The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade . on with theBenthey-Coatsworth whose green-houses he has managed for the lasttwelve years. Cause of Iron Gutters Bursting:. raprr liy 1[. S. (laiiunil licforo tlir- rrl-City FioilHta Club, Davecport, lu., April 11,191-. A recent issue of a horticultural pa-per in reporting the meeting of thissociety gave the topics which had beendiscussed, among wliich was TheCause of the Bursting of Iron Gutters.(Jrasping the opportunity I immediate-ly re(iuested that I be granted theprivilege of discussing the suliject withyou and to also mak
The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade . on with theBenthey-Coatsworth whose green-houses he has managed for the lasttwelve years. Cause of Iron Gutters Bursting:. raprr liy 1[. S. (laiiunil licforo tlir- rrl-City FioilHta Club, Davecport, lu., April 11,191-. A recent issue of a horticultural pa-per in reporting the meeting of thissociety gave the topics which had beendiscussed, among wliich was TheCause of the Bursting of Iron Gutters.(Jrasping the opportunity I immediate-ly re(iuested that I be granted theprivilege of discussing the suliject withyou and to also make several demon-strations to prove what I have wishedto say. Througli the kindness of yoursecretary my petition was granted. It gives me great pleasure thereforeto lie with you and meet here to dis-cuss with you things which are to ourmutual benefit. I heartily believe thatthe florist and the supply man shouldget together on a common plane andwork out things which will benefitlioth. Before I begin in detail to enu-merate to you step by step the points. H. S. Garland. to be brought out in our discussion to-night, I wish to say that I havebrought with me two Garland gutters,with which I will make my demon-strations. I know that the most of theflorists have the Show me nature orthe one complimentary thereto, I amfrom Missouri. Therefore, I darednot come to you empty handed. Oneof these gutters is like the ones whichmany of you now have. The other isknown as a semi-malleable gutter. AllGarland gutters are now being putthrough a special process. Now let us start from the bottomup. The first thing to be consideredis the quality of the iron of which castiron gutters should be made. Ourtwenty years experience in the manu-facture of iron gutters, for twelveyears of which we maintained our ownfoundry, has taught us the kind of ironto use. You may know that there arefour important component parts ofiron: silicon, manganese, phosphorusand sulphur. Their respective amountsin percentage can
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