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The Florists' Review 



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Fij. V, Illustrating Houses Twenty-seven Feet and Tweniy-eight Feet Nini Inches Wide. 



ty-eight feet nine inches, and if this 

 detached house is to be the beginning 

 of a range all additional houses can 

 be twenty-seven feet wide. You will 

 please understand that in speaking of 

 houses in range form it is understood 

 that there are no dividing walls be- 

 tween the houses and that the range is 

 open all the way through. [Fig. V 

 shows a 27-foot house and one twenty- 

 eight feet nine inches.] 



There is a limit to the width of 

 houses for building in range form and 

 my idea is that this limit is reached 

 in the 34-foot house. The 34-foot 

 house permits the use of five benches 

 five feet wide and five walks about 

 twenty-one inches wide. From this you 

 will see the 34-foot house is a desirable 

 type only when built in range form 

 and there are the same objections to it 

 as there are to the 27-foot width, in 

 that the first house or the start of the 

 range must be a larger house. This 

 first house would need to be about 

 thirty-five feet eight inches. 



Widths of Detached Houses. 



Now we come to the houses that can 

 be built in detached style only, or, in 

 other words, must stand alone, as 

 single units. In these detached houses 

 there is always one walk more in a 

 house than there are benches. In 

 other words, if there are six benches, 

 there must be seven walks, unless what 

 are known as side benches are used 

 against the walls, on the outside. These 

 side benches are sometimes desirable, 

 but in our first start on the standard- 

 ization scheme let us disregard them 

 entirely. To get started on the de- 

 tached houses, let us assume that five 

 feet is the ideal width for benches 

 and that twenty inches is the ideal 

 width for walks. Let us design our 

 first house to contain six benches, each 

 five feet wide, a total of thirty feet 

 of width of benches. This makes it 

 necessary to have seven walks, each 

 twenty inches wide, a total of 140 

 inches, or eleven feet eight inches. 

 This would give us a width of forty- 

 one feet eight inches. To provide for 

 concrete walls, brick walls, etc., let 

 us set up our first house as forty-two 

 fpei. From this basis we can progress 

 to any other standard width by sim- 

 P'y adding five feet for each bench 

 tJiat would be added and twenty inches 

 for each additional walk, or a total of 

 Six feet eight inches for every bench 

 that we add. [Fig. VI shows the ar-_ 

 rangement alternating 5-foot benches 

 and 20-inch walks.] 



This makes our next house forty- 

 eight feet eight inches, the next one 

 nrty-five feet four inches, the next one 

 sixty-two feet, the next one sixtv-eight 



feet eight inches, the next one seventy- 

 five feet four inches, and so. on. 



The Benches and Walks Again. 



The standard widths which I have 

 mentioned are, as you can readily see, 

 based on something that is not stand- 

 ard. In other words, it has been 

 necessary to set up a standard width 

 of bench and a standard width of walk 

 in order to figure on any standard 

 width of house, and so we go back 

 again to the question of which width 

 of bench is the ideal width. It has al- 

 ways been my idea to decide first on 

 the width of the bench and the width 

 of the walk, and then build the house 

 above them. When we have finally 

 decided on a standard bench and a 

 standard walk we have absolutely 

 solved the entire standardization 

 scheme, as far as the width of the 

 greenhouse is concerned. 



All of the measurements given for 

 the widths of houses are from cen- 

 ter to center of walls, or rather wall 

 posts. Others may want to establish 

 standard widths based on inside meas- 

 ure or outside measure, but that 

 really makes little difference, so long 

 as the standard will permit of an ideal 

 bench arrangement. 



Construction Details. 



Can we ever hope to standardize the 

 thousand and one different patterns of 



material and the thousand and one 

 different methods of building walls, 

 roofs, benches, etc? If I correctly 

 view the standardization scheme, I do 

 not think this will ever be possible, nor 

 do I think it practical. My idea is 

 to let every manufacturer preserve the 

 individuality of his product. Let every 

 manufacturer strive to better his de- 

 signs, his patterns, his construction 

 and every part of his product. The 

 idea is to standardize greenhouses so 

 that every manufacturer making this 

 class of material can carry in stock 

 his own individual product for all 

 standard sizes of greenhouses. This, 

 it seems to me, is the common-sense 

 way of looking at it. 



But here we run against an obstacle 

 that would hardly occur to the layman. 

 Suppose that we would establish a 

 width of forty-two feet for our first 

 detached greenhouse. Suppose this 

 width has been figured from center to 

 center of wall posts and that gutters 

 measuring twelve inches in width are 

 used on each of the walls. Here comes 

 another manufacturer who makes an 

 ice-clearing eave plate, and on account 

 of the difference in placing the posts, 

 etxJ., his center to center measurement 

 would be different, using the same in- 

 terior arrangement for the benches and 

 the walks. How are we going to over- 

 come things of this character? Frankly, 

 I do not just see at this time how 



Fif. VI, Showing Five-foot Benches and Twenty-inch WaOu Attematiog. 



