December, 1907 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



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 P. O. Box 39, Fresno, California 



Greenhouses as Money Makers 



CjThe small private greenhouse is a most satisfactory possession for those who want either a 

 delightful hobby, or as a pleasure giving addition to the home, but what of you, who must make 

 your business your hobby ? Suppose, for instance, your present vocation is running down your 

 health, or the grind of city life has got on your nerves, what chance is there for making a living 

 out of, say, two of our Sectional Iron Frame Greenhouses, 30 feet wide and 200 or 300 feet long ? 

 There is every chance ! As a matter of fact, you take no chance at all — it can be done and done 

 easily. For example, there is lettuce growing ; three crops can be raised in the year. It requires 

 seventy days from seed planting to marketing. Start your first crop in September and by the 

 last of March three crops will have been grown. These can be followed by cucumbers, which 

 ten weeks later you can begin to pick, and they will continue to bear until the first of August. 



tjGood head lettuce retails for 75 cents to $1.00 per dozen, and even the poorer grades cost 50 

 cents. Cucumbers, the first in market, command as high as $3.00 per dozen, and generally 

 average 60 cents to 75 cents the season through. Tomatoes easily yield seven pounds to a plant, 

 with the price averaging 40 cents per pound. So you see there is a pretty comfortable profit for 

 the grower even when sold direct to the markets. 



<][There will be plenty of your friends and acquaintances to discourage you at the start, by telling 

 you "competition is so keen, markets uncertain," and all that sort of thing ; and in a way they 

 are right when it comes to raising the ordinary run of hot house products, but you are not going to 

 grow that kind. There is an ever increasing demand for top notch superiority. 



•[[Tomatoes that are carefully graded and packed in baskets will bring their price. Adopt some 

 distinctive method of packing, some inexpensive but identifying feature, so your "Perfection Brand" 

 will become known. As a suggestion, stain your baskets green, a 10 cent package of Diamond 

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<j[Get a couple of hotels to contract with you — they will be only too glad to do it if they can count 

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<]JWe do not want you to think that you will get spectacularly rich in this business in a short 

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 have a pleasurable, health giving business with time to live a little as you go along. But build 

 well — be prepared to spend money to make money. 



(flOur Sectional Iron Frame Houses are so constructed that all possible wood is eliminated, and 

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