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House &" Garden 
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and all parts and fittings are of proper 
weight, strength and design. 
In Anchor Post Fences 
and Gates each part is 
specially designed for 
the use to which it is put. 
Correct proportions, su¬ 
perior mechanical de¬ 
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and an experience of 
over twenty-five years, 
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Intensive Methods and the Vegetable Crop 
{Continued from page 50) 
absolutely essential. Between Octo¬ 
ber first and the last half of March 
it will yield beets in 40-50 days 
from date of sowing seeds, carrots 
in 45-60 days, lettuce in 35-55 days, 
radishes in 20-40 days. 
Of course, much depends on the 
choice of varieties. Points that 
should govern the selection of sorts 
for under-glass gardens are their 
time of maturitj', habit of growth, 
productiveness and pedigree. The 
last is by no means the least impor¬ 
tant, for, no matter how well a sort 
measures up to all requirements, if 
you get a poor strain of it, your 
plans are apt to go astray. 
This brings us to the point of 
methods in under-glass gardening. 
When you consider that it requires 
a lot of time, money and care to get 
results, it is only logical that you 
should want those results to be 
worth while. Your efforts must 
produce crops above the average or 
the game won’t be worth the candle. 
For methods by which this most ela¬ 
borate form of gardening may be 
made profitable, we are indebted to 
the French. For over a hundred 
years they have practiced such in¬ 
tensive methods that an acre under 
glass would yield more net profit 
per year than many quarter section 
farms in this country. 
Intensive Planting 
As long ago as 1810, French gar¬ 
deners coming to this country taught 
their new American countrymen to 
“sow short-topped radish seed, mixed 
with carrot seed, or spinach seed, 
maybe mixed with the radish seed. 
The spinach or carrot will be fit for 
use sometime after the radishes are 
drawn out.” Here we have the 
sum and substance of intensive meth¬ 
ods for under-glass gardening. They 
consist simply of selecting crops not 
related to each other and of differ¬ 
ent seasons of maturing, sowing them 
in one and the same row, and har¬ 
vesting your crops in their order of 
getting ready. 
We have learned much since. We 
now know that it is perfectly safe to 
sow three different kinds of seeds 
at one and the same time and har¬ 
vest three crops in succession with¬ 
out any special effort. For instance, 
radish, lettuce and carrots make good 
companion crops. Select a radish 
that is ready in 25 days, a lettuce 
that is ready in 40 days, and a carrot 
that may grow for 50 days, and you 
have a perfect program. Just one 
hint—sow your seeds thinly and buy 
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the best strains that are available. 
Another good combination is rad¬ 
ish, spinach, carrots and beets. Se¬ 
lect an extra early radish, any spinach 
(Victoria is a good one), a 50-day 
carrot and a 60-day beet. After the 
radishes are pulled, see that the bal-' 
ance of the plants stand at least 
4" apart. Never sow seeds broadcast 
in a hotbed. With rows 4" to 5" 
apart you may expect maximum re¬ 
turns from every square inch. 
Small Fil\mes and Forcers 
And now a few words about the 
usefulness of the smaller accessories 
such as miniature frames and forcers. 
I do not believe the majority of 
home gardeners appreciate the value 
of these devices as much as their 
merits deserve. Their movability is 
one of the strongest points in their 
favor, their low price another. With 
their help, seemingly risky trans¬ 
planting early in the season becomes 
a perfectly safe operation as I have 
proven to my perfect satisfaction 
time and again. 
For instance, we are very fond of 
cucumbers and melons. (Ordinarily, 
seeds of these cannot be sown out¬ 
doors before June first. We now 
“beat” that date by two weeks and 
have cucumbers by the 15th of July 
instead of August 15th, and musk- 
melons by August first instead of 
the middle of that month. 
Here is how we do it: 
About April 1st we sow Emerald 
Gem muskmelon seeds in paper pots 
indoors, five seeds to a pot. These 
pots are sunk in the hotbed. Within 
four weeks we generally have a 
fairly good “stand” of three or four 
plants per pot, which are then lifted 
(pot and all, so as not to disturb 
the root system) and set outdoors 
in well manured hills and covered 
with a junior frame. They never 
receive a setback and, in about 115 
days after seeds are sown, we gen¬ 
erally enjoy our first melon. Cu¬ 
cumbers are handled in very much 
the same way except that we do 
not sow the seeds until mid-April. 
The principal value of the little 
glass houses lies in their inexpensive¬ 
ness and assistance in keeping early 
and late frosts in the spring and 
fall off plants that are right at the 
height of their bearing season. They 
have often helped us carry a fine 
row of lettuces right up to Thanks¬ 
giving, and kept late frosts away 
from our bean rows that were thriv¬ 
ing lustily in the garden by May 
20th, after an early start. 
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