. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. mv*;^iK'^^*Tr'!fr"'.- ^, '^.?7i'^r^wny'fi»v%v.'um^'s-i^yiM^!f^ ii^* 180 The Rorists' Review ?pbil 2«. 1B22. F. (J. l^wis. Florist at I^K'kport, N. Y. But Young You might think we mean Mr. Lewis, but we don't. It's about the youth and age of some heating pipe that -we had In mind. Or to be exact, what Mr. Lewis most ooiirteously reminded us, ougrht to be put in your min<i. Along- in March he wrote us a letter. A voluntary letter written just because he thought you folks ought to know one more of the dependnblf points about us, that he knows.


. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. mv*;^iK'^^*Tr'!fr"'.- ^, '^.?7i'^r^wny'fi»v%v.'um^'s-i^yiM^!f^ ii^* 180 The Rorists' Review ?pbil 2«. 1B22. F. (J. l^wis. Florist at I^K'kport, N. Y. But Young You might think we mean Mr. Lewis, but we don't. It's about the youth and age of some heating pipe that -we had In mind. Or to be exact, what Mr. Lewis most ooiirteously reminded us, ougrht to be put in your min<i. Along- in March he wrote us a letter. A voluntary letter written just because he thought you folks ought to know one more of the dependnblf points about us, that he knows. Here is what letter said: ?'It may interest you to know that there is some jiip- ing in a greenhouse across the street from me that your firm put in for my grandfather, E. B. Lewis, sometime between 1865 and 1870. "There have been several boilers put in and con- nected up to the pipes, since the first one, and also two or three houses rebuilt over the pipe. But the old pipe is still doing business just as good as the day your men fired up the first time. Even tho brick foundations are still in ; And now let us add to Mr. Lewis's comments, that when we first started in b\isiness, (which was many years ago) heating was all we did. We used to heat OO'^r tf all the grefnhousfs thru tnjilt in the East Kinall.\ oiu? ui the greenhouse building concerns came to the conclusion that they would go after some of that heating business. So. just to return tlie ccmpliment, we decided to build greenhouses as well as heat them. So you see we have always been strong on the heat- ing side of greenhouses. Tliat happened a long time ago. Our chief heating expert, "old war horse MacArthur" as we call him, has been with us for many years. He started in doing what that chap below is doing He knows heating from the bottom up. Being one of your hard lieaded, sound sensed Scotch- men he's not much on theory. Rut he is a bear cat when it comes to facts. Based on facts, he


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