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prompt atten-tion by the railroad com]Danies in transit. 
We have had considerable trouble the past season in getting 
shipments of nursery stock to our customers in anything like 
a reasonable length of time. 
Westminster, Md. The Westminster Nursery. 
All nursery stock of planting 1910 and 1911 is doing well— 
and while we were late with our spring planting, think stock 
looks as if we will not have much loss, as it is starting well. 
We have about our usual planting, except that we increased 
on apple planting. 
Richmond, Va. W. T. Hood & Co. 
Under the head of “General Observations,” one of the 
many serious problems which confronts the nurseryman is 
the demand of landscape architects that the nurserymen 
sell and bill to their clients at their wholesale rates. This 
is entirely wrong, and although the National Nurseryman’s 
Association passed a resolution that the clients of landscape 
architects would not receive wholesale rates, this resolution 
has not been followed up by all of the nurserymen. 
Again, cemeteries, parks, and municipalities should not 
receive the same wholesale quotations as are given to the 
nurseryman. The trade should be protected. 
Augusta, Ga. P. J. Berckmans Co. 
A MODERN NURSERY OFFICE 
By H. Harold Hume 
In planning a building for the office force of a nursery 
business, the essential points to be kept in mind are that the 
building should be large 
enough for present and future- 
needs and that the several 
divisions of this force, order 
department, shipping depart¬ 
ment, accounting department, 
etc., should be placed in con¬ 
venient working relation to 
one another. The space set 
aside for each of the depart¬ 
ments must not be too great, 
as this will impair their work¬ 
ing efficiency. But on the 
other hand, where the men 
are so crowded at their work 
that their movements inter¬ 
fere with or interrupt one 
another, it goes without say¬ 
ing that their work cannot be 
handled with such dispatch as 
when they are given sufficient 
space to work without getting 
in the way of one another. 
Combined with a comfortable 
and convenient internal ar¬ 
rangement, there should, of 
course, be a fitting architec¬ 
tural exterior. 
These were the points held 
in view when the new office 
building of the Glen Saint 
Alary Nurseries Company was 
erected. The details of the 
building were carefully worked 
out well in advance by the 
architect, Mr. J. H. W. Haw¬ 
kins of Jacksonville, Florida. 
The walls are selected, hard burned, common brick laid in 
colored cement mortar, the joints wide and raked back, 
giving a rustic finish. The trimmings are gray cement stone 
and the hip roof is covered with gray Century a.sbestos 
shingles. The most noticeable thing about the roof is the 
overhang of four feet, which permits the lowering of the 
windows from the top even during very stormy or rainy 
weather. 
The central part of the 
building is two stories and 
the side wings one story. If 
at any time it should become 
necessary to secure more space, 
this can be done by extending 
the wings. It is not likely 
that the central or adminis¬ 
trative portion of the building 
will ever need to be enlarged. 
Over all, the building meas¬ 
ures 86' 6 " east and west. 
The central or two story por¬ 
tion is 35' 6 ''x 38' and the 
wings are each 25' 6” x 22' 6 ". 
The two story section is 
fronted on the south by a porch 
53' 6 " X 9', there being three 
entrances from this porch, one 
into each wing and the front 
or main doors. At the rear is 
a smaller porch for unloading 
stationery, catalogues and 
other office supplies. 
Entering the front door, 
the president’s office is seen 
on the right, the secretary’s 
office on the left, each 12 x 16' 
2”. These two offices occupy 
the space in front of the hall 
which connects the two wings. 
Back of this hall is the store 
room for office supplies (13' 2 ” 
X 15' 9”), the.lavatory (6' 6” 
X 13' 2”), and the vault (7' 
8” X 10' 9”). The entrance 
to the vault is into the gen¬ 
eral business office which occupies the whole of the west 
wing (20 X 24 ft.). The east wing (20 x 24 ft.) is the 
stenographers’ room, and there the current correspondence 
files are kept. 
The second story of the central part of the building is 
reached by a broad stairway from the lower halls. On the 
Front View, Glen Saint Mary Nurseries’ Office. 
Administrative Office from Southeast. 
