Greenhouse 
In August, 1949, we bought the Hansen Green- 
house and Floral Shop. We have installed an air 
circulating gas heating unit, 85,000 B.T.U. which 
has ultra modern thermostatic controi. It gives us 
an opportunity to study plant growth every day in 
the year and see blossoms every day. We have many 
varieties of plants and will be adding more as we 
get the room. 
Location 
Our Nursery is located 8 blocks east of the 
C. B. & Q. Depot and just east of the American 
Legion Swimming Pool; or 3 blocks east of the 
Courthouse Square and 4 blocks north. It is one 
block south of Highway 6. 
About six acres are set apart for the home and 
the growing of nursery stock, perennials, and other 
plants. We have about forty varieties of shade 
trees. A few of these are dwarf varieties and can 
be planted for specimen trees or hedge trees. Some 
of the large varieties are spreading, others are tall 
and narrow. They have many colors in the spring 
and fall and a few are colored in summer. All of 
them bloom, but the blossoms on some are so small 
that they are hardly noticeable. Others are a mass 
of flowers when they bloom. 
We also grow annual flowers, cabbage, and to- 
mato plants and flower seeds. 
Below are the names of garden plants that we 
grow for our customers. 
Cabbage — Peppers — 
Copenhagen Market World Beater 
Cauliflower — California Wonder 
Early Snowball Early pe 
Celery — Cornell No. 19, Hot Large Cherry 
self bleaching Tomatoes — 
Egg Plant — Valiant, red 
Rutgers, red 
Two varieties Mariglobe, red 
Kale Jubilee, yellow, 
Lettuce — large, non-acid 
Great Lakes Hybrid Tomatoes — 
Onion — Burbeana, early 
Sweet Spanish Burpees, hybrid 
Yellow Bermuda Big Boy 
Asters Russell Lupine 
Snapdragons Salvia 
Columbine Delphinium 
Petunias Sweet William 
Pansies Verbena 
Ageratum 
Hybrid tomatoes will sell at $1.00 per dozen. 
Most of the other plants will sell at 35c, 50c, 
or 60c a dozen. 
Frost Proof Planting of Tomatoes 
I use a 16-inch tile spade and slant it so the 
point will be 3 or 4 inches deep in the ground when 
the blade is in the ground about one foot and place 
in it a tomato plant 12 or 14 inches tall. Just let 
the tip stick out. Step on the ground above it so 
it will have firm contact. If frost comes and freezes 
the top rake some of the dirt off from the stem and 
it will leaf out again. The Hybrid Big Tomato was 
reported to have withstood about 2 or 21% degrees 
of frost in 1953. 
