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 write to the Readers' Service 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



November, 1909 



This Is One Of Those Little, 

 Two Compartment Greenhouses, 

 50 Feet Long, 18 Feet Wide 



As far as the outside of this greenhouse is concerned, the result is certainly most attractive. 



Inside, it is the perfection of indoor gardening conditions. One fine, roomy, three-bench 

 compartment with every inch growing flowers; while its mate is divided off for vegetables such 

 as are so often difficult to buy in the winter. Even if you can buy them, they have a disap- 

 pointing, wilty kind of taste. There is nothing like having fresh things — fresh from your 

 own greenhouse garden. 



This one is built right on a steep side hill, which easily made possible a splendid storage 

 room underneath for bulbs and dormant plants, besides leaving ample space for a double 

 tier of mushroom beds. 



And now a word about buying a greenhouse. Are you going to? Very well, then cut 

 out your local carpenter and builder for the present, and talk it over carefully with us, as 

 greenhouse builders. Having us build it may cost a bit more to start with, but you will save 

 a good bit to end with. 



Let us have a little correspondence on the question; give us an opportunity to send you 

 printed matter that will give you exactly the facts and figures you need just now. 



Lord and Burnham Company 



IRVINGTON 



N.Y. 



NEW YORK 

 BOSTON 



PHILADELPHIA 

 CHICAGO 



*■■■■ 



Have Flowers 

 All Winter 



Grow them in this greenhouse. It costs 

 only $250 complete, ready for immediate 

 erection. Shipped knocked down, glass 

 all in. Any handy man can put it up. 

 Price includes benches, radiating pipes, 

 boiler and all. No extras. Made from 

 best of cypress, iron braced. No founda- 

 tions needed, is bolted to iron posts. Per- 

 fectly portable, take it with you if you 

 move. First time a full-fledged, practical 

 greenhouse has ever been offered so low. 

 We make them by the hundreds— Thor- 

 oughly Guaranteed. Ship them every- 

 where. Get it before a freeze comes. 

 Send for booklet. 



Hitchings & Company 



1170 Broadway, New York 



•J \J IN " JLJ 1 J\ Lu O WITHOUT 



PEDESTALS 



Send for illustrated 

 price list H 29 



HARTMANN-SANDERS CO. 

 Chicago, III. 



New York Office, 1123 Broadway 



1HE GARDEN STUDIO, at 



647 Boylston St., Boston, 

 Mass., offers a unique oppor- 

 tunity for the selection of gar- 

 den accessories in artificial stone, for large 

 estates, formal gardens or small home 

 gardens. On exhibition and for sale 

 are sun dials, benches, urns, columns, 

 gazing globes, tables, balustrades and 

 fountains. Particular attention is given 

 to the ornamentation of city yard gardens. 



We shall be glad to send a book of prices and 

 illustrations of the garden accessories, which 

 will enable you to order by mail. 

 The firm desires also to announce that it 

 makes and has made for years a specialty of 

 fine interior decoration for town and country 

 houses, libraries, churches and theatres. 



L. HABERSTROH & SON 



647 Boylston Street • BOSTON, MASS. 



pots of tulips, hyacinths and narcissus for the win- 

 ter's house supply, when late in October there was 

 found in the cellar, on top of a box of earth, an old 

 bulb, evidently one of the hyacinths that had been 

 forced last year. It did not look in a very prom- 

 ising condition, and I had been told that it was of 

 no use to try to force a bulb a second year. 



However, I had one empty hyacinth glass, and I 

 decided to try an experiment. I put the bulb in 

 the glass with the proper amount of water, and left 

 it in a dark, cool closet until about January 7th. 

 Then, the roots being well grown, I brought it into 

 the light and later into sunshine. It proved to be 

 a Pieneman hyacinth. 



By January 14th it showed three blossom stalks, 

 and by January 26th there were three spikes of 

 beautiful blue bells — one of eleven bells, one of six 

 and the third (which came from a very small bulb 

 at the side) three bells, each two inches across. 



My other bulbs were perfect last year, and gave 

 me abundant flowers in continuous succession from 

 December 10th to the latter part of March; but none 

 give me more actual pleasure than the one that was 

 such an unexpected success. 



Massachusetts. M. F. B. 



House Bulbs from Thanksgiving 

 to March for One Dollar 



I AM surprised to find how few people realize 

 the very small amount of trouble and expense 

 required to produce excellent effects with bulbs in 

 the house. 



The polyanthus narcissus (Paper White grandi- 

 flora) gives the most immediate result and with the 

 least care of any bulb. The accompanying pic- 

 ture is of a bowl of ten bulbs, planted November 

 26th, taken when they were in full bloom, Decem- 

 ber 21st. 



Fill a bowl three-quarters full of small pebbles, 

 mixing in one or two pieces of charcoal to keep the 

 water pure. Set the bulbs on the pebbles, working 

 them in a little so that they will stand upright, until 

 their roots grow, and so close that they almost touch. 

 Fill the bowl with water and set in a dark place, 

 keeping it full of water. Care must be taken 

 that the bulbs be kept in a perfectly upright 

 position until the roots are formed. At the end of 

 a week, or when you see that the roots have begun 

 to take hold of the pebbles, move the bowl from the 

 closet, but do not put it into direct sunlight. At 

 the end of a day or two put it in a sunny window, 

 and from then on no care is required except to keep 

 the bowl full of water. It is of great importance 

 that the bulbs should stand level with the window, 

 otherwise the stems try to reach up to the light 

 and become long and spindly and not strong 

 enough to support their own weight. This narcissus 

 is in every way more satisfactory and more certain 

 to bloom than the better-known Chinese lily. This 

 instance of quick blooming is not an isolated case 



These bulbs of Paper White narcissus, planted Nov- 

 ember 26th, were in full bloom December 21st 



