. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 1206 The American Florist. Dec. 14, Lord & Burnham's Western Factory. One of the famous English essayists said that gardening is the greatest of human pleasures and another writer has it that Who loves a garden Loves a greenhouse, too. While these sentiments were applied mainly to British horticulture they are true of other temperate countries, per- haps in lesser degree, even the west- ern continent showing a decided tend- ency in the same direction as men ac- quire wealth and leisure. There can be no doubt a
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 1206 The American Florist. Dec. 14, Lord & Burnham's Western Factory. One of the famous English essayists said that gardening is the greatest of human pleasures and another writer has it that Who loves a garden Loves a greenhouse, too. While these sentiments were applied mainly to British horticulture they are true of other temperate countries, per- haps in lesser degree, even the west- ern continent showing a decided tend- ency in the same direction as men ac- quire wealth and leisure. There can be no doubt as to the friendly attitude of the inhabitants of the United States and Canada toward gardening and that the greenhouse and conser\-atory as necessary adjuncts of the home and garden are coming into popular de- mand is well borne out by the growth of the business of building green- houses, private as well as commercial, the latter now because of climatic con- ditions already an indispensable in- stitution in the production of fiowers, fruits and vegetables for market. The Lord & Burnham Co., the well known New York horticultural build- ers, found the growth of the business such that in May, 1909, it was thought advisable to open offices and estab- lish a branch manufactory in the west. Accordingly Geo. Sykes, a member of the firm, long familiar with its tradi- tions for good work in this line, opened an office in the Rookery building, Chi- cago, and located the factory site at Des Plaines, a Chicago suburb some 35 minutes' ride from the city, the original buildings as shown in the il- lustration herewith occupying an area of 140x200 feet, exclusive of power house, coal shed and boiler rooms, with track accommodations on the Soo and Chicago & Northwestern Rail- roads. One of the best features of this establishment is a concrete load- ing platform running the entire length of the factory level with the floors of the cars and the buildings so that load- ing and unloading ca
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