ITS OPPORTUNITIES 147 
Asa matter of fact, when one’s mind is once made 
up not to sacrifice the pleasures of gardening for six 
months every year, a little energy, ingenuity and 
a very few dollars will go a long way in providing 
the necessary equipment. 
Nor is the care of the ordinary flowers, and the 
vegetables suited for winter use, such a complicated 
profession that the beginner cannot achieve quite a 
considerable measure of success with his or her very 
first attempts, provided that regular care is given 
the work in hand. It is a much easier task than 
succeeding with plants in the house, notwithstand- 
ing the fact that general opinion is to the contrary. 
It is not necessary to start in on a large scale. 
A very few square feet of soil, where all the con- 
ditions can be controlled as they are under glass, 
will produce an amazing amount. Take for in- 
stance lettuce grown for the home table. How 
good it is right fresh and crisp from the soil com- 
pared to the wilted or artificially revived bunches 
one can get at the grocer’s! Outdoors you put it a 
foot apart in rows a foot and a half apart; a patch 
3x10 feet would give you twenty heads. In the 
home garden under glass you set out a batch of 
Grand Rapids lettuce plants, one of the very best 
in quality, six inches each way, so that a little piece 
of bench 3x10 feet would give you one hundred 
heads (which incidentally at the grocer’s would cost 
you $10. or $12.— enough good money to buy glass 
