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THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE OF AMERICA. 
garage for this indoor garden, which means that the 
sun will not shine on the greenhouse until after twelve 
o'clock in midwinter, owing to the shade cast by the 
garage, and as any gardener knows, sun has very little 
growing light value after twelve o'clock. 
"1 am sure you want to see the flowers looking 
happy when you walk inside, but somehow they only look 
that way when they have plenty of sunshine. So 1 
would suggest by all means that you change vour lo- 
cation to the easterly side." 
"Say, young fellow, now 1 understand why you 
wanted to come out here instead of mailing me a fig- 
ure. I had read y-our ads telling about the value of 
your expert advice, but 1 thought I knew just how to 
go about this and did not propose to be told, but 1 
can see now what a mistake f would have made." 
"Well, now as we are going to change the site, here 
is another suggestion. This Ipanto 15 ft. by 30 ft. 
covers 450 sq. ft. of ground. If you would use one of 
our stock even span houses IS ft. by 25 ft., which cov- 
ers the same area, we could give you a much more 
practical greenhouse for very little more money. A leanto 
has the disadvantages of admitting light only on one 
side with the result that the tendency of the flowers 
is to grow toward the light, thus making them more 
of less one-sided." 
"Well, I remember my mother used to have a little 
k-anto greenhouse and she thought it was all right." 
"Yes, and perhaps you used to figure on a half hour 
or more to drive to church Sunday morning in the 
family- carryall, while now you could do it in ten min- 
utes with your big six-cylinder buzz-wagon. The evo- 
lution of the greenhouse and its products has been 
just as great as these means of transportation. 
"Now if you would place an even span house at the 
east end of the garage, the house would have light 
evenly distributed, practically all day in midwinter. In 
this type of house, 18 feet wide, we always place two 
Hnes of ventilation on the ridge. If our new tpye of 
curved eave is used, a line of continuous side ventila- 
tion is placed on each side of the house, just above 
the sill, offering the most perfect means for circulat- 
ing the air. 
"In this type of house, owing to the fact that we 
use a 30-inch radius at the eave line instead of 16-inch, 
as is generally used, we gain 1*4 feet of headroom 
over the side bench. You can see this is very desir- 
able in the case of chrysanthemums, snap dragons, 
roses, melons and the like requiring special height. 
We consider this type the best we build as it is always 
constructed with our Full Iron Frame consisting of 
heavy 9j4-inch cast iron sills, capping the masonrv 
foundations; iron rafters </ 2 by 3 inches bolted to the 
sill and following the curve of the eave, extend to the 
ridge where they are connected to rafters from the op- 
posite side by splice plates. These rafters occur every 
8 feet 4 inches in the length of the house and are held 
in place longitudinally by steel angle iron purlins. The 
sash bars are spaced for glass 24 inches wide. When 
inside this house, it is so light as to cause both the 
owner and his flowers to forget that they are in a glass 
enclosed building and not out in the garden. 
"With all our fine greenhouses and direct sunshine, 
we cannot expect to produce summer conditions in 
winter without a good heating plant. This should be 
properly placed in the cellar of the workroom, which 
in this case should be between the garage and green- 
house. This building should measure about 1 foot 
more in width than the greenhouse, making it 19 feet, 
and from 10 to 12 feet in depth between the garage 
and greenhouse. 
"The best arrangement for the boiler is to place it 
in a cellar un- 
der workroom. 
Have the floor 
about 7 feet 
below work- 
i-i lorn floor, as 
this arrange- 
in e n t permits 
of a place to 
store the coal 
and the entire 
floor of work- 
room may lie 
used." 
"This looks 
t o 
m e 
While uc ~.terc at Narragansett Pier, looking at the Mackenzie house, Newport was bill such a short distance 
away that we wait over there and spent an afternoon, going about among the various houses, In 
one, we found half a dozen plants of cucumbers, or. the cm! bench, near the partition. The gar- 
dener picked one off, just to show us that it vis no exaggeration to say that he grew 
cucumbers as Ions as his arm, an' I took Has photograph as a conclusive I'll of evidence. 
though I would 
have to spend 
a insider able 
money before T 
g e t through. 
Why not place 
tiie boiler in a 
pit instead of 
excavating the 
whole cellar?" 
"Well, you 
can do t h i s, 
but then you 
would have no 
place to store 
the coal and 
would lose 
about one-third 
