. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. The Question of Shade in Ridge and Furrow Houses ALONG the middle of last August, when in Pittsburgh, I took the trolley one fine morning out to Bakerstown, to visit again the range of the Pittsburgh Cut FlQwer Co. Was fortunate in finding Mr. Burki at his office. In his characteristic direct way, all formalities were soon out of the way and he was talking greenhouse facts and figures. Most of his eight acres of glass are separate houses, but he has two blocks of connected ridge and furrow ones. In 1911 wc sold him 10 each 12' 0" wide and 100'
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. The Question of Shade in Ridge and Furrow Houses ALONG the middle of last August, when in Pittsburgh, I took the trolley one fine morning out to Bakerstown, to visit again the range of the Pittsburgh Cut FlQwer Co. Was fortunate in finding Mr. Burki at his office. In his characteristic direct way, all formalities were soon out of the way and he was talking greenhouse facts and figures. Most of his eight acres of glass are separate houses, but he has two blocks of connected ridge and furrow ones. In 1911 wc sold him 10 each 12' 0" wide and 100' long. Last year, however, he bought another of our separate houses 41' 4" X 583' 4" and this brings us to the main point of this Ad. —the shade in con- nected houses. In passing through some of these houses, the benches of which had just been white- washed ready for new soil, Mr. Burki called my attention to the difference in the shadow cast by the sun on the benches by the gutter, and by the ridge. The ridge shadow measured three inches. This sketch shows the shade cast by the ridge the gutter In a con- In width, and the gut- nected, or ridge and furrow house, at noon on the shortest December day. The ters 7% Inches, or single wide house the same width as the two connected ones takes no more roof more than twice as than the two narrow ones and you do away entirely with the gutter and the ^"y when and where much. one extra rldge. nnd we'll be there. When you consider that this was at one o'clock on a day in the middle of August, when the sun was high and cast- ing the shortest shadow, the thought of what that shadow Is, during the short days of December, when the sun hangs low, is certainly such as to make a man sit up and take notice. Not only will the shade be much broader but in combi- nation with the ridge the shadow is practically continuous, as shown by this line drawing. Mr. Burki declares that he wants no more connected houses. Such a statement co
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