. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. Built The Unit Way What queer things ideas are! So often you get one and don't know ho n you got it. Then again you just start to put to practical use one idea and without rhyme or reason, up pops another. That's exactly how our unit way of building happened. Mr. Burnhaiu was passing a furniture window one day several years ago, and stopped to look at the display of sectional book cases. The sign told how you could buy one or more sections at a time, and add others as you needed them. There were sketches and photographs showing different arrangemen
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. Built The Unit Way What queer things ideas are! So often you get one and don't know ho n you got it. Then again you just start to put to practical use one idea and without rhyme or reason, up pops another. That's exactly how our unit way of building happened. Mr. Burnhaiu was passing a furniture window one day several years ago, and stopped to look at the display of sectional book cases. The sign told how you could buy one or more sections at a time, and add others as you needed them. There were sketches and photographs showing different arrangements of the sections from just the usual two sections and base, up to a large group com- bined with a writing desk. Fifteen minutes afterward he came into the office, all smil- ing and told us what he had seen and how it was exactly the same principle on which we built and planned our Iron Frame greenhouses, whether for growers or private use. Then he said let's call it "The Unit ; So we did. Each house in this Unit Plan is made up of sections either 8 feet 4 inches long or li' feet (i inches. The length of the house depends on the number of sections used. A range, in turn, is only a group of houses or units. When we plan a layout, always it is done unit by unit. This meaus that each house is directly considered indirect relation to each other. Or if but one house or unit is to be. erected, then we so plan it that other units can be added economically, while at the same time giving the best grow- ing conditions. Done this unit way of ours, you know when you start, exactly where you are started for; and, therefore, where you will eventually land. Take this layout below, for example: the workroom aud left hand unit was firsterected. Two years afterward the right hand one was added. The first unit was complete unto itself and decidedly attractive. The adding of the second unit simply completes the front or ornamental part of the group as originally planned. Later a co
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