tho exhibit of 

 *° Jn-i ' tv,'- ■^y^'"ything is being done 

 xent.-iV, , display thoroughly repre- 



' ' " and to the entire satisfaction 



of tho trade. There will be a number 

 of flower shows in the spring and 

 autumn. Dahlias, roses, etc., will have 

 special days for shows. 



THE NEW DAVIS BANQE. 



Few undertakings in the way of 

 greenhouse building have attracted 

 more attention than the announcement 

 of the plans of the J. W. Davis Co. 

 for a new establishment at Terre 

 Haute, Ind. The Davis concern at 

 Davenport, la., has been unusually 

 successful and its range of detached 

 iron-frame houses of large size is vis- 

 ited by many western growers, as the 

 type of construction is unlike that em- 

 ployed in most of the older establish- 

 ments in the state. The new Davis 

 range at Terre Haute constitutes the 

 largest single order for greenhouse con- 

 struction ever given in the United 

 States. There are to be ten houses, 

 each 76x600, with two propagating 

 houses, each 2.'5x200. The coptract 

 calls for the immediate erection of 

 the propagating houses and eight of 

 the big growing houses. The Lord & 

 Burnhani Co., which obtained the order 

 througli its Chicago office, has con- 

 tracted to complete the first house Sep- 

 tember 15, and one more house each 

 fifteen days thereafter. The accom- 

 panying illustration shows the estab- 

 lishment as it will look when com- 

 pleted. Sixty five acres of land have 

 been purchased in the outskirts of 

 Terre Haute. The plan is to sell off 

 a strip 200 feet wide around two sides 

 of the property for building lots. The 

 power plant is to occupy a central posi- 

 tion in the range, witli the two projia- 

 gating houses in front and a railway 

 switch entering from the rear. The 

 propagating houses are to be set far 



enough apart to permit an electric 

 traction line to enter the power house 

 by laying its track between the two 

 greenhouses. The big 76x600 struc- 

 tures are to stand seventeen feet apart. 

 They run east and west. The pitch of 

 the north span is on the line of the 

 sun's rays at noon December 21 and 

 the distance between the houses is such 

 that the shade line of each house 

 strikes the next liouse at the ground 

 line on the shortest day of the year. 



Mr. Davis figures that by the instal- 

 lation of every modern device for the 

 handling of material he will be able to 

 make a considerable reduction in the 

 cost of growing. It is a coincidence 

 that he finds his Davenport establish- 

 ment and his new location at Terre 

 Haute equally distant from Chicago, 

 his principal market. One establish- 

 ment is 182 miles from Chicago, the 

 other 183 miles, one almost directly 

 west and the other almost directly 

 south. 



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