HOUSE AND GARDEN 
132 
February, 
1914 
Now’s the time to gain on Spring 
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With Sunlight Double Glass Sash 
no mats or boards are necessary 
If you wait on the weather to start your Spring plants, the market will be gone 
before you have anything to offer. An equipment of Sunlight Double Glass 
Sash should be ordered early. They provide growing conditions even in the 
worst weather, capturing the sun’s heat rays to liven up and warm the hot-bed 
or cold-frame during the day and holding the stored heat throughout the night. 
The two layers of glass with dead air space between are transparent by day 
and a better protection than mats or boards by night. They never shut out the 
light and always hold in the warmth. 
For your early garden 
If you want anything that grows in hot-beds or 
cold-frames, plants of any kind that must be started early 
to get early crops, you owe it to your pocketbook and to 
your pleasure to equip your garden with the 
Ten years’ use has proved their success. Made of best 
cypress; glazed or repaired in half the usual time; eliminating 
all need of mats or shutters; making plants early without 
undue forcing—they are simply indispensable to obtain the 
best results. 
A New Double Glass Greenhouse 
The sunlight idea has been carried into an inexpensive 
greenhouse, 11 x 12, 11 x 24, 11 x 36, or 11x48 ft. in size. 
It is made of Sunlight Double Glass Sash, which are instantly 
removable when the greenhouse is idle for use on hot-beds 
or cold-frames. Thus they serve a double purpose. Sash 
ordered now for Spring may be used on a greenhouse frame 
ordered at your convenience for next Fall or Winter. 
The house is shipped as nearly whole as possible. Anyone 
can put the parts together. It can be easily heated and kept 
warm—even a small stove would do. 
Write for these two books today 
One is a book by Prof. Massey, an authority on hot-bed 
and cold-frame gardening, and the other is our free catalog. 
If you want Prof. Massey’s book, enclose 4 cents in stamps. 
Sunlight Double Glass Sash Company 
L. 
944 E. BROADWAY 
LOUISVILLE, KY. 
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ARTISTIC BIRD HOUSES 
by Parcel Post prepaid. Your choice lor SI.25, three lor $3.50. 
Made in a proper way of the sweet smelling Jersey Cedar. 
Order early to avoid the rush. Blue Birds appear early in March. 
Send 6c. in stamps for new Booklet describing our bird 
goods, and giving lots of useful information. 
The Crescent Co., “Birdville,” Toms River. N. J. 
50 Practical Carden Plans 
“CALIFORNIA GARDENS,” 
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EUGENE O. MURMANN, 262 CENTRAL AVE. 
Glendale, Los Angeles, Californii 
There are, of course, prevailing winter 
and summer winds which must be learned 
in any given section; usually they are 
northeast in winter and southwest in sum¬ 
mer, but not always. But the sun is the 
same everywhere, and the building which 
is to receive the maximum amount of sun¬ 
light throughout the year must stand in 
the same position in every part of the tem¬ 
perate zone. This position is a direction 
turned as far as possible—otherwise 45 
degrees — from the cardinal points; that is, 
its walls must form angles of 45 degrees 
with the lines running exactly north-south 
and east-west. As this position changes 
to one which brings the walls of the build¬ 
ing parallel with these cardinal lines, the 
sunlight diminishes on the north walls 
always; and although midsummer will 
bring slanting rays athwart this side in 
early morning and late afternoon, rooms 
with northern exposure can hardly be 
said to “get the sun” at any season of the 
year. 
It is evident, therefore, that the oblique 
position is the most desirable, for the 
greatest amount of sunlight possible for 
every room should be the aim. Which 
rooms are to receive it all the time and 
which are to take the positions least ex- ' 
posed to it, are questions that remain to 
be decided, however; and these wait upon 
the direction of the prevailing winds. 
Never put a kitchen on the side of the 
summer breezes. Keep it on the hot side 
of the house — but set it off enough so that 
its windows may receive these same sum¬ 
mer breezes. And never put halls or 
passages or closets or stairways on this 
summer-breeze side; plan to have it open 
— wide open — so that never a passing 
breath of air shall be lost. 
Nearly always this side of the house 
will be one of the sunny sides as well, 
consequently deep, shaded porches or 
shade outside in the form of arbors or 
high-branched trees must temper the heat. 
Look to this provision of shade, however, 
after you have secured the exposure that 
is best for everything else; it is always 
easily accomplished. 
Of course, for gardens in their major 
portions there must be sunlight rather 
than shadow; so the house should never 
obscure them, if it is possible to have it 
avoid doing so. Sometimes these various 
requirements of house and garden may 
conflict, but this is not usual. Indeed, it 
is more often quite astonishing to see how. 
beautifully they all fit together, and how a 
complete layout emerges from the poten¬ 
tialities of blank paper almost of itself, 
when one sets to work. For the other 
sort of problem when it does arise, how¬ 
ever, the designer must, of course, choose 
the things which are to be sacrificed for 
the sake of the others which are his 
preference. The arrangement of the 
house for comfort and the garden’s 
proper exposure are more important, to my 
mind, than that the building should have 
sunlight on all four sides—for its plan may 
be adjusted to this condition so that it 
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