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October 7, 1022 
<Jht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Lead has no ‘voice 
to call its own 
greenhouse about 10x15 ft., utterly use- cucumbers and tomatoes, and not only 
less for the purpose I had suggested, serves the hotels, but ships North, lie 
They made some outdoor experiments of finds glass profitable. Some day this 
little value, and finally threw up and sold peninsula, between the ocean and bays, 
tbe place. It is hard to get the grower to will wake up to its advantages in this re¬ 
realize the value of intensive work under spcct. We do not need the heated green- 
glass, and until someone of public spirit houses to grow lettuce, for we can make 
and means starts tbe work it will be a it as fine as anywhere in simple cold, 
long time before it develops. Our grow- frames under glass. But we can also 
era are ambitious to be large truckers— make - the January crop of tomatoes, 
large in the sense of the area cultivated, which the Lake Shore growers cannot 
I know one man near Cleveland, O., grow successfully because of the lack of 
whose annual sales from 12 acres is over Winter sunshine. They grow lettuce till 
$30,000. Half of his 12 acres are under the sun gets higher, and then grow to- 
glass. Down in North Carolina. Mr. matoes and cukes to mature in May and 
Leonard Tufts, the owner of Piuehurst, June. We can grow both of these in 
noted Winter golf players’ resort, has midwinter, for I have done it. 
several greenhouses devoted to lettuce, w. F. massey. 
Horticultural Notes 
Greenhouse Building Plans 
1. Will a house 211/3x50 ft. be large 
enough for a start in a town of 1.000, by 
a man of small means, for variety of 
flowers? 2. Would you advise concrete 
wall up to top of benches? How deep? 
How thick? 5. llow about Washington 
red cedar for woodwork ; that is, for ridge, 
end bars, euve plate, and cypress for sash 
bars? 4. Is angle iron better for eaves 
than wood? I expect to make posts and 
purlins of pipe. 5. Is perky cypress best 
for benches? 0. Is it your experience 
that you can build cheaper by getting 
everything from one firm or by buying 
glass from one. heating from another, and 
so forth? 7. IIow is best way of putting 
in the glass? I propose to use double- 
strength B glass. 1(5x18. 8. Will au even- 
the bars 1(5 in. apart, fill the rabbet with 
the best putty you can obtain; start at 
the bottom : press the first light into the 
putty, and lap the next one over it about 
1 t in., and so on up the roof. Nail each 
light firmly with four zinc glazing nails 
in. long, four to the light. Two of 
them must be placed at the bottom of 
each light in such manner that. it. is im¬ 
possible for it to slip down. Double 
glass is the grade most iu use. 
8. Nearly all houses are erected at the 
present time on the even-span roof plan, 
whether located north and south or east 
and west. 
0. The flow pipes should be overhead, 
supported on the purlins, and the return 
pipes under the benches and along the 
side walls. 
I T has neither the property of “sounding brass” nor 
of a “tinkling cymbal.” Lead is the silent, voice¬ 
less metal. 
But it plays its part in music. Pipes of lead-tin alloy 
are constantly used by the organ builder because of 
its malleability, its freedom from objectionable vibra¬ 
tions, and its durability. 
Lead modestly permits the air vibrations to sing in 
their own pure tones. So, though lead be dumb, it 
does its share to provide the world with music. 
* * * 
There are unnumbered ways in which lead enters 
into your life. There is hardly a phase of human en¬ 
deavor where lead is not called upon for some major 
or minor service. 
It is hard to say which of all is its most important 
function. Paint made from white-lead does a wonderful 
work in preserving wood and metal from destruction 
and in beautifying them as well as protecting them. 
The best paints are made with white-lead. The 
more white-lead a paint contains, the greater are its 
protective qualities. 
Dutch Boy White-Lead 
National Lead Company makes white-lead, mixed 
with pure linseed oil, under the name of Dutch Boy. 
The picture of the Dutch Boy, which you undoubtedly 
know, is the trade mark for this white-lead. 
Write our nearest branch office, Department G. 
for a free copy of our “Wonder Book of Lead,” which 
describes some of the many uses for lead an inter¬ 
esting, educating story of a remarkable metal. 
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Alley 
150' 
Diagram of (1 rcenhoitse Building rian 
span house work all right running east, 
and west? 0. Where would you run the 
heat pipe? 10. What is best heating 
arrangement? 11. With price of gravel 
at 70e per yard, glass $4.50 per box. de¬ 
livered. and* labor 30 to 00c per hour, 
what would the approximate cost be? 
In diagram the ground slopes to the east. 
Iudiana. w. s. 
1. A house 21x50 ft. will, if worked on 
a very intensive scale, produce quite a 
quantity of flowers and plants. If a 
good salesman in a town of 1.600 in¬ 
habitants. you should he aide to sell many 
times more than you can produce with a 
house of this area. This could easily he 
remedied by purchasing whatever surplus 
you would require from some wholesale 
florist in a nearby city. 
2. A concrete wall to the top of the 
benches is the usual method of construc¬ 
tion. with n ventilating sash extending 
from the top of concrete to the eaves, 
about 2 ft. wide. The concrete should 
extend about 12 in. into the soil, and need 
not be over 4 in. thick. Height to eaves 
is usually 514 to 6 ft. 
3. Cypress is the wood generally em¬ 
ployed for all woodwork on the house, 
though some firms use and recommend 
very highly California redwood. lied 
cedar should be excellent for the position 
mentioned. 
4. Angle iron for eaves is the accepted 
method of construction. It is lighter, 
stronger, more durable and casts less 
shadow titan wood. 
5. Pecky Cypress is a wood that looks 
rotten when you purchase it, but will 
outlast almost anything you can buy for 
this purpose, 
(5 This depends upon the mechanical 
ability iff the man doing the work. We 
purchase the materials from whatever 
source we can get the best prices, quality 
considered, and assemble the houses with 
our own men. Anyone who is not me¬ 
chanically incTned will be ahead to pur¬ 
chase the entire framework from one firm 
with instructions how to assemble it. 
Buy the glass from the firm offering it 
at the lowest, prices. Boiler and heating 
nip" can he purchased in the same way. 
7. The glass should he lapped. Space 
I should prefer a heater placed in a 
cellar at the east end of the house. Ac¬ 
cording to the plan, the east end of the 
lot is the lowest, and that is the place I 
would start the greenhouse, instead of the 
middle. If the boiler were placed at 
the east end, there would he plcuty of 
room to extend t lie house to the west, as 
the desire and lnisiuess would warrant. 
The- heating pipes could simply he cut 
arid connected up. or, rather, extended 
to n house that would occupy the entire 
length of the lot. In making, eellnr space 
could be left, for another boiler, or the 
present one could he enlarged if «f sec¬ 
tional construction. 
11. I could only guess at this question, 
and would suggest that you get an esti¬ 
mate from several reliable firms erecting 
greenhouses; then get a separate esti¬ 
mate from some local man on the heating 
system, and another on the glass. It 
does not hurt to shop around a little when 
you have a lot of money to spend. Yon 
can get blue prints with the material 
that will show any local mechanic how to 
erect the house. ELMER J. 'WEAVER. 
Intensive Strawberry Culture 
That is the name of an excellent 
pamphlet by Louis Graton of Whitman. 
Mass. It is easily the best and most 
practical strawberry book we have seen. 
The author is a practical grower, noted 
as the originator of the St. Martin straw¬ 
berry—one of the finest for an intensive 
market. Mr. Graton does not give long 
and elaborate essays on his various sub¬ 
jects, but in a few words and with ex¬ 
cellent pictures tells his story BO that 
anyone can understand him. You may 
know from reading this volume just ex¬ 
actly how to put a strawberry plant into 
the ground, how to care for and protect 
it and how to dispose of the fruit. It 
covers the subject tersely, vigorously and 
well. 
