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The Garden Magazine, February, 1921 
City and suburban vegetable gardens reduce homekeeping expenses 
and pay big dividends in pleasure 
SMALL plot of ground, plus a little interesting 
healthful work each day, will materially cut the cost 
of your fresh table vegetables, and prove a constant joy. 
The expense is negligible; the results a delight, when 
you plant 
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1921 
J M Thorturn &Co. 
NrwTork City 
THE SMALL UNHEATED 
GREENHOUSE 
\A/HEN as a boy 1 came to this town, there 
* ' was no place where one could buy flowers 
of any kind, and as I had always been fond of 
them, my employer, a druggist, let me use a small 
plot of ground in his garden. All through the 
summer 1 had fresh flowers at the fountain in the 
INSIDE THE GREENHOUSE 
Everything seems to flourish despite 
the lack of a formal heating system 
store, and it was not long before I began to make 
up baskets of flowers for the sick, and then some 
small pieces for a funeral. Looking back now 
1 am aware that they must have been rather 
crude, but as they were gifts no fault was found, 
audibly at least. Later people asked me to 
AN OUTSIDE VIEW 
Of the small greenhouse which enthusiasm and com- 
mon sense have made both pleasurable and profitable 
make them to order, which I did, selling also cut 
flowers and potted plants. This plant trade 
was done early in the morning before store 
opened. 
I raised so many flowers out-of-doors that I 
began to use hotbeds to start them, and as I had 
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