The First Important Step to Successful Gar- 
dening is Hotbeds. 
Every gardener, farmer, and those with private home gar- 
dens should have one to a hundred sash, according to the 
extent of their growing of vegetables. Large market-gar- 
deners make their biggest profits 
from their hotbeds. 
They will last for years; the 
cost is small, the returns big. 
Order the sash now, and get your 
hotbeds ready. See prices below. 
There is IVluch Pleasure 
and Big Profits are 
IMade by Growing 
Vegetables in Hot- 
beds and Coldframes 
I urge all my customers to use 
more sash, for every day you gain 
in getting vegetables to market 
earlier means better prices, quicker 
sales and more profits. 
The sash I offer you are posi- 
tively the strongest and best 
made. They are 3x6 feet, i\4 
inches thick, all joints are blind- 
mortised, white-leaded and steel- 
dowell-pinned; a H-inch round 
steel rod supports the bars in 
the center. 
Start Tomatoes in your frames in February and stake 
them up as the season advances. Cut off all laterals, 
leaving only a single vine. This is the ideal way of 
securing early Tomatoes. Leave them growing right in 
the frames. 
Suggestions for Pre- 
paring Hotbeds and 
Coldframes. 
SUB 
Coldframes are thost- 
warmed by the sun only ; 
hotbeds are heated by an 
under bed of manure, giving 
' heat by its fermentation. They arc- 
both a sort of "small greenhouse" 
that will yield bountiful returns 
every month in the year. 
This illustration shows how to 
make a hotbed. Put in 2 feet of 
fresh horse-manure for winter, use 
half that depth for spring. Mix 
the manure with one-third leaves 
You will have clusters of or straw, which keeps it from 
Tomatoes like these, that burning by too rapid fermentation and destroying its heating qualities at the start. Tramp down 
will be ripening three weeks hard; leave sash off three days, and until a thermometer phmged into the mixture shows 90 degrees. 
In advance of others. Now place 9 inches of good soil on top, free from lumps, the finer the better, having mixed with it 
thoroughly well-rotted manure. Then sift on top an inch of loamy soil, making a soft bed for the 
seeds. Hotbed Mats 40 x 76 inches, $1; 76 x 76 inches, ti.is. 
Test Number Two 
Rest opposite corners of one of our 
Sash on supports and give it a twist, and 
see how snug and tight the joints stay. 
Test Number Three 
Put a support under one of our Sash 
and lift one man right off his feet. This 
is an all-round test that, severe as it is, 
not a light of glass will be broken. 
Test Number One 
Take one of our Sash and 
jam it down hard on the corner. 
You will find it solid as a rock. 
PRICES OF SASH, 3x6 feet. Glass and painted, two coats, single-light. $5.50, double- 
light, S6.75. Without glass and painted, one coat, single-light, $2; double -light, $2.25. 
Without glass and unpainted, single-light, $1.90; double-light, $2.10. 
PRICES OF STANDARD FRAMES: 2-sash Frames, without sash, $9.50; with sash, $20.50. 
d-sash Frames, without sash, $12.50; with sash, $29; 4-sash Frames, without sash, 
$15.50; with sash, $37.50. 
PRICES OF SUB-FRAMES: For 2-sash Frames, $7.50; for 3-sash Frames, $8.75; for 
4-sash Frames, $11.50. 
GET YOUR SEED ORDER IN EARLY. ORDER YOUR SASH EARLY. Plan your garden well; get started early, 
keep ahead— don't be "back" with your work. "The early bird catches the worm" — the early gardener gets the profit. Be a 
leader. Get Started Right by Planting SohalPs Quality Seeds. They Grow Better— They Yield Better—They are 
Absolutely the Best^ . 
MAKE EVERY FOOT OF SOIL PRODUCE ALL THE FOOD POSSIBLE 
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