A FASCINATING HOBBY 

 FOR YOUR GARDEN . . 



EVERY keen gardener longs to grow everything better than anyone else in his 

 district and longs to be a few weeks ahead of his neighbour. Bad weather, 

 biting winds, late frosts, excessive rains, birds, mice, and slugs, all combine to 

 defeat the horticulturist — to make his lot as difficult as their combined efforts can 

 accomplish. There is a certain pride in having your first sweet peas, your first 

 lettuces, your earliest strawberries, or your first dish of green peas, a week or two 

 betore anyone else, and yet this can easily be done by using the Chase Continuous 

 Cloche — the new Cloche just introduced which is proving the greatest boon ever 

 conferred on long-suffering gardeners. It is a wonderfully simple arrangement of 

 glass held together by a patent wire, and is made in every size from 2£ inches wide to 

 23 inches wide and in height from 2 inches high to 15 inches high. Each separate 

 Cloche is about 14 inches in length. The smallest sizes are for protecting single rows 

 of small seeds, such as portulaca, leptosiphon, Iceland poppies, onions, and so on — 

 the next size is suitable for sweet peas, asters, nemesia, or early lettuces ; then there 

 are sizes suitable for covering and forwarding carnations, anemones, ixias, cannas. 

 Larger ones still lor green peas, French beans, etc. Larger sizes still for covering tender 

 tea roses, and young tomato plants ; and still again larger ones for early potatoes, for 

 forcing on a row or two of the earliest strawberries so as to ripen them a few weeks earlier. 

 Indeed there is no end to the fascination of gardening by the aid of Chase Continuous 

 Cloches. The results are really quite astonishing. Although only just recently intro- 

 duced orders have already been delivered to thousands of keen amateurs who at once 

 perceive the merits of this simple but wonderful invention. The principal 

 customers so far have been Fellows of the Royal Horticultural Society — a keen body 

 of Gardeners who are naturally the first to recognise an important introduction of this 

 sort. The merits of the idea are self-obvious and need but little recommendation. 

 Briefly stated they consist of (1) Perfect Ventilation (2) Storage of sun heat as in 

 a greenhouse or cold frame. (3) A more equable and warmer temperature especially 

 on cold sunny days when there are East Winds. (4) A moister atmosphere for 

 the tender plants. (5) Preservation of the fine open surface tilth of the soil, thus 

 admitting abundance of air to the roots. (6) Prevention of Soil getting caked, 

 sodden and plastered down by heavy rains, thus rotting seeds or" so plastering 

 the seedlings with mud as to prevent rapid growth. (7) Complete protection 

 from birds and mice. (8) Protection from slugs, by sprinkling the seed bed 

 occasionally with a mixture of ashes, lime and soot — the glass cloche preventing 

 the rain from washing away or consolidating the dressing. 



Hardy Annuals. 



Give far better results if sown early — preferably in the Autumn, about September 

 or October, or in February and March. 



The Three C's system has proved a boon to every gardener who has used it. It 

 not only enables you to sow many seeds in autumn and carry them safely through 

 winter, but you can also sow in very early spring without risk ox frost and slug 

 damage. This makes you certain of larger crops, earlier crops and ever so much 

 stronger crops. The Chase Cloche bottles up and conserves tue early sunshine 

 without coddling the plants. The plants get a longer season of g.owth, especially if 

 autumn sown — whilst January and February sowings become possible and highly 

 advisable, where without the Three C's system, nothing could be attempted belore 

 March or April on account of frosts and heavy rains. 



These early sowings are of enormous advantage — thev not o 1 v r enable you to be 

 weeks ahead of your friends or competitors in producing the earl', ot tender vegetables 

 or half-hardy annuals, but they assist hardy plants such as sweet peas, beans, peas, 

 spinach, lettuce, and so on to be produced weeks ahead of >'ants grown without 

 protection, and they ensure a vastly superior quality and yie d, owing to the great 

 strength plants attain when they get a long season of growth instead of a short one. 

 This feature alone well repays the initial cost of a set of Chase Cloches, for it enables 

 the owner to be weeks ahead of all his friends in early production — in the vigour of 

 his plants and the general appearance of everything he grows by the aid of this 

 splendid new invention. 



< CCC > Cheaper than Frames or Hand=lights, 



The Chase Continuous Cloche is a great advance on the old round, bell glass or 

 French Cloche. The latter is costlv, unwieldv, and very awkward in shape. It also 

 entirely lacks top ventilation. In the Chase Cloche the narrow slit at the top and the 

 spaces between each pair provide splendid ventilation and a free circulation of air; 

 thus avoiding scorching, drawing up, tenderness and other evils. 



DESCRIPTION OF SIZES. 



For Prices, see last page. 

 Set A. — This size is especially useful for rows of peas, sweet peas, spinach, lettuces, 

 onions, beets, as well as for protecting auriculas, and for protecting autumn sown hardy 

 annuals and biennials. It is really one of the most useful sizes. 



