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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



May, 19 10 



Some Greenhouse Facts 



You Ought To Know 



THE more light you have in your green- 

 house, the better your plants will grow.and 

 the more blooms you will get. That's easy 

 enough to see. To secure the greatest amount 

 of light, your house must be made the lightest 

 possible, safety considered. Also easy to see. 



These things admitted, then the first thing 

 for you to do, is make sure of a greenhouse 

 construction that is not only the lightest but 

 the most enduring. 



Perhaps you don't know that the alternate 

 moisture and dryness that exists in a greenhouse 

 plays the very hob with the construction if not 

 carefully planned to insure its endurance. 



Then there is glass breakage, another point 

 not only of annoyance but expense. 



The heating must also be considered, and as 

 it is so radically different from any othermethod 

 used to heat any other kind of building, it too 

 must be handled just right or your coal bill will 

 run away up, or your house be too cold inside, 

 when it's cold outside. 



The truth is, if you want a greenhouse — a 



successful, satisfactory, pleasure giving green- 

 house — the only way to be sure of getting it, 

 is to go to greenhouse builders of long 

 experience and let them build, ventilate and 

 heat it. Then you will get what you want. 



After building greenhouses for considerably 

 over half a century, we have come to the con- 

 clusion that our Sectional Iron Frame Construc- 

 tion makes the ideal house. The frame is entirely 

 of iron, there is no more glass breakage than 

 in your residence; the repairs are practically 

 nil — a coat of paint every two years or so, and 

 that's about all there is to it. By all odds 

 it is the house for you to buy. 



As for the size, design and plan of it, if 

 you could let us know something about what 

 you have in mind, we will either send you a 

 catalog or some photographs that will help 

 you in making a selection. 



If you are in dead earnest, it will pay you to 

 have one of our representatives come and talk it 

 all over with you. But don't keep putting it off, 

 for now is a particularly good time to build. 



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Whether you plant a hill, a row or an acre, whether you do it your- 

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Get a lawn weeder and keep the weeds pulled 

 out of the lawns. 



Make provisions now for later spraying so as to 

 keep down all insects. See The Garden Maga- 

 zine for May, 1909. 



This is one of the busiest months with the farmers. 

 Cotton and corn will now require frequent cultiva- 

 tion. 



Harvest oats, wheat and rye the last of the month. 

 Sow seed of all fodder plants now, such as millet, 

 sorghum cane and Kaffir corn. 



Sow soja and velvet beans for hay; plant chufas 

 and peanuts now for hog food. 



During the latter part of the month sow seed of 



SJm£MrM 



Tie up the tomato vines with strips of cloth so 

 not to bruise the stems 



sugar beets for stock food in the fall. Plant them 

 in rich soil for good results. 



Fruits will begin to ripen during the month and 

 provision should now be made for canning those not 

 used. 



Very early in the month sow seed of onions for 

 onion sets. 



Place pine leaves or oat straw around the egg 

 plants to hold the moisture in the soil and keep the 

 fruits from getting sandy. 



Georgia. Thomas J. Steed. 



Improving the Potato 



THE Colorado Station is undertaking, with very 

 liberal appropriations therefore, some for- 

 ward steps in potato breeding. They can give 

 potatoes their natural conditions in the higher 

 mountains in the State, and are undertaking to 

 develop, by centgener methods, improved strains 

 of standard American varieties of potatoes; also, 

 by other means, to secure new varieties which may 

 be better than those we have. One of the necessary 

 steps to this needed public service is a full history, 

 so far as can be obtained, of the origin of present 

 varieties. This information is necessary in order 

 to know the inheritance that lies behind any par- 

 ticular strain of potatoes. 



It has never been proven that hill selection by 

 centgener methods will preserve our varieties of 

 potatoes. On the other hand, it has never been 

 proven that potatoes need run out if so handled. 

 The station would be very glad to get into com- 

 munication with potato growers who know the 

 history of present varieties — men who have been 

 interested in potatoes all of their lives and can, 

 from memory, tell what they know about old 

 varieties of potatoes. It is hoped that eventually 

 these histories may be published, possibly with 

 cuts or even with colored photographs. All cor- 

 respondence should be addressed to C. L. Fitch, 

 Fort Collins, Col., and should state with what 

 varieties the correspondent is familiar. 



