Sbptbmbeb 19, 1912. 



The Horists' Review 



9 



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Houses Supplied to Curtis Thimm, Roslyn, Long Island, by a Chicag^o Material MilL 



they have had one or two freezings, 

 just sufficient to check their rampant 

 leaf gro<7th. If you plant them early 

 you will get a tremendous crop of 

 foliage at the expense of flowers. Where 

 you find occasional spotted leaves on 

 plants after housing, pick them off and 

 the trouble is not likely to spread. 

 C. W. 



THE FBICE OF OLASS. 



There has been another advance in 

 the price of glass, and especially on 

 greenhouse sizes, as there is somewhat 

 of a shortage at this time, owing to the 

 long-continued shutdown of the facto- 

 ries during the summer. The probabili- 

 ties are that factories will not resume 

 operations until about November 1 and 

 in that event the glass trade looks for 

 still higher prices this winter. Green- 

 house glass will probably not be any 

 cheaper during the coming season than 

 it is at the present time. 



OAED2NEES' CONVENTION. 



Arrangements have been completed 

 for the annual convention of the Na- 

 tional Association of Gardeners, to be 

 held at Newark, N. J., Tuesday, No- 

 vember 19. The new auditorium has 

 been secured for the meeting place, and 

 ani exhibition of novelties, both from 

 an^ong the commercial and private 

 growers, will be invited. The morning 

 will be given to a bowling contest, the 

 afternoon to the business session, and 

 the evening to a banquet at the Conti- 

 nental hotel, the program having been 

 arranged with a view of meeting the 

 C09venience of all members. 



President Logan has appointed the 

 following convention committee: Peter 

 Duff, Orange, N. J.; William H. Duck- 

 ham, Madison, N. J.; A. Bauer, El- 

 beron, N. J.; W. H. Waite, Yonkers, 

 N. Y.; James Stuart, Mamaroneck, 

 N. Y.; John Everitt, Glen Cove, N. Y.; 

 Carl Schaeffer, Tuxedo, N. Y.; Frank 

 E. Witney, Fishkill, N. Y.; William 

 Kleinheinz, Ogontz, Pa.; John F. Huss, 

 Hartford, Conn.; Alexander T. Fraser, 

 Newport, K. I.; Thomas Proctor, Lenox, 

 Mass.; W. N. Craig, North Easton, 

 Mass.; F. Kirk, Bar Harbor, Me.; Alex- 

 ander McPherson, Washington, D, C; 



A. J. Smith, Lake Geneva, Wis. Com- 

 mittee on final arrangements: Peter 

 Duff, Orange, N. J.; Robert Tyson, Con- 

 vent, N. J.; Joseph Manda, West Orange, 

 N. J.; M. C. Ebel, Madison, N. J., and 

 Austin C. Sayler, New York, N. Y. 



M. C. Ebel, Sec'y. 



A LONG ISIiAND BANQE. 



Curtis Thimm, at Roslyn, L. I., has 

 just completed a range of three houses, 

 ridge and furrow style, rather different 

 from what bis neighbors have, and with 

 which he is extremely well pleased. 



These new houses are each 27x200 

 feet and in the accompanying illustra- 

 tion are shown in a most interesting 

 state of semi-completion. The upper 

 picture shows the three houses entirely 

 finished in so far as the roof is con- 

 cerned, but with no side walls; the only 

 supports are the I-beam posts in the 

 walls and the pipes under the channel 

 iron gutters. It certainly proves the 



strength and rigidity of the construc- 

 tion. The lower picture shows the truss 

 that eliminates all but two lines of 

 purlin posts. Ventilation is continuous, 

 on one side only, the Foley Triumph 

 machine being used, for the range was 

 designed by the Foley Mfg. Co., and 

 all the materials were shipped to Long 

 Island from the mills at Chicago. 



Mr. Thinun intends to grow a gen- 

 eral line of cut flowers in these houses, 

 for the New York wholesale market. 

 His benching arrangements can be seen 

 in the upper picture, through the place 

 now occupied by the concrete wall. He 

 used pec^ cypress for the tables. 



The Foley Mfg. Co., and the other 

 Chicago building material concerns, 

 have been largely increasing their busi- 

 ness in the extreme east and have this 

 season erected a considerable number 

 of interesting ranges on Long Island 

 and elsewhere along the Atlantic sea- 

 board, which The Review may have thei 



Interior of Curtis Thimm's New Greenhouses. 



