AUGUST 27, 1914. 



The Florists' Review 



Bird's Eye View of Big Range to be Erected for GuKett & Sonst at Lincoln, III. 



liable to damp oflf. Propagate in clear, 

 sharp sand, with good drainage, and 

 keep the cuttings in full sun; they do 

 not need any shade. C. W. 



GULLETT'S BECOBD BANGE. 



Work on what is undoubtedly the 

 largest single order for greenhouse con- 

 struction ever given in this country is 

 under way at the establishment of W. 

 H. GuUett & Sons, at Lincoln, 111. The 

 complete range will comprise twenty- 

 four houses, each 60x500 feet; four 

 propagating houses, 30x460 feet, and 

 tour propagating houses, 10%xl75 feet. 

 The contract for the entire plant, in- 

 cluiling the concrete work, is in the 

 hands of the John C. Moninger Co., Chi- 

 cago. The total cost is approximately 

 $456,000, and 750 carloads of material 

 will be required. 



As may be seen from the accompany- 

 ing illustration, the range will be laid 

 out in four blocks of six houses each. 

 These houses will be of Moninger all- 

 steel construction, and no castings arc 

 to ln> used in them. These structures 

 ^ill l>e connected at the middle of the 

 hous' s by means of iron-frame cross 

 houses. Crossways, between the blocks, 

 ^ill *'e the propagating houses, 30x460 

 feet, of iron-frame construction. From 

 the middle of the blocks of large houses 

 run ^tmi-iron passage houses, 10%xl75, 

 to h,^ used for propagating, to the boil- 

 er I'^Mise, which will be located in the 

 '■f'nt. r of the range. 



Tl'( re will be a separate boiler room 



' ach block. The first block of 



for 



hou^. s 

 boil 



will be erected with its own 

 room and service house complete. 



J -Will ailU OCX V Xl^C t^KJlMO^ K^VkiX^»-<^^i^- 



l^ts , ;iimney and battery of boilers will 

 ^e s unit, ready for use when the first 

 ^^^^'"^ is finished. "When the second 



block is built, the boiler house will be 

 extended, and for the other two blocks 

 similar rooms will be erected, alongside 

 the first. When the twenty-four houses 

 are completed the boiler plant will form 

 practically a unit in the center of the 

 range. In the service building will be 

 provided sleeping quarters and office 

 space, as well as packing and work 

 rooms. A modern refrigerating outfit 

 will provide cold storage for cut 

 flowers. 



A railway track will extend directly 

 through the service building, between 

 the large chimneys. This track will 

 run overhead, so that dump cars can 

 be used and the coal drop directly in 

 front of the boilers, ready for stoking. 

 These chimneys are five feet in diam- 

 eter and 100 feet high, of brick, with 

 the name GuUett in red brick. Although 

 the service building is of frame con- 

 struction, it is modern in every respect. 

 It has a concrete floor throughout and 

 is built of cypress and pine. 



The heating system is the Moninger 

 vacuum system, just brought out this 

 summer. There are eight vacuum 

 pumps and eight boiler feed pumps to 

 be used in the completed range. All 

 of these pumps are to be cross-con- 

 nected for each battery, so that the 

 plant can be operated under any weath- 

 er conditions and with economy. The 

 horse-power of the boilers amounts to 

 2,100, an oquiv.-ilent of 210,000 feet of 

 radiation. 



In each of the houses are ten benches. 

 Four are four feet wide and six are 

 four and one-half feet wide. Along the 

 walks across the middle of the houses 

 will be tracks, on which are to run 

 cars with soil, fertilizer, etc. All the 

 pipes, too, are carried overhead, along 

 this walk, so that heat, water, etc., may 



be distributed from the middle of the 

 houses. 



Although the contract was not signed 

 until July 8, one house, 60x500, has al- 

 ready been completed and turned over 

 to Gullett & Sons for planting, and the 

 steel work of the second house is going 

 up rapidly. The John C. Moninger Co. 

 expects to have this one completed by 

 the middle of September. The houses 

 are to be devoted principally to roses, 

 carnations and pot plants, although, 

 other stock niav be included later. 



NEW YOBK. 



The Market. 



The hottest week of the summer to 

 (late is past. Several days the mercury 

 touched 100 degrees in the shade. This 

 and the prolonged humidity did their 

 share in causing the verdict of "the 

 worst week ever known in the cut flower 

 business in New York." Nothing to 

 compare with these conditions has ever 

 been known here, according to the vet- 

 erans of twenty-five years' experience. 

 There seems little hope of any uplift in 

 the near future, and it requires consid- 

 erable philosophy to see the sunshine 

 beyond the clouds. The war in Europe 

 is already felt most seriously in the 

 trade. What the future will unfold can 

 only be conjectured, and it needs an 

 enormous amount of optimism to main- 

 tain both enterprise and hope. 



There is a flood of roses arriving 

 daily. Even American Beauties were 

 almost unmovable. Specials were of- 

 fered as low as $4 per hundred, with 

 no demand. All varieties of roses ac- 

 cumulated, and any offer for them was 

 gladly accepted. One department store 

 offered, for its Saturday special, Beau- 

 ties at 5 cents each, a box of flowers for 



