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CHAPTER XXVI 
VEGETABLE AND BEDDING PLANTS FOR SPRING 
' N y HILE it is true that there are many ways 
in which one may save money with a 
small greenhouse all through the year, the 
best chance for making money is by growing vege- 
table and bedding plants in the spring. Bedding 
stock is what the florists term geraniums, coleus, 
begonias and other plants used for setting out 
flower beds in the spring. 
In every community a large number of such 
plants are used and the case will be rare indeed in 
which one will meet with any difficulty in disposing 
of quite a number of such plants among immediate 
neighbors and friends. 
The number of plants which can be grown in the 
spring with even a very small house and a few sash 
is quite surprising. The secret of the mystery lies, 
of course, in the fact that in their early stages, seed- 
lings and cuttings, the plants occupy very little room; 
while as soon or soon after they are transplanted or 
shifted to large pots they are shoved outdoors into 
coldframes. ‘As the tender vegetables, such as to- 
matoes, peppers, egg-plant, etc., are not started until 
after the hardier ones, cabbage, lettuce, cauliflower, 
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