This section is from the book "The Gardener's Monthly And Horticulturist V28", by Thomas Meehan. See also: Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long.
"L. A. B.," Wisconsin, writes : " I subscribe for a number of papers, and have not found the right one yet. I want to get hold of a paper devoting space to vegetable gardening. Send me the Gardeners' Monthly one year. I have just finished a very good greenhouse, and am going to grow vegetables exclusively. My house is 100x20 feet, heated by 850 feet 4-inch soil pipe, and one of Weathered's No. 6 Heaters. I have used 12x16 'A' double glass, and have spared no means to make the house first class".
[We are always happy to answer any inquiry that may be made on vegetable growing, or any other branch of gardening. There are now so many excellent practical books on gardening, that it seems a needless waste of space to repeat in a magazine what these cheap treatises contain. The province of a magazine is to keep ahead; to report all the new advances that books in general do not contain. A magazine has to have for its motto the advice of some stores, "If you do not see what you want, please ask for it." The Editor will always cheerfully respond. - Ed. G. M].
 
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