The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-08-07
SkOWHEGANS LATEST
ENTERPRISE
Buchanan Greenhouses are Handsome
Iy Arranged and up to the Minute
In Equipment

The buchanan Greenhouses on
Madison Avenue. of which F. W
Buchanan is proprietor, are practical
ly completed and are modern in every
respect. These buildings have been
built at the rear of the handsome
buchanan residence and include an
Office. fern room and the main green
house. This main house Is 36 146
feet and stands six feet high at the
caves and fifteen feet at the ridge
pole. Six benches run practically
the entire length of this building,
while there are eight solid benches,
each twelve feet long, which are de-
signed for deep rooted plants, such as
sweet peas etc The frame is OF all
steel construction, with very large
glass the panes being 16 20. the
largest manufactured by any green
house company. These are so de-
signed as to give the maximum
amount of light. with the minimum
amount of shade. Like a steel bridge
the house is so built as to avoid any
sagging, 1t is equipped with a most
up-to-date yentilating device, heing
so arranged that two wheels open the
ventilators, evenly on both ends, one
wheel ventilating sevently-fye feet.
This same system prevails on the
south side of the building. The
heating system, which is Of hot water,
is thoroughly modern, having eight
lines of two inch pipe, with four
pipes in each line or In other words
about one and one-half mills of piping
are used in the building. This has
been arranged to give the proper
amount of heat in all weather, with
out forcing the fire. The house Is
equipped with modern lighting
system, the wires being concealed in
metal conduits The water Is fur
nished direct from well, located in
in the boiler room and pumped into
the pressure tank by electricity. A
large refrigerator of the floral type
is about to be installed in the work
room, the same to be cooled by an
electrical method This work room
is eighteen feet square and has all
the conveniences to be required In
conducting the enterprise. The fern
house or show room lies directly be-
tween the conservatory and main
Office. This is being fitted up in
very charming fashion and in It's
center is a goldfish tank.
Mr.. Buchanan has already benched
five thousand carnation plants of the
best variety, which are expected to
produce blossoms from October on,
He shas also many chysanthemums,
snap dragons and a general assort-
ment of plants, which will produce
flowers a little later. This hot house
is to be run at fifty degrees farenheit
at night or in dull weather, and Is
we'll adapted for the growing carna-
tons, in which Mr. Buchanan will
specialize. While roses cannot be
grown, In a house carried at this tenn
perature, Mr.. Buchanan Will endeavor
to carry a stock of the same and con-
duct all parts OF the general green
house business.
Altho this in way Is new ven
ture for Mr.. Bucknam, 1t is we'll
known that he and Mrs. Buchanan
have been much interested in flowers
and that they have grown them for
commercial purposes, in their spa
cious garden, adjoining the green
house. Their gardens, at the present
time, are exceedingly lovely with
many varieties of the seasons flowers
and the greenhouse buildings, them
selves, are models of beauty.