THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE OF AMERICA. 



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 BANNER INCUBATORS with Nature. 



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The Relation of Light to Greenhouse Culture 



Being extracts from a series of experiments made by the Mass, Agricultural Experiment Station 



HN July. The Mass. Agricultural Experiment Statitm puhlished a Bulletin makinp; for tlie first time 

 public — the results of a series of exhaustive experiments conducted by them for the past few 

 years. Many of the results are so intensely vital to greenhouse owners and prospective builders, 

 that we have made selections here and there from the text and are giving them below: 

 responsible for many greenhouse 

 .vas crude' 



1. Lack of light 

 diseases. 



2. The old type of greenhouse was crude in construc- 

 tion, especially as regards light. The modern tendency 

 is to build larger houses; to use stronger material, 

 casting less shade; and to use larger and better quality 

 glass. 



3. Large hou*ies can be constructed relatively more 

 cheaply and managed more easily because there is a 

 less rapid change of atmospheric conditions, etc. This 

 helps to eliminate many greenhouse troubles. 



4. Morning light is more intense than afternoon light, 

 our experiments showing a difference of 10 per cent., 

 and ranging as high as 30 per cent, for some houses. 



5. The location of a house as regards points of the 

 compass has a bearing on the practice of syringing 

 plants, the yield of the crop, and to a certain extent 

 on fungus infection. 



6. To obtain the best results in a house running east 

 and west, the house should be from 15 to 30 degrees 

 north of east. This enables the plant to take advan- 

 tage of the more intense morning light and the crop 

 can be syringed with less danger from infection. 



7. There appear to be no important differences in the 

 light in a greenhouse at different distances from the 

 glass, practically the same light being obtained at 

 5 feet as at 30 feet. 



The Experiment Station Bulletin contains over forty pages devoted to the subject. You should 

 read it from cover to cover. The Experiment Station has just written us that they will lie very glad 

 to mail copies of the Bulletin to all who may write for them. 



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