HOUSE AND GARDEN 
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March, 
1914 
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Here at The Gardens, we specialize in this, one most artistic flower in its 
hundreds of varieties and colors. 
Being the only Specialists in America growing, and offering IRISES exclu¬ 
sively, we have the most wonderful collection to be found anywhere, acres of 
them, over 750 varieties. If you are a lover of flowers you will want some of 
these popular varieties for your Hardy Garden. 
We are doing for the Iris what Kelway of England, Lemoine of France, and 
the leading specialists of America are doing for the modern Paeony. SEND 
AT ONCE FOR BEAUTIFUL CATALOGUE. 
ERITH N. SHOUP 
THE GARDENS - DAYTON, OHIO 
and tomatoes. The onions, as they will 
not require transplanting before being set 
in the garden, should be sown rather 
thinly in flats three or four inches deep, 
with an inch or two of rich compost at 
the bottom. The rows should be placed 
about three inches apart, which will give 
150 to 300 plants to the flat; or they may 
be sown directly in tbe soil, and the sash 
over them used on another frame later. 
The best varieties for this purpose are 
Ailsa Craig, Gigantic Gibraltar and Prize- 
taker. Of all tbe other vegetables, early 
varieties should be used; such as Wake¬ 
field or Copenhagen Market cabbage, 
Snowball cauliflower, Wayahead lettuce, 
Early Model beet, Comet or Bonny Best 
tomato, and Golden Self-Blanching cel¬ 
ery. The second planting, made ten days 
or so later, should include tomatoes for 
main crop, peppers and egg-plants, Match¬ 
less and Dwarf Giant tomatoes, Early 
Neapolitan and Chinese Giant peppers, 
and Black Beauty egg-plants, are all good 
sorts. The third sowing, about the first 
week in April, should include musk- 
melon, cucumbers, lima- beans, sweet corn, 
and, if desired, summer squash. These 
should be planted in five or six inch 
square paper pots (which are, respect¬ 
ively, about four and five inches in diam¬ 
eter), in a very rich compost of fine soil 
and old manure. These pots may be 
placed temporarily between tbe tomato 
plants set out in the frames, or growing 
a b c n 
A simple arrangement of frames providing different 
temperatures in order that seedlings may be trans¬ 
planted for gradual hardening off 
in pots. A good method is to pack the 
paper pots as close as they will go in a 
flat before filling them with earth and 
planting them, so that they can be easily 
moved whenever the tomatoes begin to 
need the room. 
Even if there is a chance of your 
being able to plant some of these things 
outside within a week or two, you will 
gain greatly by starting them under 
glass. It is not the date of planting, but 
the warmth and protection they have to 
start with, that will determine their sea¬ 
son of coming into bearing; so that, in 
case of a cold, late spring, such heat- 
loving things as melons and pole lima 
beans will be away ahead, even if planted 
on the same date that they could be 
sown outside. 
Tbe seedlings, as soon as they are 
ready to transplant, which will be about 
the time the second true leaf begins to 
show, are transplanted, setting 50 to 100 
in a flat, and placed for a week or so 
under the glass sash (in “B”), when they 
may be transferred (to “D”) under the 
cloth sashes. (Or, if the frames are 
equally tight, the sash may be moved, 
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