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The Garden Magazine, February , 1921 
U RDER Sutton’s seeds this year 
and have a garden that equals 
the wonderful gardens of England. 
Sutton’s Flower and Vegetable 
Seeds are more than fertile seeds 
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many years of careful selection from 
the best specimens grown in our 
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If you are desirous of seeds bet- 
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Guide. It catalogues and illustrates 
flowers and vegetables such as are 
seldom seen outside of England, un- 
less produced from the first genera- 
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order. Early orders are advised as 
we ship each order direct from Eng- 
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Royal Seed Establishment Reading, England 
H. P. Winter & Co. 
64-C Wall Street 
New York. N. Y. 
Originated and Introduced by 
The Elm City Nursery Company 
Woodmont Nurseries, Inc. 
Box 191, New Haven, Conn. 
Box-Barberry can be safely planted in 
spring or fall. 
Send for special Box-Barberry folder and 
general nursery catalogue. 
GLADIOLI 
' A bed of beauty for $1.00. 
25 lovely Gladioli prepaid. 8 varieties. 
THE DAHLIA FARM 
East Moriches Long Island, N. Y. 
PROGRESS TDCrC 
AND PUNTS GROW 1 
because they are propagated right, dug carefully, and packed securely. 
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We pay express charges. Why pay for your trees before you get them? 
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THE PROGRESS NURSERY COMPANY 
1313 Peters Avenue Troy, Ohio 
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calls for small plants I used more glass. I then 
bought the store from my employer, and 
found that 1 must have better accommoda- 
tions so I • had a small, unheated house 
io x 14 ft. built on the south side of my dwelling 
with benches on the sides and one in the middle 
and one shelf to put flats on. Seeds were sowed 
in March and the flats were at first carried to the 
basement of the dwelling at night. Later when 
the weather grew warmer, the plants were kept 
in the house continuously and a small kerosene 
stove put in to prevent freezing, which worked 
very nicely. As soon as the space was full 1 
would set the plants in the hotbeds and fill the 
house again with new transplants. 
My business has increased little by little until 
1 now raise yearly more than a thousand Tomato 
plants, besides Asters, Salvias, Cosmos, and 
many other smaller plants. 
The last of April 1 begin to buy my other plants 
for selling. 1 buy my Geraniums and put what 
I can in the house, and I have one large bed out- 
side with high sides where 1 put the rest. I also 
buy Heliotropes, Lobelias, Coleus and a good 
deal of similar stock used in planting out. About 
the last of May the Geraniums are in their prime. 
1 fill my urns and at Decoration Day 1 make up 
many pots of assorted plants for the cemetery, 
also many designs for the same purpose; and all 
of this is done from my little house. 
As soon as the bedding plants are out I put in 
other plants to raise through the summer for 
cutting. Under one bench I have English Ivy, 
which will stand the cold winter months when 
there is no fire, if covered to keep it from freez- 
ing and thawing. When needed for use it is 
easily uncovered. 1 also have a number of 
Roses including Richmond, Killarney, and La 
France, and while they do not bear all I need, 
there is seldom a time in the summer that I can 
not cut a few flowers from them. 
In the fall I put about three thousand bulbs 
(different kinds of Narcissus and Hyacinth) into 
flats for cutting and into pots for selling. They 
are set in the cellar where it is cold and brought 
out as wanted into the basement of the dwelling, 
which has two east windows, where they bloom 
beautifully. They do not need much sun, only 
light, and I find sale for all of them. If they 
come on too fast I put them back in the cellar 
where it is less light, and they keep all right. I also 
keep Ferns growing there in summer and in the 
fall. I still run the drug store and I find this 
outside work helps out more than one would 
think. As there are only about three thousand 
people in this town, a regular greenhouse run 
alone could not, I think, be made to pay. 
So you see that a small beginning can amount 
to something if one has the taste and liking for it. 
It not only puts many dollars into my pocket, 
but it has given me health besides. Someonemight 
suggest that 1 do not put much time in my store 
— but I do. I have to hire help in the -summer 
for that work, and as I have a man indoors it 
lets me out when I am needed. Any one who has 
a liking for flowers can get great enjoyment at 
very slight expense in running for themselves a 
little greenhouse of this simple kind. 
E. W. Reed, Massachusetts . 
