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north frontage. If this should happen to face a street with a 20-ft.wide 

 parkway (as is apt to be the case in the Middle Western and Western 

 parts of the country) an attractive drive approach is possible. The 

 100-ft. front is divided into five equal parts, each 20x24 ft., namely: 

 The potting room with boiler room and coal cellar below; a palm or 

 show house; a store; a fern or another show house, and a workroom 

 and private office. Houses for growing stock can be built on, running 

 either north and south or east and west; but were it desirable,' one 

 could conduct a mighty fine retail business'in the first section alone. 

 Or, if a man wanted to, he could build just a portion of that section 

 to begin with. The store part might be shingled or have frosted glass 

 in the top. The front elevation of the workroom and potting room 

 might be brought up higher and a flat roof used. If the lot has just 

 100 ft. frontage and the whole of this is used, it should be located 

 on a corner or have a driveway or alley in the rear. That much is 

 certain. 



With this layout one could create a very attractive front, and 

 one not only attractive, but convenient too. The potting room is 

 nicely located and away from view. The workroom at the other end 

 is used mainly for making up floral designs, and for storing paper, 

 boxes and other material. In these instances, as well as in the 

 others, it isn't claimed that such an arrangement wiU suit all pur- 

 poses. But a good part of it might be adapted ; or the study of the 

 plans may lead to other useful ideas. There wouldn't be much 

 diflference in cost if this section with a couple of more houses were 

 erected. 



THE SHOW GROUND 



The show ground is as important to the florist in the country as the 

 show window is to the flower shop in the city. The name doesn't 

 apply only to a five-acre display, for a 50-ft. lot can often be transformed 

 into an attractive show ground and made beautiful with no outlay 

 worth mentioning for the stock required. 



PRACTICALLY every florist located out of town has a piece of 

 -■- land in connection with his greenhouses. Usually such land is 

 not only near the greenhouses, but actually part of them, facing 

 on a street or highway, and affording a splendid opportunity as a 

 place in which to set out stock plants of Geraniums, Cannas, etc., so 

 as to create a reed display. 



The Formal Show Ground 



Why plant any old way just so as to get the stock outdoors 

 when, with very little more work, you can lay out a piece of ground 

 in beds and sod paths in a sort of formal garden and thereby trans- 

 form that piece of your garden or field into a show ground ? 



