THE GARDENERS* CHRONICLE OF AMERICA. 
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a day off to start the greenhouse 
proposition going. 
"I want to tell you right now that 
I have asked several concerns to bid 
on this work and the lowest bidder 
gets it." 
As he led me across the lawn toward 
the garage, he continued: "I want to 
build a leanto on the side of my ga- 
rage. (Indicating the west side of the 
structure which was 20 ft. by 30 ft. 
running east and west and facing 
south.) I want a hot water boiler 
placed in the end of the garage next 
to the greenhouse to heat both build- 
ings. I will cut a door from the ga- 
rage to the greenhouse. In the green- 
house there is to be one door in the 
south gable, two side and one center 
benches. I will look after the founda- 
tion work." 
Marshal Field, the great Chicago 
department store owner, insists on his 
employees regarding their customers 
as always being right, so instead of rais- 
ing any objections I brought out my pho- 
tograph album and turned to some 
subjects we had recently built of this 
size, but which were, to our notion, 
better suited to the conditions. 
We started to smoke together and 
were soon sitting down in the garage 
looking over the photographs which invariably talk 
better than the salesman. I showed him special fea- 
tures in design and construction and soon felt safe to 
point out the undesirable features of his scheme. 
"To place a hot water boiler on your garage floor 
would be impractical because it would be necessary to 
have the heating coils up near the roof of the green- 
house and high up in the garage walls or ceiling. This 
would be not very serious in the garage, but most un- 
satisfactory and unsightly in the greenhouse. The 
top of the boiler should be below the floor of the 
greenhouse to permit of the gradual slope of the pipes 
which are usually placed out of sight under the side 
benches where the heat is distributed most evenly. 
"Then, regarding the pitch or slant of the green- 
house roof you propose, we cannot guarantee a tight 
job of glazing with a pitch of less than 6 inches to the 
Here yon have the two compartment house, showing hozv it looks with the flouts in. You 
•will notice that this compartment is used for geraniums and a lot of the 
good, old-time flowers which appeal so strongly to most of us. 
foot, and as the standard height of the eave line above 
the inside floor is about 5 feet the ridge of your house 
would be 12 feet 6 inches from the floor of the green- 
house. As the cornice in your garage is only 10 feet 
above the greenhouse floor, you can readily see that 
it would necessitate a pitch which would be entirely 
too flat to insure a water tight roof. In building a 
leanto against a hip roof, you would be inviting 
trouble, from the snow sliding off the garage roof." 
"Well, I can take care of that with a snow guard," 
broke in Mr. Brown. 
"Yes, but perhaps you have forgotten that the rea- 
son you are building a greenhouse at all, is because 
you must have light, particularly direct sunlight to 
make it possible for plants to thrive and bloom when 
the mercury is nestling at the lower end of the ther- 
mometer. You have selected the west side of your 
After seeing the Mackenzie house at Narragansett Pier, we took a Saturday afternoon off, and ion over to 
the Philadelphia suburbs, to see this three compartment house, seventy-five feet long. 
