196 GARDENING INDOORS AND UNDER GLASS 
The best varieties of tomatoes for forcing are 
Lorillard, Stirling Castle and Comet; of the cucum- 
bers, Arlington White Spine, Davis Perfected and 
the English forcing varieties. 
If you do not like to stop having lettuce in time 
to give up space to cucumbers or tomatoes, start 
some plants about January first, and have a hotbed 
ready to receive them from the flats before March 
first. With a little care as to ventilation and water- 
ing, they will come along just after the last of the 
greenhouse crops. 
A point not to be overlooked in connection with 
all the above suggestions is that any surplus of these 
fresh out-of-season things may be disposed of 
among your vegetable-hungry friends at the same 
step-ladder prices they are paying the butcher or 
green-grocer for wilted, shipped-about products. 
And don’t get discouraged if some of your experi- 
ments do not succeed the first time. Keep on plan- 
ning, studying and practicing until you are getting 
the maximum returns and pleasure from your glass 
house. 
