. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. |Y a strange coincidence the longest greenhouse in Amer- ica, and the widest, the two largest glass roofed struc- tures in the world, both col- lapsed St. Valentine's day. Une of these houses was that of Wm. H. Elliott, at Madbury, N. H. It was 60x1,360, and about one-third went down. The other was the famous house of the Florex Gardens, at North Wales, Pa. It is 172x750 and the way it looked the day after the storm is shown in the accompanying illustration. Worst Storm in Years. The heaviest storm in many years swept over the north Atlantic states
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. |Y a strange coincidence the longest greenhouse in Amer- ica, and the widest, the two largest glass roofed struc- tures in the world, both col- lapsed St. Valentine's day. Une of these houses was that of Wm. H. Elliott, at Madbury, N. H. It was 60x1,360, and about one-third went down. The other was the famous house of the Florex Gardens, at North Wales, Pa. It is 172x750 and the way it looked the day after the storm is shown in the accompanying illustration. Worst Storm in Years. The heaviest storm in many years swept over the north Atlantic states February 14. From Philadelphia north into New England the fall of snow was the heaviest known within the period that the greenhouse industry has had its great development. The test put upon glass roofs was the most severe that has been known since the big modern houses have come into exist- ence. The snow was deep and wet and in addition to its great weight there was the pressure of a high wind. Small losses were numerous and that there were not more of them, and more im- portant losses, is a splendid testimonial to the stability of up-to-date green- house construction. The Collapse at Madbury, N. H. About noon February 14, during the height of the fiercest snow storm New England has experienced in some years, a section of William H. Elliott's mam- moth greenhouse, at Madbury, N. H., collapsed, owing to the tremendous weight of snow lying on the roof, added to a cyclonic gale with an average velocity of sixty miles per hour. At Madbury the snow lay from three to five feet on the level, many drifts being ten to fifteen feet deep. The fallen part of the house measures 60x400, being practically one-third of the big house, which measures 1,360 feet long, and contains about two and one-half sections, one being devoted to carnations and the balance to roses. None of the working force was in the collapsed section when it fell, but those in an adjoining section said it seemed to fall
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