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you want an elaborate office front, avoid the profes- 

 sional architect, for as a rule architects have had no 

 experience in this class of building, and their drawings 

 are on too expensive a scale to be followed. 



If you are building for commercial purposes, or for 

 the growth of cut flowers merely, for your own use, let 

 your location be such as will embrace as many as pos- 

 sible of the following requirements. These are placed 

 in the order, as it seems to me, of their importance. 

 Adaptability of soil, pure fresh air and sheltered loca- 

 tion, nearness of fuel, proximity to your intended mar- 

 ket. Of soils and fuel I shall have occasion to speak 

 under their separate heads. 



In locating where land is reasonable in price so that 

 all that is needed may be obtained, it is well to seek 

 some natural shelter from the prevailing winds, and in 

 the absence of such shelter protect your buildings by 

 artificial means, such as the planting of evergreen trees. 

 Select such trees as will grow to a good height, and 

 when strong winds come you will find it a great pro- 

 tection. Having settled these preliminaries as best you 

 can, decide how well yovi wish to build, but do not 

 make the mistake of trying to make money go too far; 

 it is better to build one house fairly well than to build 

 two so cheaply that their term of service will be short. 



If you are able to build of iron you will find firms 

 who make the building of such houses a specialty. To 

 the man of moderate means, however, I believe there is 



