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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



August 18, 1010. 



A BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF OUR ESTABLISHMENT 



PRACTICALLY ALL GROWERS NOW REALIZE THAT BY 

 FAR THE BEST MATERIAL FOR GREENHOUSE BENCHES IS 



PECKY CYPRESS 



It is like any other cyprefls except that it looks as 

 though it were full of worm holes, but isn't; it is 

 especially like other cypress in that it has to be open 

 air dried in the south. It is dried until it weighs three 

 pounds to the board foot, or 3,000 pounds to the thou- 

 sand feet. Consequently 10,000 feet will make a min- 

 imum car. "We can ship from our yards to the central 

 states, or direct from the mills in Louisiana to florists 

 in New England and to growers in the far west, and it 

 is only a question of time when all growers will use it. 



It doesn't take so very many feet of bench to call 

 for a minimum car of pecky cypress. It comes 1x6 inches 

 and the boards eight to twenty feet long. With about 

 an inch between for drainage, a bench four feet wide 

 will take seven boards, or three and one-half feet lum- 

 ber measure for each lineal foot of bench. Side pieces 

 bring it up to four and one-half feet. Consequently a 

 minimum car, 10,000 feet of lumber, would suffice for 

 only twenty-two benches 4x100. The average car con- 

 tains 13,000 to 15,000 feet. 



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Iff you don't need a car yourself, get your neigh- 

 bors to club In with you and order a car* :t xx 



REFERENCES: — Ask the following growers, whom you all know, if Pecky Cypress is not the best bench material ; 



PxTBB Reinbkhq, 51 Wabash Ave., Chicago ; Geobob Reinbero, 35 Randolph St., Chicago ; Poehlmann Bbos. COv, Mor- 

 ton Grove, 111.; Wietob Eros., 51 Wabash Ave., Chicago; Adam Zendeb, Rogers Park, Chicago; Wei land & RiscH, 59 wabaab 

 Ave., Chicago ; South Park Floral Co., New Castle, Ind. ; Matt Weiland, Evanston, 111. ; Bassett & Washbubn, Hinsdale, 

 111. ; SiNNEB Bbos., 58 Wabash Ave., Chicago ; Wm. Scott Co., Buffalo, N. Y. ; J. A. Bddlong Est., 37 Randolph St., Chicago ; 

 John Wxiland, Evanston, 111. 



They All Use It in Preference to Any Other Material 



We fumitth Ship I>ap, Drop Siding, Sheathina;, Floorins, White Cedar FostH. and every- 

 tliinK in Pine and Hemlock BaildinK L.ainl>er. Get our prices on anytliins you need. 



Adam Schillo Lumber Co. 



Cor. Weed and Hawthorne Aves.,"'°"%ir.^^4ii CHICAGO 



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