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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
December, 1910 
The rejuvenating compartment for the outdoor and porch plants. 
U-BAR GREENHOUSES 
PIERSON 
DESIGNERS AND BUILDERS 
U-BAR CO. 
1 MADISON AVE„NEW YORK. 
Two More Reasons Why You 
Should Have a Greenhouse 
Y OU need one to protect, during the colder months, the various tub plants, shrubs and 
moveable trees you have about your grounds and verandas during the summer. 
They look a bit weary and bedraggled at the end of the season, but a winter in the 
greenhouse brings back all their vigor and beauty. 
You also need a greenhouse to start things going early for both your flower and kitchen 
garden. You very much need one for this purpose, especially if the season is a bit short. 
What a lot more satisfactory, for instance, to have cosmos in bloom the last of July instead 
of middle of September. Tomatoes and egg plants a month earlier certainly appeals to you. 
Two plain, common sense reasons for owning a greenhouse. Just think of the all 
winter flower joys besides! 
But go carefully about buying your greenhouse. Very carefully. There are definite 
defining reasons why the U-Bar is the best greenhouse for you. Our catalog tells why. One 
of our representatives tells them even better. Which shall we send? 
A three compartment house at Camden, Maine. 
First of all there is the pussy-willow. 
One had been in the front yard when we 
came to the house about thirteen years 
ago. Some one had cut it down, and had 
attempted to dig it out in order to get rid 
of it. But it would not die and in eight 
years it grew into a great tree into which 
our boys used to climb; and then when 
it began to decay at the trunk, we slipped 
some of the branches for the backyard, 
and cut it down. It came up from the 
roots again, and is now a splendid tree 
nearly five years old, the delight of hun¬ 
dreds who pass the house in the early 
springtime. The five-year-old in the back¬ 
yard is also a beautiful tree. Through 
these trees I watch the coming of the 
spring, for the pussies on the branches, 
formed the fall before, begin to swell out 
and show their white heads in February, 
and are out of their little houses in March, 
and in full bloom in April when the snows 
and the frosts are still upon them. 
After the pussy-willows come the daffo¬ 
dils. Up with the first warmer days of 
March, they are in bloom in April almost 
as early as the pussies. Then in the last 
days of March, or the first of April, the 
bleeding-heart, the fungus-lily, the lily-of- 
the valley, the spirea, and the crowfoot 
come up, and the iris, and the ribbon- 
grass begin to show green. The lilac, the 
syringa, the deutzia, the rose, the honey¬ 
suckle break forth into leaf, while the 
hepatica, and the fern come up in the 
shady corner despite the chill, and the 
April snows. When May comes there is 
all the joy of watching these various 
plants spring into bloom and fill the yard 
with color, and in June the roses, spirea 
and syringa add still more of brilliant 
beauty. 
Besides these perennials there are plants 
from tubers like the maderia vine, and 
from the seed like the morning glory. We 
train these vines over the fences. We 
also have a pansy bed blooming through 
the whole summer and even into the frosts 
of autumn. All these add to the life and 
beauty of the window until it is just full 
of the life and beauty of the great world. 
Now and again the birds come and 
alight in my garden. Once in a great 
while the visitor is a robin. In the fall of 
1906 a pair of brown-thrashers gave me 
a call, and in 1907 they were here from 
September 19th to October 3d. One day 
in May, 1907, I heard a sound that took 
me back to the hedgerows and the woods. 
It was, “Chewink, chewink,” and there, 
sure enough, was a pair of those pretty 
birds in my pussy-willow tree. On the 
same day in May a pair of cat-birds gave 
me a call. On October 5th, 1907, a flicker 
visited us for half an hour and dug 
worms in the backyard. 
One morning during the same month 
I heard a bluejay call, but he flew before 
I could locate him. Twice a year, for 
about a week during the early spring and 
the late fall the starlings call to us from 
the top of the church steeple next door. 
But the strangest visitor of all was a 
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