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If You Want Summer Time 
in the Winter Time 
Build Your Greenhouse Now 
W HEN the roses are bloom¬ 
ing in June, it is so easy 
to forget the dull, 
dreary months of wind and rain 
and snow. Summer in all its 
beauty seems never ending—un¬ 
til some chill evening your 
neighbor comes along and says: 
“Feels like frost; better cover 
up your plants.” 
Then it is that we receive nu¬ 
merous letters asking us to: 
“Come at once and see about 
building a greenhouse”; or let¬ 
ters urging us to “Hurry up 
with my house, we simply must 
have it completed at once.” 
Hitchi n 
NEW YORK CITY 
1170 Broadway 
Of course, we do all we can; 
but it’s hardly fair to expect us 
to do in a few days what it re¬ 
quires weeks to do, as it should 
be done. 
The truth is: if you want your 
greenhouse ready so your 
flowers will be blooming freely 
for Thanksgiving Day and 
melons ripe for Christmas, you 
ought to get started at once. 
The quickest way would be to 
send for one of our representa¬ 
tives and go right into the mat¬ 
ter from A to Z. 
At your request, we will come 
and see you or send our catalog. 
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say, without the “ounce of prevention” 
treatment. But with this sort of treatment, 
disease will never appear among them at 
all, nor will insects be troublesome. Bor¬ 
deaux mixture applied every week is a 
preventive of all fungous diseases — and 
these are the diseases which must be pre¬ 
vented, for they cannot be cured, once the 
spores have entered the tissues of the 
plant. Aphids will undoubtedly make their 
appearance, but a spray of soapsuds or of 
tobacco tea, made by steeping tobacco 
stems until the concoction looks like strong 
tea, will effectually dispose of them, pro¬ 
vided the work is done regularly and im¬ 
mediately upon the appearance of even one 
of these insects. Worms of any kind 
should be poisoned by poisoned foliage. 
Hellebore is the best for this, put on after 
sprinkling or early in the morning while 
the dew is on the plant, either with a bel¬ 
lows or with a sifter. The rose bug is the 
one trouble which we cannot cure, so must, 
in a measure, endure. It usually goes to 
the lightest colored flowers, consequently 
many gardeners entice it away from roses 
by the use, near them, of something like 
spiraea, which blossoms at the time these 
bugs appear and will thus attract them. 
If the bugs are allowed to remain on the 
plants they will eat them up completely in 
summers when they are very plentiful. It 
is usually supposed that only hand picking 
avails against them, but I am told that a 
spray of wood alcohol is effective and will 
not injure the flowers. I have never tried 
this myself, so cannot vouch for it, but if 
the bugs make their appearance in any 
numbers this summer, I certainly shall test 
it. The spray must be very fine, but it will 
not injure the plant owing to the fact that 
the moisture deposited evaporates very 
quickly. Be careful not to inhale it, for it 
is said to affect the eyesight if breathed. 
Standard roses are for the advanced 
class rose growers rather than for the be¬ 
ginner. The combination of these with 
peonies as shown in the illustration is a 
sight never to be forgotten, and where 
space permits and the real rose obsession 
has become well developed, by all means 
have a few of these plants handled in some 
such way. 
Rose arches and arbors are possible 
where no rose garden is attempted. Among 
climbing roses the most desirable are the 
Wichuriana hybrids. The foliage of these 
suffers very little from the attack of in¬ 
sects, and they bloom abundantly as well. 
Dorothy Perkins is perhaps the best 
known and best loved, of an exquisite pink 
and really fragrant. Hiawatha, which is 
a single rose, is very beautiful, and the 
white Dorothy Perkins likewise is particu¬ 
larly fine. Lady Gay is a pink climber 
that sometimes has even better flowers 
than the Dorothy Perkins, although very 
often the two are said to be identical. 
These are all hardy. Several varieties of 
hybrid climbing teas are offered, but these 
are not hardy. If you do not mind the 
trouble of taking them down in the winter 
and of covering them with earth, there is 
no reason why they should not be grown. 
Crimson rambler, although lovely, I do not 
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