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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
September, 1912 
The Greenhouse gan easily 
BE ONE OF THE MOST ATTRAC¬ 
TIVE AND INTERESTING—> 
FEATURES OF YOUR GROUNDS 
r I 1 HAT is to say — provided they are designed right, planned 
right, and built right by the right greenhouse concern. 
Simple as this house is, it certainly fits into its location most 
charmingly. 
The catalog shows 50 more equally as attractive. 
Some are snug litle chaps—others goodly sized—but every one 
of them is interesting to any one at all interested in having a 
greenhouse. 
Send for the catalog. Write to our main office at 
Elizabeth, N. J. 
Or call at our New York Branch, 
1170 Broadway 
The artistic character of the designs, 
the quality of the genuine French willow 
and the stability of workmanship make 
Willowcraft Furniture in great demand 
for use in WINTER as well as summer 
homes. The genuine bears the trade 
mark “Willowcraft.” None other is 
genuine, nor so good. Free style book 
of over 160 designs shows the correct 
treatment in Willow Furniture. 
THE WILLOWCRAFT SHOPS 
Box C, North Cambridge, Mass. 
Just a turn of 
this little cranlO 
opens or closes i 
your shutters 
THE MODERN WAY TO 
CLOSE YOUR SHUTTERS 
Stand inside and turn a little crank — don't 
remove the screens or even raise the sash. 
THE MALLORY SHUTTER WORKER 
opens, fastens at any angle, or closes and locks 
the shutters from the inside, without admitting 
flies and mosquitoes or exposing yourself to 
bad weather. 
Attractively finished to suit your woodwork. 
They are readily attached to any shutter on 
old or new frame, brick or stone dwelling. 
Ask your hardware dealer, and if he does 
not have them, write us for our Free illus¬ 
trated booklet, giving us your Dealer’s name. 
Mallory Manufacturing Co. 
255 Main Street, Flemington, N. J., U. S. A. 
AJaking a Garden with Hotbed and 
Coldframe 
(Continued from page 157) 
tain the heat and to exclude the cold. 
Even a bank of snow will be better than 
nothing. 
The top dressing should be from six to 
ten inches deep. The ideal soil is some¬ 
what sandy, which will prevent baking 
and will remain friable and crumbly. A 
mixture of leaf mould, sand, and well rot¬ 
ted manure will accomplish this result. 
Some gardeners do not plant the seeds 
directly into the hotbed soil, but use shal¬ 
low boxes technically called “flats.” This 
is a very satisfactory practice but not ab¬ 
solutely necessary. 
Except for the under layer of ferment¬ 
ing manure, a hotbed and a coldframe are 
practically the same. The method of 
management is also very similar. Of 
course we can start our hotbeds at least 
a month before we do our coldframes and 
be more independent of weather condi¬ 
tions, sunlight and so on, but at the same 
time that we plant the tender seeds in a 
hotbed we may also plant the more hardy 
things, such as beet, lettuce, radishes and 
onions, in a coldframe. 
Seeds are usually started in a hotbed 
and later the plants are moved to a cold- 
frame, to harden off, where they remain 
until planted in the open. 
Hotbeds and coldframes will require 
protection at night to retain the heat. 
During the day a certain amount of heat 
is contributed to a hotbed by the sun, but 
at sundown, the temperature invariable 
falls, and to maintain a temperature of 
say 60 degrees in the hotbed, when it 
may be below freezing outside, we must 
give some protection other than that fur¬ 
nished by the glass. Some hotbed sash 
are double glazed. This is a great ad¬ 
vantage. The inclosed air space between 
the two lights of glass form an insulating 
chamber in just the same way as double 
sash on our houses. But even double 
glazed sash will sometimes require ad¬ 
ditional protection. All sorts of frames 
and mats are used for the purpose. 
Perhaps the best solution to the mat 
problem is to purchase direct from the 
manufacturers from whom you buy your 
sash, the standard mats and slats that they 
make for the purpose. They cost $1.00 
each for a single sash and $1.25 for a mat 
large enough to cover two sash. This is 
considerably cheaper than straw mats can 
be made. 
There is really no month in the year 
when a set of frames can not be put to 
some use. First of all in the early spring, 
we prepare them as hotbeds to get an early 
start for our flowers and vegetables. 
After the heat has died out and the seed¬ 
lings transplanted, we use them as cold- 
frames. We can alwavs fill in gaps by 
sowing lettuce and radishes. During the 
summer, we can leave a few plants to 
mature right in the beds themselves. 
These plants will give us our best results. 
We shall have tomatoes the size of wal- 
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