Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-11-19
BUILDING IMMENSE
Glass Structures
10000 SQUARE FEET OF TRANS
PARENT MATERIAL GOING
UP Al SAND SPRINGS
Green HOUSE COVERS acre
Everything 10 be Sown in thc Ground
and Not in Rcnches-Iargest In
the State.

When the mammoth greenhouses
now under construction at Sand
Springs are completed almost an acre
Of ground will be covered with glass.
More than 10000 square feet of the
transparent material NYil be needed
Tor The roofs which will cover the most
modern hothouse buildings that can
be erected.
For the past couple Of years or SO,
one greenhouse 1S5 by rs feet has
been in operation at Sand SPRINGS.
The heavy demands on this house
caused its production to be made
Guate, and several weeks ago there
were STATED three additional houses
between the old one and the Katy
tracks Each of these will be lS5
10y 90 feet, and instead Of being equip
ped with hot water pipes for heating
purposes, steam pipes will carry
warmth to all parts\ Of the buildings
From the inside, the new structure
will virtually be one house, and al
most an acre Of ground will be taken
up by all Of the houses.
4 concrete base well four inches In
thickness is being built on the four
sides of the new houses These struc-
tires win be somewhat different
when finished from the ordinary
.eenhous. in that there will be no
benches in them for he growing Of
Ilants Everything that is grown will
begrovn in the same way that it is
grown on the outside in the summer
time. Pipes for carrying the steam
will run both at the top and at the
bottom OF the houses, thus preventing
any cold air from touching growing
vegetation.
An immense amount Of structural
steel is required In these buildings,
Iractically all Of which is now on the
ground and will be shaped up JUS
as soon as the concrete work Is fin
ishcd and the boilers installed for
furnishing the steam. An immense
amount of labor is required to erect
the structures, and it will likely be
couple Of months or so before they
are completed.
In the present greenhouse, the
growing Of flowers and vegetables for
tie childrcns home has been carried
on extensively, the plants being trans
pianted on the home grounds each
spring. Cut flowers for commercial
PURPOSES have also been successfully
handled, the city Of Tulsa offering
an exceptionally good market all
through the winter months. The
greenhouse has at this time benches
with more than b00 rcsebushes bud
ding or in bloom, with fully as many
carnations of all colors. This fall the
Sand Springs greenhouse grew chrys-
anthemums that measured 20 Inches
In circumference, representing almost
perfect white and yellow and Law
endar balls more than eight inches
through
Boththe growing Of flowers and
vegetable plants will be carried on
much more extensively when the new
houses are completed, and through
out the winter months the vegetables
will be allowed to mature in the
greenhouses.
Growing plants and shrubs for Sand
Springs park each season requires al
most the full product of one house
and with the establishment of the
other three houses this winer. II will
be possible TO add a greater attract
iveness TO the park next season by
reason OF many more beds Of flower
ing plants and shrubs.