HOUSE AND GARDEN 
September. 
1910 
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Heating and Managing a Small 
Greenhouse 
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convenient place. For very small pots, 
run it through a half-inch sieve. For the 
larger sizes, three inches and up, this will 
not be necessary — just be sure the ingre¬ 
dients are well mixed. 
Proper temperature is more likely to 
be the beginner's stumbling block than any 
other one thing. Different plants, of 
course, require different treatment in this 
respect; and just as your corn and beans 
will not come up if planted too early in 
the spring, or carrot or pansy seed in the 
heat of July, so the temperature in which 
a coleus'will thrive would be fatal to the 
success of verbenas or lettuce under glass. 
As suggested in the preceding article on 
construction, it will often pay, where a 
variety of things are to be grown in the 
small greenhouse, to have a glass partition 
separating it into two sections, one of 
which may be kept, either by additional 
piping or less ventilation, several degrees 
warmer than the other. So, while a gen¬ 
eral collection of many plants can be 
grown successfully in the same tempera¬ 
ture, it is foolish to try everything. Only 
actual experiment can show the operator 
just what he can and cannot do with his 
small house. Even where no glass par¬ 
tition is used, there will probably be some 
variation in temperature in different parts 
of the house, and this condition may be 
turned to advantage. The beginner, how¬ 
ever, is more likely to keep his house too 
hot than too cool. He may seem at first 
to be getting a fine quick growth, and then 
wonders why things begin to be lanky, and 
yellow, forgetting that his plants can get 
no air to breathe, except what he is care¬ 
ful enough to give them. For the major¬ 
ity of those plants which the beginner is 
likely to try — Geraniums, Petunias, Be¬ 
gonias, Fuchsias, Abutilon, Heliotrope, 
Ferns, etc., a night temperature of 45 to 
55 degrees, with 10 to 20 degrees higher 
during the day, will keep them in good 
growing condition during the winter, pro¬ 
viding they are neglected in no other re¬ 
spect. So long as they are not chilled, they 
cannot have too much fresh air during 
sunny days. Make it your aim to keep the 
temperature as steady as possible — the 
damage done to plants is as often the re¬ 
sult of sudden changes in temperature as 
of too high or too low a temperature. 
If it is easy to overdo in the matter 
of temperature, it is even more so in wa¬ 
tering. A soil such as described above, 
when watered, will absorb the water rap¬ 
idly, and leave none of it standing upon 
the surface of the pots after a few mo¬ 
ments. Practice and practice only, can 
teach just when the soil has been suffi¬ 
ciently “saturated.” It should be watered 
until wet clear through, but never until it 
becomes “muddy.” And when watered it 
should not be watered again until “dry” 
— not baked and hard, but a condition in¬ 
dicated by a whitening of the surface, 
and the rapidity with which it will again 
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