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MAGAZINE 



February, 1910 



How About A Lean-to Greenhouse? 



Haven't you a building or wall of some sort, 

 against which you can put a lean-to green- 

 house? It makes an inexpensive way to build. 



This house is right in the heart of the 

 Adirondack mountains, and all winter long it 

 was just like a June day inside. Flowers and 

 vegetables a plenty, besides hundreds of grow- 

 ing plants, all ready for spring setting out in 

 the flower beds, window and porch boxes. 



If you knew, say, half the pleasures and ad- 

 vantages of having a greenhouse, you would 



not hesitate a minute in buying one, — that is, 

 provided we could show you that the U-Bar 

 house overcomes all the objections that other 

 greenhouses have, and grows more and better 

 flowers besides. 



Several pages in our new catalog are devoted 

 — just to lean-to greenhouses — not simply 

 illustrations, but the facts you want to know. 

 Of course, there are numerous other houses 

 shown too. You may like some one of them 

 even better. Send for the Catalog. 



U-BAR GREENHOUSES 



PIERS ON 



DESIGNERS and BUILDERS 



U-BAR CO. 



I MADISON AVE„NEW YORK 



GARDENERS AND TRUCKERS 



We invite you to send at once for our 191 o Catalogue, and Special Price List for 

 Market Gardeners. It's FREE. Yours for the asking. Write a postal today. 

 Listed are all the latest novelties, also the favorites and standards. 



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We aim to carry only the very highest grades in every line. Our many years' 

 ^Y', experience enables us to select only the best. Don't hesitate to send us your 

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J. F. NOLL & CO., 103 Mulberry Street, NEWARK, N. J. 



HE GARDEN STUDIO, at 



647 Boylston St., Boston, 

 Mass., offers a unique oppor- 

 tunity for the selection of gar- 

 den accessories in artificial stone, forlarge 

 estates, formal gardens or small home 

 gardens. On exhibition and for sale 

 are sun dials, benches, urns, columns, 

 gazing globes, tables, balustrades and 

 fountains. Particular attention is given 

 to the ornamentation of city yard gardens. 



We shall be glad to send a book of prices and 

 illustrations of the garden accessories, which 

 will enable you to order by mail. 

 The firm desires also to announce that it 

 makes and has made for years a specialty of 

 fine interior decoration for town and country 

 houses, libraries, churches and theatres. 



L. HABERSTROH & SON 



647 Boylston Street BOSTON, MASS. 



Try Kerosene Engine 



30 Pays Free 



Gasoline Prices Rising 



You can't run a farm engine profitably on gasoline much longer. 

 Price of gasoline going sky high. Oil Companies have sounded the 

 warning. Kerosene is the future fuel and is now 6c to 10c a 

 gallon cheaper than gasoline. The Amazing " Detroit " is 

 the only eneine tliat uses common lamp Kerosene (coal oil) 

 perfectly. Runs on gasoline, too, better 

 than any other. Basic patent. Only 3 

 moving parts. Comes complete ready to 

 run. We will send a "Detroit" on free 

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 of farm machinery, pumps, saw rigs, 

 separators, churns, feed grinders, wash- 

 nig machines. Silo fillers and electric 

 lights. Money back and freight paid 

 'ioth ways if it does not meet every claim 

 ■hat we have made for it. Don't buy 

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Detroit Engine Works, 229 Bellevne Ave., Detroit, Mich. 



The Precious Hart's Tongue 



NEW to me was the hart's tongue fern (Scolopen- 

 drium vulgare), which every English child 

 knows and loves for the breadth and brilliancy of 

 its thick, leathery, undivided leaf. The picture 

 on page 14 is a fair portrait, but fails to show its 

 charming environment. The hart's tongue grows 

 on roadside rocks and walls, on shady banks and 

 in ravines and looks like a stranger from the tropics. 

 It generally grows about a foot high, with leaves 

 twelve inches long and one and a half to two inches 

 wide. Few people know the extraordinary num- 

 ber of fantastic forms to which the hart's tongue 

 has given rise in cultivation. A nursery firm at 

 Sale, near Manchester, which issues the largest fern 

 catalogue in the world (122 pages), offers sixty-two 

 varieties of the hart's tongue, varying in height 

 from six inches to two feet and cut and crested in 

 many odd forms. But the original wild type is, of 

 course, the most precious for the bog garden. 



If there is anything in England that looks impos- 

 sible to grow in America it is this same hart's tongue 

 fern. Imagine, therefore, my astonishment on 

 learning that it actually grows wild in the United 

 States, and thrives as far north as Vermont! In 

 this country it is a very rare plant, growing only 

 on limestone rocks. Some of our botanists call 

 it Phyllitis Scolopendrium. Two American nursery- 

 men now offer the hart's tongue and I doubt not 

 their stock has been propagated in the nursery. It 

 would be scandalous to offer collected stock of so 

 rare and precious a plant. 



New York. W. M. 



AND 





HOfTBED^ 



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A Cellar Window Frame 



IF you have a cellar window with a southern 

 exposure you can have, at very slight expense, 

 a sort of compromise between a hotbed and a cold- 

 frame which can be used very effectively in starting 

 your early seedlings. The frame shown in the 

 accompanying picture (with the top propped open) 

 is 34 inches wide, 16 inches high, and 30 inches 

 deep. It is made of J-inch poplar, with f-inch 

 square strips nailed around the inside of the frames 

 for the glass to rest against, the glass being held in 

 place with putty, though other strips would do as 

 well and, if put on with screws, facilitate the renewal 

 of the glass in case it is broken. The frame is made 

 so that it can be slipped into the window casing 

 about 4 inches, fits snugly, and is hooked from the 

 inside. The top, which is hinged at the outer edge 

 so that it may be raised for ventilation, is also fas- 

 tened inside with a hook for safety at night. When 

 you are through using the frame, all that is neces- 

 sary is to unhook it and remove it to some place 

 where it may be stored for the summer. 



When the frame is put in place the window sash is 

 removed, and the result is really an extension of 

 the cellar (with about the cellar's temperature most 

 of the time). By standing on a bench of convenient 

 height you can care for your plants from within the 

 cellar in all kinds of weather without exposure. 

 The bottom of the frame should fit squarely on the 

 ground, and it is well to bank it up a little on the 

 outside. It is also a good plan to cover the bottom 

 with sand as you would a greenhouse bench. At 

 night, unless there is a cold wind blowing, the tem- 

 perature in the frame will seldom fall much below 

 that of the cellar. If a hood of old carpet is made 

 to fit snugly over the frame the temperature can 

 generally be held up to the cellar temperature. 

 Covered in this way, the lowest temperature shown 

 by the frame in the picture, last winter, was 38 



