XIV 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



March, 1907 



Winner No. 1 



Machine for all hollow, part hollow, 

 or solid brick. It saves 15 to 20 per 

 cent, material. Makes more than 20 

 different sizes in length and thickness. 



Winner No. 2 Special 



A four-brick machine, the best machine 

 made for making mouldings. It has 

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 A machine for man or boy. 



Price $35 



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free ventilation can be given in pleasant 

 weather. The temperature should be kept at 

 sixty or sixty-five degrees, to insure healthy 

 growth of seedlings. 



On cold days the sashes of both hotbed and 

 coldframe should be kept nearly closed — quite 

 so, if the air is full of frost. They should be 

 closed each afternoon, in pleasant weather, be- 

 fore the temperature begins to drop. Open on 

 sunny mornings before the heat of the sun, as 

 concentrated on the glass, becomes intense. It 

 will not be necessary, in the ordinary weather 

 of early spring, to open the sashes widely — 

 just enough to allow the moisture of the air 

 inside to pass off and some fresh air to enter. 



Ventilation must be given from the start, 

 if one would grow strong, healthy plants. If 

 the hotbed is kept closed all day, seedlings 

 will soon damp oH and die. The amateur 

 gardener may be puzzled to know just how 

 much or how little to ventilate, but a little 

 careful observation will soon enable him to 

 manage this part of the work successfully. 

 Avoid opening the sash in such a way that a 

 cold wind can blow in on the delicate plants. 

 They can be tilted on the cross bars in such 

 a manner as to allow the damp air to pass 

 off freely, and prevent the exposure of the 

 plants to cold drafts and frosty winds. 



In the hotbed, properly managed, one can 

 grow radishes and lettuce nearly two months 

 earlier than you can get them from garden 

 sowing. Other plants, from later sowings, 

 will gain a month or six weeks on plants 

 started in the garden. It pays to have a hot- 

 bed if you care for early vegetables. 



If an early supply of rhubarb is wanted, 

 put a barrel, minus head and bottom, over a 

 strong clump of roots, and bank up about it 

 with fresh horse manure. Cover the top of 

 the barrel \\ ith a blanket, or something similar, 

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Prepare the garden for the reception of 

 seed as early in the season as it can be worked 

 satisfactorily. At the north, as a general 

 thing, not much can be done to advantage 

 this month in the way of plowing or spading. 

 We must wait until the water from melting 

 snows and early spring rains has drained out 

 of it. But in warmer latitudes this work can 

 be done now. Throw up the soil, and leave 

 It exposed to the action of the elements until 

 It will crumble readily under the appllcatlo-i 

 of the hoe. Then pulverize it, and work into 

 it whatever manure is made use of. You can 

 not make the soil of the garden too fine or 

 mellow. 



At the north manure can be spread over the 

 garden In advance of plowing or spading, thus 

 anticipating some of the work of the season. 

 Use fertilizers liberally, if ^'ou want fine vege- 

 tables. Vegetables grown in a soil of only 

 moderate richness are almost always tough and 

 lacking in flavor. 



Now is a good time to get racks and trel- 

 lises ready. Always have one or the other 

 to train tomatoes over. These should never 

 be allowed to lie on the ground, as they always 

 will, after setting a heavy crop of fruit. If not 

 given some kind of support. Som.e prefer a 

 frame made of lath, in the form a square, 

 supported at the corner by stout stakes. Over 

 this frame the vines are trained, and the 

 fruit, as it hangs below, gets the benefit of a 

 free circulation of air and freedom from mois- 

 ture. But 1 prefer a trellis of slats, or coarse 

 wire netting stretched between stout posts, 

 because it allows the fruit greater exposure 

 to the sun. This causes it to ripen somewhat 

 earlier, and gives It a beautiful color. 



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