October, 1909 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



133 



A Double Glass Sash 



By W. S. BODLEY 



The new invention for hot-beds and cold-frames 



77 means more to gardening than anything else since the invention oj the hot-bed Itself. 

 It increases the size, quality and rapidity oj growth oj plants; it reduces the expense; it 

 saves nearly all the labor and all the risk. It makes winter gardening delight Jul. 



EVEN the most experienced will be surprised 

 at what he can accomplish with a frame of 

 five double-glass sash. By planning ahead, 

 he can use them throughout the entire year — can 

 either make it extremely profitable or a source of 

 very great pleasure. But don't delay putting it in. 

 If you want flowers, it will soon be too late for 

 Christmas blooms. 



Makeshifts never pay 



Don't try to build your sash and frame yourself. 

 Get the best there is. Unless it is made perfectly 

 it lets in the cold or the water seeps in and rots 

 your frame or it warps and the sash won't slide 

 easily. There is an immense satisfaction in a 

 perfect frame and a perfect sash. The double- 

 glass sash comes ready in every detail and will 

 last for ten or fifteen years and it never gives the 

 slightest annoyance. 



You can get twice the results 



For example, under five double-sash, one man 

 got violets in bloom all winter long when the snow 

 was banked up around them. Early in December 

 the violets will begin blooming freely and if kept 

 picked, especially if several varieties are used, they 

 may be plucked until early in the spring. 



With the Sunlight Double-glass Sash, after your 

 plants are started, you have practically nothing to 

 do but air them and watch them grow. Your 

 beds never need covering. The dry air between 

 the two layers of glass is the best non-conductor 

 there is — a much better protection than mats, 

 boards, or shutters. It keeps your bed at a good 

 growing warmth; makes your plants grow as 

 vigorously as in the open air in May. 



Recommended by men who know 



The Sunlight Double-glass Sash is used by such 

 men as Bolton Hall, intensive farming expert, 

 author of Three Acres and Liberty; by R. L. 

 Watts, Professor of Horticulture, Pennsylvania 

 State College; by L. H. Cooch, editor of the Prac- 

 tical Farmer, Philadelphia; by State Agricultural 

 Stations and by the Agricultural Dept. at Cornell; 

 also by H. B. Fullerton, director of the Long Island 

 R.R. Experimental Stations, Dept. of Horticulture. 



It eliminates all risk. Plants under Sunlight 

 Double-glass Sash have flourished during the 

 coldest weather while those under single-glass 

 sash and coverings have been blighted and nearly 

 all lost. Sudden changes in temperature can t 

 affect the tenderest plants under Sunlight Sash. 



The principle on which it is built 



Heat rays follow light rays. Two layers of 

 glass instead of one and between the layers a f inch 

 cushion of air. No putty, panes are lapped and 

 by an ingenious device held close to wood — can't 

 possibly work loose. In thawing weather, there 

 is circulation enough to ventilate the bed. In 

 freezing weather, every crevice freezes up tight, 

 and air between the two layers of glass becomes 

 absolutely dry — a perfect non-conductor. 



Two serious handicaps to the 

 single-glass 



The man who uses the single-glass sash has 

 found that it is covered so much of the time that 

 his plants don't get enough light. Plants need 

 light — the more of it, the better. The Sunlight 

 Double-glass sash is never covered. It lets 

 in all the light all the time. This overcomes what 

 has always been the most serious handicap to 

 hot-beds and cold-frames. 



By doing away with mats, shutters and boards, 

 the Sunlight Sash reduces the breakage of glass to 

 a minimum and cuts out practically all of the work. 

 You can handle your bed in half the time. 



Some of the things you can grow 



Plan ahead. Use your frame all the year 

 around. You can force beets, early cabbage, 

 cauliflower, celery, egg-plants, muskmelons, 

 peppers, sweet potatoes, tomatoes — can raise your 

 own pansies, violets, can get cosmos a month 

 earlier than ever before. 



Wherever you live, you can accomplish a great 

 deal even with a frame of five sash. Many thou- 

 sands of these Sunlight Double-glass Sash are in 

 use by market gardeners, private estates and in 

 city and suburban homes on large and small lots, 

 from Middle Canada to Southern Florida. 



Start now. Write for four plans for a frame 

 of five sash. To get the particulars address 

 Mr. W. S. Bodley, 927 E. Broadway, Louisville, 

 Ky. Full definite information with the approxi- 

 mate cost will be gladly given. 



• I 



:y Red Sweet Potatoes I 

 grown under 



Single GlasJkV V»£ 

 "Sunlight" 

 Doublet 





Last April, Mr. H. L. Fairfield of Home- 

 wood, III., wrote us: "Grew lettuce, radishes, 

 onions, cabbages, cauliflower, tomatoes, pep- 

 pers, eggplants, and various flowers in hot- 

 beds under Sunlight Sash for private use. 

 Plants were vastly superior in size, etc., and 

 the sash are great labor and worry savers." 



With a five sash frame, you have a fifteen 

 by six foot growing space. For very little 

 expense and practically no trouble, you can 

 have fresh vegetables for your table when 

 market prices are ridiculously high, and 

 exquisite flowers all through the long winter. 



for Hot-beds 

 and Cold-frames 



the only double-glass sash made 



Never needs covering. 



Keeps in the warmth — shuts out the 

 cold. Gives your plants plenty of light and 

 makes them stronger, earlier. 



Eliminates all risk. The Sunlight is the 

 best put up sash you can get anywhere. 



Try the Back-to-land Plan 



Know the pleasure and broader life that 

 you can get from just a bit of winter gar- 

 dening. Try it. Write for our catalog. 

 It tells you everything you need know. 

 Order early to insure prompt shipment. 

 Get our freight prepaid proposition. 



Write to-day. Now is the time to prepare 

 your beds. 



Sunlight Double Glass Sash Co., 

 (Incorporated) 

 927 E. Broadway, Louisville, Ky. 



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