3n>; FRENCH GARDENING, AND 



OTHER GARDENING UNDER GLASS 



which its makers claim many desirable things. It 

 seems as if their claims were being well sustained by 

 the experience of those using the Sunlight Double Glass 

 Sash, as it is called. The frames are made of red 

 cypress and are fitted with rustless springs and stops to 

 hold the glass in the grooves and thus do away with the 

 expense and bother of glazing. There is a space of dead 

 air between the two layers of glass, which resists the 

 cold from without, and prevents the escape of heat from 

 within. The sash are sufficiently air-tight for ordinary 

 weather, and when the thermometer falls, the moisture 

 which has gathered between the two layers of glass, 

 freezes and seals the sash practically air-tight. 



The makers claim that Sunlight Double Glass Sash 

 save more than half the labor, worry and expense of 

 growing plants in cold-frames and hot-beds, and insure 

 better plants, and, therefore, better crops, than can be 

 secured under the same conditions from single-layer 

 sash. They do away with the necessity of covering the 

 frames with mats or boards, being warmer than the sin- 

 gle-layer sash even though covered with mats or boards. 

 Frames or beds filled with half-hardy plants, such as 

 lettuce, cabbage or cauliflower, need no extra covering 

 even in zero weather; and as far north as northeastern 

 Ohio, with the thermometer nearly down to zero, even 

 tomatoes, peppers and eggplants have been raised with- 

 out additional covering, although this may not always 

 be done. Light is never excluded from the growing 

 plants by night or day, and in the short winter days of 

 this climate, there is some advantage to that. Even 



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