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Important Greenhouse Building Facts 
Although it is not too late to commence to build this year, still for 
various reasons you may prefer to wait until spring. If that is the case 
let us suggest that you place the order now, and then during the winter 
months our factory can get the materials out, which means we can do it 
cheaper and give you the benefit. Everything will then be all ready to 
commence erecting first thing next spring. 
You know the U-Bar is the only proven successful curved eave house. 
It is a construction of wonderful lightness, which means more and better 
It is built for endurance. 
Then there is the satisfaction of knowing you have a house the best 
possible, for growing results, appearance, and freedom from repairs. 
Shall we come and have a talk with you? or for the present perhaps 
our catalog will answer. Shall we send it ? 
U-BAR GREENHOUSES 
DOUBLE-GLASS 
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Sunlight Double-Glass Sash Company 
929 East Broadway LOUISVILLE, KY. 
MAGAZINE 
JaANuARY, 1909 
U-BAR CO. 
1 MADISON AVE..NEW YORK. 
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for small places or those 
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The double layer of glass 
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Lets in the light always. 
Never has to be covered or uncovered; 
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Retains the heat, excludes the cold. 
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Special catalog for greenhouse material. 
Duties You Must Not Neglect 
One of the worst troubles that the amateur 
grower of carnations finds is the bursting 
of the calyx. To prevent this, never let 
the temperature fall below 50 degrees. 
Open the ventilator when it has risen to 
60 degrees on very mild days. But on no 
account permit drafts. Disbud once a 
week. Start propagating carnations early 
in the month, and make the cutting-bed as 
near to the light as possible. i 
The February number of THE GARDEN 
MacazineE will contain an article on the 
management of carnations the year round. 
Violets will be giving flowers now, and 
must be carefully looked after to keep dead 
and decaying leaves picked off. If green 
fly or black fly appears, fumigate lightly once 
a week with tobacco stems, and above all 
keep the plants cool. Forty-two to 45 
degrees at night is as warm as a violet- 
house should run. The lower the tempera- 
ture the more slowly the flowers open, but 
they will have stiffer stems and deeper color. 
Do not attempt to propagate new plants. 
About the middle of the month sow glox- 
inias, begonias (tuberous and fibrous), 
streptocarpus, amaryllis,  Clerodendron 
fallax, gesneras. All these seeds will ger- 
minate better now than a month later. 
Very fine seeds are not covered — merely 
scattered on the surface of the soil of the 
seed-bed, which is then covered with glass 
and put in a gentle bottom heat. You can 
do this just as well in the window garden, but 
watch the moisture and see that there is no 
great variation of conditions. 
Start gloxinias and begonias for early 
flower. Put the tubers thickly together in 
flats with a light covering of sandy soil. 
Keep rather dry to avoid rot and pot off the 
plants as soon as roots are well developed. 
Although it is too early to make hotbeds 
outdoors, considerable time may be saved 
by making sowings of nearly every kind of 
vegetable indoors. Egyptian beet, short- 
horn carrot, Tennis-ball lettuce, tomatoes 
(one of the English forcing kinds) are the 
best varieties for early crops. Parsley seed 
sown January rst will give crops by April, 
and will yield until the outdoor crop 
comes in. 
Do you want an unusual vegetable? Try 
the French globe artichoke. Now is the 
time to sow seeds in pots, with a chance of 
cutting heads this coming summer. Soil 
for seed sowing must be light, porous from 
sand or charcoal dust, and free from manure. 
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