The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-06-02
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A BALTIMORE COUNTY INDUSTRY
The Complete Establishment of Messrs.
Richard Vincent, Jr. & Son, at
White Marsha Great
Enterprise

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4. Vincent, Jr. g. Son, of White Marsh, Nd,
nave just finished the construction of their new
store house, packing shed and boiler house which
nave been several months under way, giving
them largely increased facilities for the prose-
cution of their already large and growing bust
ness Of producing and distributing Towering and
vegetable plants, special line in which they are
most extensively employed. The firm takes
great pride in the fact that the new structures
were entirely built by their own people. and all
the mechanical work and the wiring for light
ing was accomplished by the younger member
OF the firm and their regular employees. This
includes the masonry, carpentry, setting the
boilers, piping, painting and glazing, concreting.
ana all the other various operations necessarily
included in the erection and equipment of two
buildings one of which measures 30x2l0 feet, and
the other (the boiler and engine house, shelters
Two return tubular boilers, each of 80 horse
power, with brick smoke stack so feet high.
The packing house gives ample space in the
basement for the storage of dahlias and other
roofs being, of course frost proof. light and dry,
and where they may be kept easily accessible
and at any temperature desired. Here are the
TOOL rooms, storage for soil, fertilizers and other
materials, and in one corner the electric plant,
which comprises an engine of IS horsepower
and dynamo of the latest approved type and
efficiency. This supplies the current for about
600 lamps which are distributed throughout the
greenhouses, the Offices and packing sheds, the
stables and the grounds Immediately surround
ing the plant, as well as to the handsome dwell
ing of the senior member of the firm On the
FIRST floor are well arranged and commodious
ofhces, extensive apartments where the daily
shipments are collected, checked, packed and
forwarded; and on the second floor is storage
capacity for the empty boxes in which these
shipments are made to every nook and corner of
the country. These empties are laid in by the
carload and run up annually into the tens of
thousands, the requirements being lightness
and strength. In addition to these are used
great quantities of splint baskets, which when
the journey is not too long are admirably adapt
ed for shipping plants in moderate quantities
and weighs. Small card board boxes for mail
orders are also laid in and used by the thousand.
On this fioorare mice proof shelves for the vari-
GUS seeds from which the successive crops of
plants are produced, and which must be kept in
the most favorable condition to maintain their
vitality and high terminating power. These
seeds are secured from the leading growers both
of this country and of Europe. On the immense
floor space in tae airy attic bulbs of various
kinds are dried and stored. Everywhere are
faucets and hose N case of fire. In the boiler
house, which is separated from the main struc-
ture, In addition to the two boilers is large
pump which forces water throughout the entire
establishment. Provision is made for storing
nearly enough coal fora seasons supply, and in
case of any accident to the battery of six huge
Furman boilers which furnish heat for the great
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at least prevent the entrance of frost into the
houses at any low temperature likely to be en-
countered in this latitude, connections being
made with the pipe system of all the ranges.
The packing house is connected by tunnels with
all the greenhouses, so that plants to be shipped
can be collected without exposure to the cold in
any season. The system of electric lighting
gives longer working day in the dark season
and facilitates operations in handling products
stored in the easements. A telephone system
adds to the completeness of the equipment, and
any employee can be reached instantly in any
house or department or from Office headquarters.
The new geraniums which were acquired last
summer in Scotland, England and France by
this firm are still arriving and the next edition
to be published of their geranium catalogue will
be enriched by the addition of sorts quite equal
in merit to those which made that publication
SO marked success in its line. The acquisition
of new and desirable varieties of dahlias now
occupies attention and it is the intention of this
energetic firm to include in their collection the
best sorts of every prominent cultivator, here
and abroad. to meet the demand for fine dahlias.
With the great expanse of glass at their COM
mand this firm will find themselves unable to
propagate stock enough to meet the demands of
their trade for the newer and most promising
geraniums, and they are already making prepa-
rations to erect other houses of the area of half
an acre in which to plant out the stock of the
sorts which are most in demand. From the
greenhouses there are four shipments daily, SO
that to every section of the country the first ex
press delivery is secured. The tomato, pepper,
medium season cabbage, eggplant and other
crops are now in immense demand and with
celery and Towering plants make trade not
only of gigantic proportions but of nature very
exacting as to promptness and care in handling.
The thorough system here in evidence seems to
leave nothing lacking in this regard.
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