. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. i6. The American Florist. Sept. rs^ Greenhouse Gutters. If Messrs. Busch & Purzner would use common roofing tar and with an old brush swab their greenhouse gutters they probably would never leak. Try it. Melt the tar and pour it into the dry giilirr in small quantities and while it is in a liquid state spread it evenly with your brush or swab. James T. Bakkk. Bustleton, Phila. In answer to Busch & PurzHer'sinijuiry for the best material to prevent green- house gutters from leaking, would recom- mend Trinid
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. i6. The American Florist. Sept. rs^ Greenhouse Gutters. If Messrs. Busch & Purzner would use common roofing tar and with an old brush swab their greenhouse gutters they probably would never leak. Try it. Melt the tar and pour it into the dry giilirr in small quantities and while it is in a liquid state spread it evenly with your brush or swab. James T. Bakkk. Bustleton, Phila. In answer to Busch & PurzHer'sinijuiry for the best material to prevent green- house gutters from leaking, would recom- mend Trinidad asphalt, such as is used for paving purposes. We have used this material some IS months on gutters on which the tin had rusted out and find it after many experiments the most satis- factory material we have yet tried, and have this season used it exclusively on a lot of new houses. This material can be readih' procured in a similar form to pitch at from $5 to $6 per bbl. Our plan of applying it is to boil it in a large gypsy kettle (it requires a very high temperature to bring it to a liquid form),boiling it asthin as possible, then simply pouring it into the gutters with buckets, beginning at the highest point and letting each bucketful run as far as it will. Applied in this way one coat will run about one quarter of an inch in depth and one barrel will cover a gutter 12 inches wide by 100 feet long. Jacob D. Eisele. In answer to query in Florist of Sep- tember 1 regarding leaky gutters, allow me to say that after six years of grief with leaky gutters, and during that time experimenting with tar, pitch, paint, putty and cement, we have decided that the best thing to do is to tin the gutters with a good quality of tin, painted well on both sides, and to recover it with paint once every season. Des Moines, la. T- F- Marshall. OUR . • ®" HALF-TONE ENGRAVINGS . ABE MADE BY . f. MANZ & CO., Engravers, 183 to 187 Monroe St., CHICAGO, ILL. The work in this journal apfa
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