April, 1907 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



133 



General greenhouse and potting room, erected in 1904 



1906 brought the rose house 



A GREENHOUSE PROPOSITION 



FOR THE MAN WITH LIMITED MEANS 



THERE are lots of just such people as you who 

 want a greenhouse and want it badly, but the 

 length of their purse holds them up. Now we 

 find that because tomatoes, lettuce, roses, carnations, and 

 so on, can be grown successfully side by side in the outdoor 

 garden, without any apparent regulation of temperatures by 

 Dame Nature, that most people think the same thing can 

 be done in the "glass-enclosed garden." It's not so; there 

 are certain fixed temperature requirements that cannot be 

 ignored. The whole truth of the matter is, pretty much 

 everybody wants to start right off growing all the things 

 there are, and think that if they have a single compartment 

 house that their entire dream will henceforth be a reality. 

 But when the greenhouse concerns give them an estimate 

 on such a house as their dream demands, the price some- 

 times staggers them. To forestall just such experiences as 

 this, we want to tell you what one of our customers did. 

 To grow all he at first wanted would have needed a palm 

 house and at least two additional compartments, so we sug- 

 gested that he cut his list down to plants easily grown in a 



temperature of from 6o to 65 degrees. (You would be sur- 

 prised to know how many such flowers and vegetables there 

 are.) Then we built a 35-foot house, 18 feet wide, with 

 three benches, to which he added a work room. This was 

 in 1904. The following year the palm house was added, 

 and in 1906 another single compartment. He now has a 

 decidedly attractive, nicely balanced scheme, in which his 

 dream has at last become a delightful reality. In adding a 

 house this way each year, the expenditure was compara- 

 tively small, and he has a splendid basis for a still more 

 extensive range, one that can be easily worked and eco- 

 nomically maintained. 



Can't you write us, stating exactly what your dream is, 

 so we can talk it over with you accordingly? If you have 

 $1,500 to put into it the first year, say so. We'll see that 

 you get fifteen hundred's worth. 



LORD & BURNHAM CO., GREENHOUSE DE- 

 SIGNERS AND MANUFACTURERS, 1133 BROAD- 

 WAY, CORNER 26TH STREET, NEW YORK. 

 q BOSTON BRANCH, 819 TREMONT BUILDING. 



This charming outlook is from the 

 living room windows 



Elaborate potting rooms run up expense, but certainly 

 add attractiveness 



How compact and decidedly artistic as it snuggles 

 up to the garden wall 



