28 Gardening Under Glass 



occupied. I thought of all my plants. So I 

 took it. 



But here was a problem. jNIy house was 15 

 X 20 feet, which equaled 300 square feet of 

 "flower space." The new liouse was 80 x 22, or 

 1,760 square feet; and a run of frames the entire 

 length outside besides, which brings us to the 

 subject of this chapter; for as soon as j^ou decide 

 on a greenhouse the fun begins. At least, mine 

 did. 



Getting the Plants in Advance 



Here it was the middle of August and 1,760 

 square feet of greenhouse space to fill, and I 

 without any knowledge of what to get and the 

 necessity of making that house pay its wa3^ 



Luckily, the man who was working for me was 

 not quite ignorant of greenhouse work. In fact, 

 he had had considerable experience on that very 

 place. But that wasn't all! He was one of 

 those natural-born plant hypnotizers — the kind 

 that can stick a dead twig upside down in the 

 ground, and when you're not looking will say 

 some mysterious formula over it and have it 

 sprouting green in a fortnight. You have met 

 that sort? So far as I have ever been able to 

 solve the mysterj^ it is just a love of growing 

 things, so strong that it outbalances gravity, and 



