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How to Make a Flower Garden 



III. Grow the Easy Things 

 By J. A. Ellis 



Advice of a Canadian amateur ivJio on'iis a fiftecn-by-twcnty greenhouse costing one 



hundred dollars 



I HAVE a small garden in which I grow many flowers and vegetables. 

 Some years ago I decided to build a little greenhouse in which I 



could raise my own 

 plants in the spring 

 for the garden, and 

 which would be a 

 "thing of beauty and 

 a joy forever" during 

 the remainder of the 

 year. Accordingly, I 

 constructed a lean-to, 

 about twenty feet by 

 fifteen. It cost me 

 about one hundred 

 dollars. 



At first I thought 

 I would run it all the 

 year round. Not 

 having a furnace in 

 my house, I heated it 

 by means of hard 

 wood burned m a large 

 box-stove, and found 

 this did very well so 

 long as the fire was 

 properly looked after. 

 This, I knew, would 

 entail my getting up 

 in the middle of the night, w^hen the weather was zero or thereabouts, to 

 renew the fire, but I had no fear about my not doing this. However, I 



Chrysanthemums on a side bench 



