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Fruits in a Small Garden 
Catalog 
Spring Spjiaytag Insures a Successful Garden 
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STRAWBERRIES 
Everybody loves them. Serve them [from your own garden, fresh with the 
niomin-,,' dew. 
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how small. %vith large, luscious, tempting strawberries, seven months out of 
every year. 
My free book on Stra%vberry Culture tells how*; so plain a child will understand; 
also catalogue describing the kinds to grow — Early, Late, Everbearing 
varieties. M rite to-day. 
J. T. GARRISON & SONS, Woodstown, N. J. (Nurseries, Bridgeton, N. J.) 
School of Horticulture for Women 
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The Sun and the Sunlight Sash 
Heat rays from the sun can pierce the cold Winter air all right, only to be absorbed and 
destroyed by the frozen earth. But when they happen to fall upon glass — especially two 
layers of glass enclosing an air space, which is the Sunlight Sash — they pass right through and 
are saved. Then they warm up the bed and the plants and the double glazing holds the heat 
securely stored. The sun and the sash make a Summer of their own — and your own too, if 
you please to have it in your Winter Garden. 
any other sash, but omit the extra 
covers and save the most expensive and 
burdensome part of W inter gardening. 
You will also get earlier and stronger 
plants for there will be no loss of light. 
If you want to work indoors, get a small, inexpensive, 
ready made Sunlight Greenhouse. It is heated as easily 
as a bath room and gives e.xcellent service. 
CYPRESS is the only wood we use. We sell sash 
open or glazed; double-glazed or single glazed; un- 
painted or painted; one or two coats; best sizes: 3’ x 6 
(standard); 3' x 3' 2 \" (pony). The greenhouse is 
sold either open or double glazed or single glazed as 
you prefer. 
Call on the Sunlight for your needs. The c?)st will be small. 1 he service 
Great. Shipment immediate. 
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SUNLIGHT DOUBLE -GLASS SASH CO. 
927 E. Broadway Louisville, Ky. 
Sunken Path House 
You should equip your cold-frames and 
your hot-beds with the Sunlights. 
These sash are complete in themselves 
and need not be covered with mats 
and shutters. Use them as you would 
^^ToTHotbeds 
and Cold-frames 
' I 'HAT a small fruit or berry garden can be 
made ver>’ profitable, I have proved, 
but it’s attractiveness is more difficult to 
accomplish, especially where one wishes to or 
must locate it in view of ones home and 
porches. The question is solved to my satis- 
faction and perhaps my experience may sug- 
gest help to others. 
I found a strawberry' bed an uncomfortable 
proposition in my small place of an acre and a 
half. It was pretty only when in full bloom 
and after trying for several years I gave up 
trying to keep a regular strawberry bed and 
worked out a new scheme; a simple but most 
effective one. I planted in the spring, fine 
young strawberry plants on the edge of the 
paths running to my sundial in my formal 
garden. They look very pretty at all times 
and are especially attractive when in bloom; 
are kept weeded and trimmed every time the 
flower beds are weeded. The berries are 
easily gathered in any weather from the 
grassy paths and have no insects on them. I 
allow runners from the finest plants to mature, 
to replace any that may fail or look poorly. 
W hen the berries are formed lawn trimmings 
are placed under each bunch of berries to raise 
them from the ground. In the fall they are 
mulched and put in order when the perennials 
are covered and the first thing to be done in the 
spring is to go over them carefully to cultivate 
them and replace any that may have suffered 
during the winter, from a bed where the run- 
ners have been kept for the purpose. No one 
wanted to pick the berries when they were in a 
regular bed in long rows. Now it’s so easy 
and attractive to pick while one enjoj's the per- 
fume of the flowers right under one’s nose and 
nearly always the temptation is ovenvhelming 
to pluck the fresh flowers at the same time for 
the breakfast table. 
To make currant, gooseberries and rasp- 
berries look attractive from the porch was a 
grevious question so last fall I rearranged them 
on rather original lines. 
The red raspberries I planted four feet apart 
in bunches placing a stout stake at each bunch 
and running a loop of stout wire from stake to 
stake. On these loops the vines run and the 
berries are easily gathered. It seemed un- 
necessary to waste so much valuable space be- 
tween the plants so I took one bush of Mam- 
mouth White currants, separated the roots, 
trimmed the branches to standard shape and 
planted them between the raspberry bushes. 
I edged the bed with a double row of straw- 
berries. Next came the question of goose- 
berries which had grown to an enormous size 
trailing on the ground. Three feet away from 
the raspberries, we set up the lines of wire net- 
ting on stout posts 3 feet high, and twenty feet 
long as to rows, divided the gooseberry bushes, 
trimmed them, planted and tied them to the 
wire espalier shape in between the posts. I'lien 
trimmed others to standard shape and planted 
them at the posts. Three feet from the 
gooseberries I planted two rows of Red Cherry 
currants — three feet apart — trimmed to stand- 
ard shape. This I did in the fall and eagerly 
awaited results in the spring. The currants 
blossomed and bore a full head of fine large 
currants, particularly the white ones. I he 
gooseberries were full of fruit, and I am 
pleased with my experience. I have kept 
them trimmed as to the suckers and side 
growth and I am sure that the second year’s 
growth will be abundant and what is more, I 
have an attractive small fruit bed m full view 
of the house. On one end of the plot, are 
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