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Write to the Readers’ Service for 
suggestions as to garden furniture 
THE “GARDEN MAGAZINE 
OcTosBerR, 1908 
TWO DISTINCT PHASES 
OF 
THE GREENHOUSE QUESTION 
For Profit 
RE you tired of the harassing, 
A nerve racking business life of 
the city—tired of its grind, 
weary of catching trains every morning 
and night? Have you been casting 
about (on the quiet) for an opening 
that would take you out of the city 
and be an interesting, healthy kind of 
a bread and butter getter? 
Had it occurred to you to look into 
farming under glass — having a green- 
house? 
It is worth thinking about. It is 
not a project by which you will get 
rich quick, but there is undoubtedly 
a splendid living in it. The way 
greenhouse men increase their houses 
each year shows they are making 
money and believe in reiuvesting it in 
more greenhouses. Just for instance, 
here is a case of one of our customers 
who started ten years ago with one of 
our Sectional Iron Frame houses 300 
feet long.and 30 wide, and now he 
has five acres under glass —think of 
it—five acres! Carnations, roses and 
asparagus ferns have done it. 
As a suggestion let us give you the 
names of some of these “glass far- 
mers”? and then go and visit them. 
We will do all we can in getting you 
started right, and when you are ready 
to build can furnish you a house con- 
structed so that you can obtain the 
highest possible growing results and 
be freest from repair expense. 
As a starter send for information 
about our special house for beginners. 
For Pleasure 
(): perhaps the profit side is not 
of interest to you, but you want 
a garden enclosed in glass for 
the pleasure of it. A place where you 
can grow either the old fashioned 
flowers, roses and carnations, or veg- 
etables in abundarce, no matter how 
low the mercury goes? 
You want an attractive, finely 
built greenhouse that is heated right, 
ventilated right, and arranged and 
benched for the best results at least 
cost of running? ‘Then our Sectional 
Iron Frame greenhouse is the one. 
We have a special house 1o feet 
wide and 25 long that has appealed 
to a good many GARDEN MaGaZINE 
readers. It is a house for compara- 
tively little money too. Just the 
things you want to know about this 
house are told in circular No. 49, 
which we will gladly send you. 
If, however, you have in mind a 
larger house, then our new 72 page 
book, “Greenhouses as We Build 
Them,” is what you had better send 
for. We are entering orders every 
day for erecting houses during the 
fall and can put yours through with 
least possible delay. 
Lord & Burnham Co. 
Main Sales Office 
1133 Broadway New York 
BOSTON 
819 Tremont Bldg. 
PHILADELPHIA 
1215 Filbert St. 
GARDEN AND FarM NeEws 
Have youa piece of wet ground that you 
are taxed for which produces nothing? Why 
not look into basket willow culture? Ask 
the Forest Service, United States Department 
of Agriculture, Washington, D. C., for 
Bulletin No. 46. 
77] 
“Clean-up Day” is the latest good idea 
contributed by the civic improvers. Detroit 
set apart April 24th for the purpose, and gave 
the children half a day to go home and fix 
up the back yard. The Department of 
Public Works promised to attend to the 
alleys. 
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The smaller the chestnut the sweeter the - 
meat. The sweetest of all is the chinkapin, 
which can be grown in an ordinary shrub- 
bery border in the north. The northern- 
most limit of this species, in the wild, is 
York, Pa., but in cultivation it is hardy on 
Long Island and probably farther north. 
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We wish that every farmer in the land 
might have a free copy of “Plant Breeding 
for Farmers” by Professor H. J. Webber. 
If farmers would only stop gaping at news- 
paper “rot” about Burbank and do the few, 
simple, practical things here explained, 
their profits on corn, wheat, and potatoes 
would steadily increase. 
v-) 
Portland, Oregon, has determined to be 
known as the “rose city.” Roses bloom 
there the year round. Already miles of 
residence streets have grass between walk 
and curb. On Washington’s Birthday this 
year, the school children set out 5,000 rose 
bushes “under a clear sky and June-like 
sun.” Why should not every city on the 
Pacific Coast do something of the sort ? 
y-) 
The problem of fertilizing land, destroying 
weeds and weed seed and ridding the ground 
of cutworms, etc., has recently been solved 
by an enterprising grower who covered his 
ground with about six inches of straw to 
which he set fire immediately before plowing. 
By turning under these ashes, he found he 
was able to accomplish the three operations 
at one time, and the plants grown on the land 
did not require hoeing until they had attained 
a good size. 
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“The evidence that many, if not most, 
characteristics of poultry have arisen suddenly 
without having been sought and laboriously 
built up by man, is convincing and there 
can hardly be any escape from the con- 
clusion that here evolution has been largely, 
though not exclusively, by mutation.” This 
is the conclusion reached by Professor C. B. 
Davenport, director of the Station for 
Experimental Evolution at Cold Spring 
Harbor, N. Y., in an elaborate work entitled 
“Inheritance in Poultry,” and published by 
the Carnegie Institution. In other words, 
the old idea that ‘Nature does not make a 
leap” has exceptions after all, and the 
mutation theory will help us make new 
species and varieties of animals and plants 
quicker than in the past. 
