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NOVBMBER 12, 191-1. 



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The Florists' Review 



123 



The Question of Shade in 

 Ridge and Furrow Houses 



ALONG the middle of last August, when in Pittsburgh, I 

 took the trolley one fine morning out to Bakerstown, to 

 visit again the range of the Pittsburgh Cut FlQwer Co. 



Was fortunate in finding Mr. Burki at his office. In his 

 characteristic direct way, all formalities were soon out of 

 the way and he was talking greenhouse facts and figures. . 



Most of his eight acres of glass are separate houses, but 

 he has two blocks of connected ridge and furrow ones. In 

 1911 wc sold him 10 each 12' 0" wide and 100' long. 



Last year, however, 

 he bought another of 

 our separate houses 

 41' 4" X 583' 4" and 

 this brings us to the 

 main point of this Ad. 

 — the shade in con- 

 nected houses. 



In passing through 

 some of these houses, 

 the benches of which 

 had just been white- 

 washed ready for new 

 soil, Mr. Burki called 

 my attention to the 

 difference in the 

 shadow cast by the 

 sun on the benches by 

 the gutter, and by the 

 ridge. 



The ridge shadow 

 measured three inches 





This sketch shows the shade cast by the ridge J.nd the gutter In a con- 

 In width, and the gut- nected, or ridge and furrow house, at noon on the shortest December day. The 

 ters 7% Inches, or single wide house the same width as the two connected ones takes no more roof 

 more than twice as than the two narrow ones and you do away entirely with the gutter and the ^"y when and where 

 much. one extra rldge. nnd we'll be there. 



When you consider that this was at one o'clock on a day 

 in the middle of August, when the sun was high and cast- 

 ing the shortest shadow, the thought of what that shadow 

 Is, during the short days of December, when the sun hangs 

 low, is certainly such as to make a man sit up and take 

 notice. 



Not only will the shade be much broader but in combi- 

 nation with the ridge the shadow is practically continuous, 

 as shown by this line drawing. 



Mr. Burki declares 

 that he wants no more 

 connected houses. Such 

 a statement coming 

 from a man standing 

 so high in the busi- 

 ness and based on ac- 

 tual comparative re- 

 sults carries with it 

 convincement. 



In addition to the 

 shade side of this dis- 

 cussion there are also 

 the questions of heat- 

 ing economy and im- 

 proved ventilating con- 

 ditions that unques 

 tionably exist in the 

 large single houses, 

 both of which we 

 would like to discuss 

 with you. 



When you are ready 



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