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F^Haa^t^f^Lk THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



September, 1912 



Build That 

 Conservatory 

 You Have Talked 

 About So Long 



STOP everlastingly talking 

 about it — and build it. 

 It won't cost a cent less 

 next year — maybe more. 

 Then anyway, perhaps it won't 

 cost as much as you think it wilf 

 Of course if your ideas are large 

 — the cost will be proportionate. 

 Perhaps they are large, then 

 mayhap we can suggest to you 

 how practically the same 

 results can be secured at 

 considerably less cost. Or, 

 on the other hand, we may 

 be able to make suggestions 

 that will develop your first 



idea into one with twice the cost. 

 In either case you will secure the 

 one you want and if we build 

 it, it will be worth all it costs 

 and more. 



There are two exceedingly at- 

 tractive interior views of the 

 conservatory aboveshown in our 

 greenhouse catalog. In fact 

 there are thirteen pages de- 

 voted entirely to conservatories 

 and porch-enclosures. 

 Send for the catalog and get this 

 conservatory question settled at 

 once so we can have it all com- 

 pleted before frost comes. 



nham Boilers for Residence Heating. 

 Send for catalog. 



Lord & Burnham Company 



Sales Offices: 



New York 



St. James Bldg. 



Boston 



Tremont Bids. 



Philadelphia 



Franklin Bank Bldg 



Chicago 



Rookery Bldg. 



Factories: 



Irvington, N. Y. 

 Des Plaines, 111. 



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Ferns In A Wardian Case 



MY WINDOWS are so overshadowed by porches 

 that attempts at cultivating flowers in the 

 winter have proved failures. A day in a dell, 

 where ledges of rocks shut out most of the sunshine, 

 opened my eyes to what might be had in rooms as 

 sunless as mine. It then dawned upon me that 

 wild plants might be made to live among people 

 and in houses if they were given the conditions they 

 require. 



I began my experiments with a small Wardian 

 case or fernery. The old gardening books say one 

 may have almost anything if he but "carry fern 

 seed in his pocket," and this little Wardian case 

 I count the first fruit of "fern seed in my pocket." 

 Wardian cases are so called from an English natural- 

 ist named Ward who first used them. He lived 

 in the heart of London, and after repeated failures 

 with the sensitive ferns and other delicate plant? 

 upon which he experimented, he invented these 

 little glass-covered houses to protect his specimens 

 from the smoke, dust, and dry, heated atmosphere 

 of the house which had always sooner or later 

 resulted in their deaths. The original Wardian 

 cases were air-tight; yet this is not a necessity. 



The case I made was simply four panes of glass 

 scarcely over a foot square, bound together with 

 strips of brown cambric put on with good library 

 paste. Another pane of glass served as a cover, 

 and was bound about three of its edges, as were 

 the tops of three of the glass walls. On the fourth 



A Wardian case for growing ferns indoors in winter 



