. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 18 The Florists^ Review Fbbbuabt 19. 1020. CXm U^Xm^J^ READEaS> for free seeds. Here's the secret of much legislation. Politics pure and sim- ple. The farmer's vote is necessary to the politician. Maybe the only way of injecting reasonable common sense into the "powers that be" is by bringing them to an appreciation of the value of the votes held by those who love flowers and gardens and cater to their needs. E. H. Wilson. SNOW ON GREENHOUSES. There are times when "scientific facts" and practical application refuse to work to
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 18 The Florists^ Review Fbbbuabt 19. 1020. CXm U^Xm^J^ READEaS> for free seeds. Here's the secret of much legislation. Politics pure and sim- ple. The farmer's vote is necessary to the politician. Maybe the only way of injecting reasonable common sense into the "powers that be" is by bringing them to an appreciation of the value of the votes held by those who love flowers and gardens and cater to their needs. E. H. Wilson. SNOW ON GREENHOUSES. There are times when "scientific facts" and practical application refuse to work together. Instances of this are the recent greenhouse accidents at North Wales, Pa., and elsewhere. The office man tells one that certain glass will stand a pressure of thirty pounds to the square foot when the pressure is evenly applied. Any practical florist knows that this is impossible in the case of snow on a greenhouse. When snow falls on a greenhouse, that which falls on the glass begins to melt, while that on the bars does not. As the snow continues to fall, sooner or later—depending on the inside tem- perature—an arch or bridge is formed between the bars. In the case of bars set sixteen inches apart, this bridge is sufficient to withstand almost any amount of snow. I have seen it hold up three feet of drifts, endangering the bars themselves, as they had the whole weight to support, hardly an ounce of weight being on the glass. But where bars are set twenty-four inches apart, under a snow arch of that length glass will not stand up and, of course, gives way in the middle, since the pressure there is farthest from the supporting rods. It is a safe bet that, if the glass had been set the 16-inch way, not a pane would have been broken. Certainly the little additional light obtained with 24-inch glass would not justify the ordinary florist in thus playing vdth fate, since the odds against him would be too large. S. C, Templin. QUABANTININa THE OBIENT. A recent mail brough
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