CHAPTER VII. 
A WINTER WORK ROOM. 
Here is a suggestion for a 
aarroem|! winter work room; a place for 
WASH BOR Box doing all the laborious details of 
Qaonse “getting ready for market.’’ It 
is from one of our 1896 note books, 
and is an almost exact copy of the 
‘“wash room’’ of John S. Crosby, 
of Arlington, Massachusetts. Mr. 
\I Crosby is entitled to the merit of 
. its simple and convenient details. 
Everybody in the market 
gardening business knows the 
vast amount of labor involved in washing, bunching and 
preparing stuff for market at all seasons of the year, and 
that this work in winter is often painfully cold and altogether 
disagreeable. 
The above work room or ‘‘ wash room” is a model of 
comfort and convenience, and its best feature is its simplicity. 
It is not expensively built, yet every detail seems perfect. 
Numerous windows admit light by day, and electricity 
furnishes illumination by night. The boiler and its pipes 
keep the place comfortably warm. 
The floor of the wash room, which is of cement, is raised 
say two feet above the level of the ground outside the 
building. 
Large doors open for the reception of the market wagon, 
which stands below the level of the wash room floor. The 
doors close with the wagon on the inside. 
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