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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



October, 1910 



Another U-Bar Sunshine Shop 



It is 25 feet wide and 41 feet long. Now, 25 

 feet may at first seem rather wide for a small house, 

 but you secure four good-sized benches, giving you a 

 goodly amount of room, and you will soon find use 

 for every inch of it — and will want more. 



The proportions of the house are well v^rorked 

 out, making an exceedingly attractive little layout. 

 The half-octagon shape, "Old Mission" treatment of 

 the workroom is most interesting, and with its red- 

 tiled roof forms a pleasing contrast between the 

 exceeding lightness and grace of the greenhouse lines. 



The greenhouse is the U-Bar construction — a 



construction that has an entire steel frame, and 

 that is painted on the inside with a glistening coat 

 of aluminum. 



Because of their extreme lightness and sunniness, 

 these U-Bar greenhouses were long ago "dubbed" 

 Sunshine Shops — and it is a good dub. 



We are the only U-Bar greenhouse builders 

 — the patent is ours. 



Send for our new catalog, on page 23 of 

 which is shown this house, along with a plsm, 

 another view of the workroom, and a ihost 

 readable description. 



U-BAR GREENHOUSES 



PIERSON 



DESIGNERS AND BUILDERS 



U-BAR CO. 



1 MADISON AVE,NEW YORK. 



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Building to Let 



Our present business building in 

 New York, at 133-137 East i6th 

 St., near Irving Place, can be 

 leased for a long term of years at 

 a ^'ery reasonable rental. It has 

 40,000 square feet of space, is well 

 lighted, heated and equipped. Suit- 

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Flowers for a Ten-acre Lot 



SOME day, when I am very, very rich, I am 

 going to buy three square ten-acre lots. 

 Exactly in the middle of one I shall plant giant 

 knotweed. Similarly bee-balm will go into the 

 second, and crown vetch into the third. Then I 

 shall put a million-dollar bill into one pocket of 

 my trousers and the same into another, and make 

 a bet with myself as to which of the three plants 

 gets to the edge of its lot first. I think the giant 

 knotweed will win. 



Beware the giant knotweed (Polygonum cus- 

 pidatum); for it soareth like a giraffe and ever 

 goes abroad seeking what good garden space it may 

 devour. Three years ago I brought home from 

 Staten Island a couple of little plants, each con- 

 sisting of a single short stalk eighteen inches or 

 so high, and thought how nice it would be when I 

 had a clump like the parent one. I have it all 

 right — two of them. Both plants did so well 

 at once that I gave one away; but you might as 

 well try to lose a cat in your neighbor's dooryard, 

 for there the plant was again in no time. I gave 

 it away some more — two or three times. The 

 next year it was so big that I could not give it all 

 to any one person. Nevertheless, I kept on giving. 

 The more I give the more I have, and, now that 

 the list of friends who are shy of giant knotweed 

 is dwindling down to nothing, I am wondering how 

 I am going to settle the question as to whether it 

 and its still more vigorous brother are to own my 

 garden or I. Extermination is easy enough to 

 talk about. It reminds me, however, of the answer 

 given to those who would deport the Negro race 

 bodily to Africa; there are not enough ships 

 available to carry away the babies as fast as they 

 are born, let alone the adults. So take my advice 

 and beware the giant knotweed in the ordinary 

 border. It is a wonderful grower — I have seen 

 it go to the top of a bay-window in a season — and 

 there is no questioning the beauty of its foliage and 

 the myriads of tiny white flowers that droop from 

 the axils of the leaves in August; but no man 

 knoweth how far it will wander underground until 

 one day he sees his lawn or another border invaded 

 by the reddish shoots that spring up with all the 

 suddenness of asparagus. The best use for it is 

 as a summer screen — it dies to the ground in 

 winter — or for a pseudo-shrubbery effect by the 

 waterside or in the more remote parts of large 

 estates. Inside the garden gate it easily develops 

 into a worse nuisance than even the sheep sorrel. 



Bee-balm (Monarda didyma) gives the border 

 such a gorgeous red in the summer that it would 

 be a pity to drive it out altogether because of its 

 bad habits. Few hardy flowers, however, require 

 more careful watching. This year's little plant 

 becomes next year a clump with a clotted mass of 

 roots and suckers that is well calculated to choke 

 to death any neighbor with a more delicate con- 

 stitution. If it is too much trouble to restrain its 

 deadly depredations, better move it out of the 

 mixed border and either let it have one by itself 

 — which may be along a fence line or next to a 

 building — or give it a place where it can be allowed 

 lots of room and its own way of developing a 

 naturalistic effect. For actual naturalizing it 

 is, of course, excellent, being a native plant. Bee- 

 balm is frequently thrown away for lack of garden 

 room when it might just as well have been used 

 to brighten some waste place. 



Of crown vetch (Coronilla varia) J. Wilkinson 



