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Plants—Pleasure—Profits 
Why shouldn’t YOU enjoy the benefit of a 
greenhouse ? The cost is noflonger prohibitive. 
The Callahan Duo-Glazed Sectional Green- 
houses offer to the garden lover unsurpassed 
facilities for gratifying his or her taste ata 
minimum initial cost. 
These houses are an investment. They give 
you a healthful recreation, flowers the year 
round, or will supply your table with luscious 
vegetables fresh from the soil. 
And they will grace any estate. Built with 
double layer glass sash, of selected Louisiana 
Red Cypress, of fine finish and strong construc- 
tion, they are thoroughiy practical and beauti- 
ful in their very simplicity,and they are easily 
and economically erected. 
Prices? Isn’t the house shown above a beauty ? 
Yet it costs you but $234.00—an 11 ft. x 12 ft. 
sunken path model but $138.00. A cast iron 
heater adds but $26.75. 
Duo Glazed Sash 
MAKE HOTBED GARDENING 
Duo-GlazedSash need no 
blankets or night coverings be- 
cause the dead air space 
makes them frost-proof 
—ensures results and 
easy work. Blooming 
flowers and matured 
vegetables one to 
two months sooner 
by this method of 
culture. 
We have a catalog for you. May we send it ? 
Callahan Duo-Glazed Sash Company 
1318 Wyandot Street DAYTON, OHIO 
Catalog— 
Ellwanger 
Barry — 
TREES-SHRUBS-PLANTS-ROSES 
The most complete nursery stock in America—ornamen- 
tal and fruit bearing. Every specimen well rooted, 
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This Planting Guide Free 
Not only a catalog but a useful 
handbook, with valuable cultural 
directions, indispensable to planters. 
Sent postal today. 
ELLWANGER & BARRY 
Mt. Hope Nurseries, Box 208, Rochester, N.Y. 
THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
Starting Seeds Indoors 
I WAS exceedingly interested in the article, 
“Hurry Ups for the Gardener Without a 
Greenhouse,” in the January GarDEN Magca- 
ZINE, and I wondered if the plan which I have 
used for several years for starting my plants, 
would not be a good addition to that story, and 
be of some interest to other amateurs. 
You know that the amateur who wants early 
plants is advised to start the seed in boxes in 
the windows. This is a very mussy under- 
taking at best. There are usually too few 
south windows so that the boxes must be car- 
ried from one window to another in order that 
the little plants may haye enough sunshine. 
If they are left a little too long in one position 
they get twisted out of shape, and as the at- 
mosphere of the house is too dry they are 
usually quite unsatisfactory. The moving and 
watering of the plants always makes more or 
less litter in the house, and it was to avoid 
these troubles that I first tried out the follow- 
ing plan. 
The only requirements are a south cellar 
window and a furnace in the cellar. Build a 
frame of boards, just as you would for a hot- 
frame, but leave off the back. Line the frame 
with heavy cardboard (cardboard boxes such 
as cereals come packed in, which can be ob- 
tained from any grocer) to keep it as warm as 
possible. Put the frame around a south cellar 
window, snug and tight against the foundation, 
cover it with a storm sash, bank the frame on 
the outside with dirt, and fill all the cracks 
between the frame and the foundation wall 
with putty to make it as tight as possible. 
Put some old boards in the bottom of the frame 
to keep the seed boxes off the cold ground, take 
out the cellar window, and the conservatory is 
ready to receive your plants. Plant the seeds 
in small boxes, about 6 by 15 inches, as they are 
more easily handled, and will fit better in the 
frame. Have a long spout put on the sprink- 
ling pot so that you can reach all the boxes 
without taking them out of the frame, for all 
watering must be done through the cellar 
window. 
You will find that the cellar warmth will be 
sufficient to Bee the plants warm at night, and 
during the middle of the day, when the sun is 
hot, the window being open will provide plenty 
of ventilation, so you will have to give your 
little plants very little attention aside from 
water. After you have filled the seed boxes, 
cover them with a piece of glass and put them 
on top of the hot water pipes by the furnace. 
Germination will often occur in 36 to 40 hours. 
Do not leave them there too long, but take the 
boxes to the window just as soon as the seed- 
lings show above the soil. 
In this small space you can care for upward 
of 1,000 plants, which is certainly a very real 
help when, later in the spring, every sort of 
garden work seems to pile up all at once, and 
the amateur hardly knows where to begin, or 
what to do. I plant my seeds about the middle 
of March, and with the help of this little frame 
have been able to have as good plants, and as 
early plants, as any of our florists, and many 
more of them than J would have had, had I been 
obliged to buy them from a plantsman. They 
come out of the frame at “planting out” time 
as strong and sturdy as one could wish, every 
plant perfectly straight and perfectly able to 
withstand the shock of transplanting. 
Webster City, Iowa. Witt A. CRANDALL. 
Roses Need Lime 
Ree cannot be successfully grown in a 
sour soil. Commercial rose-growers have 
long recognized this fact, it being the practice 
of many to sprinkle the bed in which the roses 
are growing with air-slacked lime when the 
plants begin to have a sickly appearance. 
The New Jersey Agricultural Experiment 
Station reports an experiment carried on to 
prove the necessity of lime for Roses. <A bench 
was divided up into compartments containing 
fifteen square feet. The soil in all was alike 
and received the same amount of fertilizer—a 
chemical fertilizer made up of acid phosphate, 
sulphate of potash and concontnstedl tankage. 
An equal number of plants were given no lime, 
lime at the rate of 270 grams per plot, and lime 
at the rate of 810 grams per plot. The plants 
Marcu, 1916 
; DOUGLAS 
% SPRUCE 
3 ft. to 2O ft. 
The universal favorite because of 
its rapid growth, the unusual sym- 
metry of its horizontal branches 
and the rich beauty of the luxu- 
tiant foliage, holding its decora- 
tive coloring from one year’s end 
, toanother. Itis always strikingly 
y handsome and harmonizes splen- 
didly with other plantings. Surely, 
“The Tree for the Million.” The 
owner of one of Westchester County’s finest es- 
tates says, “The Douglas Spruce is one of the 
two varieties of conifers I like best.” 
Plant Now for Immediate Effect 
Choice stock up to 25 ft. high. Evyergreens in 70 varieties. 
Maples, Lindens, Dogwood and other flowering trees in all 
the leading sorts. Hardy Perennials, Vines and Shrubs. 
Choice Fruit Trees in Bearing Size will save you two 
to four years over ordinary sizes. 
Irish Roses in great variety including Everblooming, 
Choice Climbing in 2, 3 and 4 year sizes, and Tree Roses on 
heavy Rugosa Stock. 
Free catalogue, beautifully illus- 
trated, is “chock full” of informa- 
tion. Send for your copy to-day. 
ROSEDALE NURSERIES 
S. G. Harris, Box A, Tarrytown, N.Y. 
PYNSEE ROSES 
5) 
Our roses are strongest and best. Always grown 
on their own roots. Sixty-five years of 
“knowing how’ behind each plant; 
that fact is your guarantee of satis- 
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our guide explains. No matter 
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on getting D & C roses in perfect 
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Our New “Guide to 
Rose Culture”’ for 1916—Free 
This is more than a catalog—it is the boiled-down, 
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in America, and the most practical work on rose culture 
ever published. Profusely illustrated in natural colors 
and describes over 1000 varieties of roses and other flowers 
and tells how to grow them. Write to-day before issue 
isall gone. Leaders im rose culture since 1850. 70 
Lreenhouses. 
The DINGEE & CONARD CO., Box 337, West Grove, Pa. 
SCHOOL OF HORTICULTURE FOR WOMEN 
Ambler, Pennsylvania (18 Miles from Philadelphia) 
Spring Term of regular two year course 
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Gardening and elementary Landscape 
Gardening. The demand for trained 
women to fill positions, along horticul- 
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Label Your Roses and Plants 
Do Not Forget Their Names 
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