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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



Feb ru art , 190 9 



A Greenhouse Suggestion 

 That May Help You 



You may have just the sunny spot, and sufficient money for 

 your U-Bar greenhouse, but you don't feel like spending the 

 few hundred additional dollars for a work room. But why 

 need you ? This house you see has no work room, and still 

 how attractive and complete it is. 



It is heated from a boiler placed in the cellar of a nearby 

 building, so a work room is not really necessary. Perhaps a 

 similar arrangement would be practical in your case. 



The extreme lightness of the U-Bar construction makes an 

 unequalled growing house, while the all galvanized U-Bar steel 

 frame assures a greenhouse of greatest durability — but send for 

 our catalog, it tells the complete U-Bar story. 



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Do You Grow Your Own 

 Potatoes? 



OUR experience has been that it pays 

 to raise potatoes in the small home 

 garden; not only can fresh potatoes be 

 had for each meal, but we have also found 

 it more economical. One year 100 hills, 

 planted in our garden which is 25 x 50 feet, 

 yielded about two bushels of potatoes, and 

 as the very lowest market price during the 

 entire summer was seventy-five cents a 

 bushel, we estimated that our crop was 

 worth two dollars. 



We use early Ohio, as it is not only a 

 good eating variety but seems well adapted 

 to our sandy soil. We plant the first tubers 

 in a protected part of the garden as early 

 as it is possible to work the ground, running 

 the risk of late frosts. One year the frost 

 was late in leaving the ground and planting 

 could not be done until the middle of April, 

 but, as The Garden Magazine for March, 

 1906 (page 75), recommended planting 

 potatoes that had already sprouted, we 

 made up for the loss of time by planting ours 

 with 2-inch sprouts. The plants grew 

 rapidly, the first potatoes being ready for 

 use the middle of June, with tubers two 

 inches in diameter. The markets were 

 then asking $1.25 a bushel for new potatoes, 

 and they were much smaller than ours. 



We never dig the potatoes until we want 

 to use them, for potatoes wilt as quickly and 

 lose as much of their quality as any other 

 vegetable that has been out of the ground 

 for any length of time. A freshly dug 

 potato cooks quickly and is very mealy. 



After the potatoes are out of the way I 

 plant celery on the same ground, as the 

 cultivation and digging necessary for pota- 

 toes make the soil mellow and easily 

 worked. 



Minnesota. Marie I. DeGraff. 



Hardy Plants for Western 

 Nebraska 





TN THE September, 1908, number of 

 A The Garden Magazine, Professor 

 S. W. Fletcher gave a list of trees, shrubs 

 and vines suitable for planting in Northern 



