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Winter Gardening 
For Profit- 
A market gardener 
who grows lettuce ex¬ 
tensively in cold frames 
once remarked—“You 
see those frames? 
THREE-SASH FRAME 1-* .1.1 
L-very eight inches 
square of their space has six five-cent nickels in a little pile in the ground. 1 rake 
them out each season.” 
In the three-sash frame illustrated there are 54 sq. ft. or 121-1/2 eight-inch squares from which you can 
reap your own harvest of 729 “five-cent nickels." Lettuce grown in cold frames is of better quality than 
if grown in ihe open. Radishes, beets or parsley may be planted between the rows of lettuce. Violets, 
pansies and mignonette flourish abundantly in these cosey beds. Start Spring seedlings of tomatoes, 
cauliflower, asparagus and sweet potatoes and have healthy plants for early setting out. 
LUTTON SASH FRAMES made in 2, 3 and 4-sash sizes. Single 
or double glazed. Any size pays for itself with a single crop and 
gives years of profitable service. Carefully crated and shipped ready 
for use. Frames sold with or without sash. 
Write for pamphlet D describing these frames and how to use them. 
We will also send a catalogue of the LUTTON PATENTED 
GREENHOUSES if requested. 
WILLIAM H. LUTTON, 
Jersey City, New Jersey 
A Beautiful Lawn 
Insure a velvety, green, quick-growing lawn; also 
double the yield of the garden and produce earlier 
and better vegetables, by 
feeding the soil with 
SHEEP’S HEAD 
SHEEP MANURE 
Rich in nitrogen, phosphoric acid 
nd potash. Pulverized, ready to 
apply. Also will show quick 
results on flowerbeds, shrubbery 
and orchard. Large sized barrel, 
$4, freight prepaid east of the 
Missouri River. Send for folder. 
Natural Guano Co., 804 River Street, Aurora, Ill. 
A Fine Garden 
STAINED* ‘CR EO-DIPT SHINGLES 
Come in bundles ready to lay. Save time, labor 
and muss of staining on the job. 
Send for Art Catalog. 
Special information about shingles stained and 
sawed to give that wavy, thatched effect. 
Standard Stained Shingle Co. 
85 Oliver Street North Tonawanda, N. Y. 
Smoky Fi 
Made to Draw 
Cooking Odors Carried out oi the House 
Payment Conditional on Success 
FREDERIC N. WHITLEY, Engineer and Contractor 
210 Fulton St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Heating Ventilating Air Filtration 
No. 07462 c < ® 
Gaumer. 
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Lighting fixtures 
Gaumer designs (artistic), Gaumer construction (substan¬ 
tial), Gaumer finish (permanent) are the three elements 
that assure you entire satisfaction. 
Design and construction can be judged by the eye; but FINISH has 
always been taken “on faith” until the presence of our Guarantee 
Tag gave you assurance of a permanency never before suspected. 
Look for the Tag. 
Secure yourself against a quickly shabby Fixture by requiring your 
dealer to furnish a Gaumer Guarantee Tag with every one you buy. Catalog 
of styles mailed for the asking. 
John L. Gaumer Co., Dept, a 
22d and Wood Sts., Philadelphia, U.S.A. 
In writing to advertisers please mention House & Garden. 
(402) 
SOUTHERN GARDEN 
DEPARTMENT 
Conducted by JULIA LESTER DILLON 
The writer of this department will 
gladly answer inquiries from Southern 
readers in regard to their garden prob¬ 
lems. Please enclose a self-addressed, 
stamped envelope if a prompt personal 
reply is desired. 
Rose Planting Time 
A S far as the preparation of the soil 
and general cultural directions are 
concerned, any good article on rose plant¬ 
ing applies to this as well as other sections. 
There, however, we must stop and hew 
out for ourselves a new road to meet the 
climatic and growing conditions that con¬ 
front us. 
Many years our gardens can show roses 
from early in March to late November 
and often December. South of Nashville, 
no protection is needed for any varieties, 
even the tender Niphetos and the tenderer 
Marechal Niel going safely through our 
severest winters. We might almost say, 
“Plant roses and let them alone, and warm 
sunshine and gentle rains will do the rest.” 
If it were possible for me to have only one 
kind of a flower in my garden that one 
would be a rose. No other flower does so 
well without care, nor so well repays one 
for all the attention showered upon it. 
December is always rose planting time 
and rose pruning time in the Southern 
States. After the first heavy frost the 
weak canes should be cut out, and the 
strong ones cut back closely if long stems 
and fine quality of blossoms are desired. 
One amateur rose-grower, whose gardens 
are famous for the beauty and size of the 
long-stemmed blossoms, makes it his in¬ 
variable rule to cut back every rose bush 
to six inches of the ground and to remove 
all the weak shoots entirely. One who has 
fewer plants might prefer quantity of blos¬ 
som rather than size, and if so, the prun¬ 
ing should be less severe. The vigorous 
growers need less pruning than the slower 
growing varieties. 
Climbing roses must be trimmed very 
slightly. Of course, all weak and spindly 
growth should be removed and the side 
branches shortened in, but the main stem 
must not be disturbed. All dead canes 
should be removed as they appear and in 
all pruning the cut should be clean, other¬ 
wise the bruised stem will decay. 
Much well decomposed manure, used 
both in the fall and spring; bonemeal and 
liquid manure occasionally as the growing 
season progresses; the ground always free 
from weeds, and other plants; sunny posi¬ 
tions ; cultivation in summer; with prun¬ 
ing in the winter, is the price necessary to 
pay for fine roses. How small the tax is 
in comparison with the beautiful return! 
I11 planting, due attention must be paid 
to soil preparation; all canes which are 
