. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. JOS. HEACOCK NEW GREENHOUSE AND BOILER HOMSH: AT ROELOFS, PA were being crowded out and it was Anally determined to devote the entire space at Wyncote to palms and orchids, which latter flower have of late been given considerable attention, and new houses should be built for rose forcing. For this purpose a farm of fifty-seven acres at Roelofs, on the New York di- vision of the Reading Road, was pur- chased, and the Lord & Burnham Co. was given the order for one of their most modern iron frame structures,
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. JOS. HEACOCK NEW GREENHOUSE AND BOILER HOMSH: AT ROELOFS, PA were being crowded out and it was Anally determined to devote the entire space at Wyncote to palms and orchids, which latter flower have of late been given considerable attention, and new houses should be built for rose forcing. For this purpose a farm of fifty-seven acres at Roelofs, on the New York di- vision of the Reading Road, was pur- chased, and the Lord & Burnham Co. was given the order for one of their most modern iron frame structures, 600 feet long and 55 feet six inches in width. This is a model house in every respect, the shadeless ridge is twenty- three feet high, a three-foot cement wall is surmounted with three feet six ? inches of glass which contains a row of side ventilation. There is also a con- tinuous row of sash ventilators on either side of the ridge. The house runs 14 points north of east and has a fall of only thirty inches in its entire length. There is very little drainage, being but two three-inch drains three feet below the surface the full length of the house. A walk or division of eight feet across the center of the house gives a working space from which nine four- foot beds extend to each end of the house, these are separated by twenty- inch walks, each bed is bordered with a two by 12-inch curb is set about four inches in the ground. In the ends of the curb iron pipes are imbedded, level with the top, into which are placed smaller iron pipe that carry the wires which run the length of the house and to which the rose stakes are attached with Court's patent fasteners. There are 8,000 pink Killarney, 5,000 White Killarney and 300 Richmond roses growing in these beds and all are the picture of vigor and health. The heat- ing is by steam and is brought into the at the mines. A blower, working auto- matically, keeps a forced draft under the furiaces on any reduction of the pressure. The wat
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