148 GARDENING INDOORS AND UNDER GLASS 
for a quite roomy little lean-to). (See page 164.) 
Details of construction, etc., are given in the fol- 
lowing pages, but the most important thing of all is 
just to make up your mind that you will have a lit- 
tle greenhouse of your own. If you once decide to 
have it the way can be found, for the necessary cash 
outlay is very small indeed. 
Think of the variety of ways you could use such 
a winter garden! Not only may lettuce, radishes, 
tomatoes, cucumbers, beets and other vegetables be 
had out of season, but you can get a better start 
with your garden than ever before — put it weeks 
and weeks ahead of the old sow-out-in-the-ground 
way. And then consider the flowers! A dozen 
carnation plants, for instance, would occupy about 
six square feet of room, say 2 x 3 feet of bench, and 
would supply you comfortably with blossoms all 
winter long — nice fresh ones outlasting twice over 
the cold storage blooms from the retail florist’s — 
to say nothing of the added value of having them 
actually home grown. 
