If you a lanning to build the Readers’ 
ies Lie re give helpful suggestions T H E G A R D E N M A G A Z I N E 
A Greenhouse 
For Comparatively Little Money 
Here is certainly an attractive little greenhouse, 25 feet long and 10 feet 
wide, made with our Sectional Iron Frame Construction. 
You will be surprised to know how comparatively little money the materials 
for the superstructure of this house cost. 
These materials consist of the cast iron sills to cap the masonry walls, and 
to which the rafters are bolted; cast iron gutters, the iron rafters, bracings and 
fittings—the wooden capping, roof bars, ridge, ventilating sash, door and orna- 
mental entrance hood, ventilating machinery—glass, paint, putty and glazing nails 
—all the necessary hardware, bolts, screws, etc. 1 
Only one gable is necessary when attaching the house to an existing building 
or to any potting room which you may erect. The matter of benches and heat- 
ing plant vary so, according to the uses to which you may wish to put the house, 
that it is more satisfactory to consider these apart from the rest. 
Being the Sectional Iron Frame, its erection involves the least possible trou- 
ble and expense, because each part is accurately cut, fitted and given a prime 
coat before being shipped. Its erection simply means the assembling of the 
parts, bolting or screwing them together and putting the glass in place. Your local 
mechanic with the assistance of the plans we furnish, is perfectly competent to do it. 
We have just printed a circular that goes pretty thoroughly into all the par- 
ticulars of this house, Send for it. 
LORD & BURNHAM COMPANY 
MAIN SALES OFFICE: 1133 BROADWAY, NEW YORK 
BRANCHES:—BOSTON AND PHILADELPHIA 
APRIL, 1908 
Succession of Crops for a 
School Garden 
(Pee question of how to raise more than 
one crop on any given section of a 
school garden is an interesting one. A 
rotation of crops that would be suitable 
for the farmer would not answer at all in 
a garden cultivated chiefly for its educational 
value. The matter of climate must also 
be considered as well as the possibility of 
keeping up the garden during vacation. 
Perhaps the experience gained at the Whittier 
School garden, at Hampton Institute in 
Virginia, may be suggestive. 
Here the climate is favorable for the matur- 
ing of as many crops as there may be time 
Grow only those crops that seem to give an abun- 
dant return for the labor 
to plant; the garden is cultivated throughout 
the five months’ vacation; and care is taken 
to select crops that will produce the largest 
return during the summer. On this alone 
depends the interest of the volunteers who 
come week after week to work in the garden. 
If they succeed in gathering flowers and 
vegetables in sufficient quantities to seem 
a fair return for their labor, they will be 
interested to continue it. 
The following table will show the succes- 
sion of crops in the Whittier garden: 
Fall Spring Summer 
Spinach Radishes Kale Tomatoes 
Kale Cabbage Onions Cabbage 
Onions Lettuce Tomatoes Turnips 
Radishes \ Beans Beets Carrots 
Lettuce (in Spinach Flowers 
coldframes) 
The planting is begun when school opens 
in October. Radishes are gathered before 
frost; they are planted again in the spring, 
and as they mature in from four to six weeks, 
the number of crops is only limited by the 
space in the garden and the number of weeks 
before frost comes again. Snap-beans are 
planted every three weeks and furnish un- 
failing crops for vacation. Two crops of 
lettuce are raised (when coldframes are 
used in the fall) and two of cabbage, spinach, 
kale, onions, and tomatoes. Cabbage, let- 
tuce, tomatoes, and all flowers are started 
in flats indoors for spring planting. The 
cabbage and lettuce are transplanted first; 
then radishes are sown, then turnips and 
beets. These are followed by the beans, 
the tomatoes, and the flowers. Tomatoes 
and cabbages are planted a second time in 
May or June before school closes. 
Virginia. J. E. Davis. 
