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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



March, 1913 



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Why Don't You Find Out 



What a House 



Like This Would Cost? 



I O MANY are just like you — they put off finding out the cost 

 of a greenhouse, just because they have a notion it costs too 

 much. 



If greenhouses were priced in the advertisements, as are automo- 

 biles, you would soon be talking about Hitchings' " Runabout House 

 for $250," or their "Six Cylinder Range for $5,000." 



You could have a pretty definite idea what greenhouses of various 

 sizes cost. You wouldn't hesitate about having one. 



But you can't advertise greenhouses that way — it's not practical 

 — there are too many varying conditions that it is necessary to care- 

 fully consider before a price — fair to each condition — can be given. 



One thing is certain, however; for an equal expenditure, it would 

 be hard to find anything which would give you, and those about you, 

 as much genuine pleasure, year after year. 



Find out what this house costs. 



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II 



Vegetable "Reminders" 



WITH even the very smallest garden of your 

 own and just one old-fashioned hoe, the 

 possibility of fresh vegetables for your table during 

 the summer is multiplied many times. 



Peas. Make the first planting in March or early 

 April. Have the ground full of rich, strawy 

 manure, and in trenches six inches deep and wide 

 and two feet apart sow the seeds so that they he 

 about one to every two square inches. Put an 

 inch of fine soil over them until they begin to 

 prick through it, then another, and let them come 

 up through that. From time to time as they 

 are hoed fill the trench. Then keep the surface 

 stirred to hold the moisture. Do not choose 

 tall-growing varieties; they require supports and 

 are slow in fruiting. 



There are several varieties of lettuce to choose 

 from. With the earliest opening of the soil sow 

 the seeds in drills half an inch deep and do not 

 let weeds choke the tender young plants. Re- 

 peated sowings through the summer will pay. 



Winter lettuce may be raised readily if sown 

 about August 1st so it can make its growth before 

 severe weather. It may be enjoyed until after 

 Thanksgiving if the precaution is taken on cold 

 nights to cover it with canvas. This should be 

 supported on six-inch stakes driven into the soil 

 so as to keep it from injuring the lettuce. If windy, 

 throw soil on the edges. If these heads can be 

 lifted with the soil and set in a well-blanketed 

 coldframe or cold cellar, they will be available 

 until long after Christmas. Use the Hanson 

 variety. 



Beets may go into the ground as early as peas 

 and lettuce. No more delicious food exists than 

 freshly picked beet greens full of little beets. 

 Sprinkle the seeds half an inch apart in drills 

 fourteen inches apart, the same as lettuce. 



A five-cent packet of eggplant seed sown in a 

 sheltered spot or in a little window box will supply 

 ten or a dozen plants for your garden and as many 

 more for each neighboring friend. Set the plants 

 after danger of frost is past. 



Peppers are interesting to grow, their rapid 

 development is so surprising. Give everything rich 

 soil, and every two weeks add to it a slight sprink- 

 ling of nitrate of soda — merely enough to show 

 on the surface. It melts into the soil. Raise the 

 large, sweet varieties of pepper. 



Lima beans. Get the bush variety and plant 

 every foot in rows two feet apart, after mild 

 weather is assured. Hoe and enrich the soil. Begin 

 to eat them as soon as they will shell. 



Do not make the soil too fertile for snap beans 

 and do not hoe any beans when the leaves are wet. 

 Plant these an inch deep and two inches apart in 

 drills twelve inches apart. Snap the pods fresh 

 and cook with a bit of salt pork in salted water as 

 soon as they begin to be three inches long. 



To supply a family of four with tomatoes, set 

 three plants of an early variety and the same num- 

 ber of later ones, too. Force them by fertilizing 

 well and frequently hoeing. If too bushy and 

 not blossoming, cut back with shears about one 

 quarter of the growth. Keep the fruit off the 

 ground on frames or straw and let air and sunshine 

 quickly mature it. Pick and prepare within an 

 hour of eating. 



The Fordhook squash is perfect for both a 

 summer and winter squash, being excellent to 

 eat as soon as set and from then until it becomes 

 too hard through age, when it makes the finest- 

 grained food in winter varieties for a full year. 



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