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What is a fair rental fora given 
property? Ask the Readers’ Service 
York. 
house grows. 
them so light. Send for it. 
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Special offer. Tointroduce our FREE Holiday 
Catalog of Indian and Mexican Handicraft, we will 
send this genuine hand-woven Indian Basket, pre- 
paid anywhere for 25c. Strong, useful, ornamental, 
in pretty colors; 8 in. high. Good for work basket, 
flower pots, etc. Retails for $1.00. 5sentto thesame 
address for $r.00 and names and addresses of five 
interested friends. 
THE FRANCIS E. LESTER COMPANY 
Dept. J 12 Mesilla Park, New Mexico 
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ADDRESS 
Sunlight Double-Glass Sash Company 
506 Floyd Street LOUISVILLE, KY. 
ABOUT THIS PARTICULAR 
GREENHOUSE 
It is located right in the heart of the Ramapo Mountains, some 35 miles from New 
It is used as an absolutely utilitarian proposition, for growing bedding plants 
and raising out-of-season vegetables—and it is surprising what a quantity this 50 foot 
For so utilitarian a purpose you might think any ordinary house would 
do, but there is just the point we want to make—it will do, of course, but your returns 
will be less and cost of maintenance decidedly higher. 
The more light the better the plants, and the U-Bar is the lightest house built. 
only lightest, but especially free from repairs. 
U-BAR GREENHOUSES 
Not 
The catalog tells why we can make 
U-BAR CO. 
1 MADISON AVE..NEW YORK. 
Here is an out and out practical 
house with no extras for effects. 
A light enduring house admirably 
adapted to the especial needs of 
Garden Magazine readers. Send 
for booklet explaining about it. 
Hitchings & Company 
1170 Broadway New York 
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ORCHIDS 
Largest importers and growers of 
OrcuHips in the United States 
LAGER & HURRELL 
Orchid Growers and Importers SUMMIT, N. J. 
The double layer of glass 
does it 
Lets in the light always. 
Never has to be covered or uncovered; no 
boards or mats needed. 
Retains the heat, excludes the cold. 
Saves three-fourths of the labor and expense 
and makes stronger and earlier plants than 
single glass sash. 
Ask for catalog “G.” 
Jt tells all about it. 
THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
DECEMBER, 1908 
A depression at the base of this oak was completely 
hidden by elder, sumac and black locust 
at their bases. Still others have nasturtiums, 
and one sickly tree appears as though it 
were being smothered to death by a huge 
mass of cannas. ‘There are no depressions 
about these trees which demand screening, 
the trees are also younger and the bark 
is not sufficiently rough to need the softening 
effects given by vegetation. 
The reason that this adaptation of the 
idea is inartistic is that it is an incongruity. 
The flowers used are not the kinds which 
are at home against tree trunks, and their 
colors do not blend with the trunks. The 
entire appearance is an artificial and “‘spotty”’ 
one. Charming effects can only be had with 
flower-encircled trees when the trees, the 
flowers and their environments are just right. 
Iowa. Joun E. Mouter. 
The Time for Hotbeds 
[ees may be termed a begin- 
ning as well as an ending for the 
amateur gardener of the South. The hot- 
beds must be prepared now and seed of 
such annuals as will bear transplanting sown 
in them before the holidays, if you would 
have flowers before your neighbors. Of 
course, the plants will have to be thinned 
and transplanted to other hotbeds later 
on, so that they will have plenty of room. 
If this is not done, the growth will be weak- 
ened and the plants will be tall and spindling 
instead of short and stocky. A few well 
cared for specimens will give more satis- 
faction than double the number of partly 
neglected plants. 
Sow the seed of early tomatoes the last 
