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Show REVIEW. April 1966 Making Plastic Greenhouse For Home Is Easy Home gardener who ai not have a greenhouse need some simple method of rooting cuttings. Right now is the time when geraniums, lantanas, fuchsias and other bedding plants should be producing new shoots for this purpose. For a few cuttings, perhaps the best device is to use a thin plastic bag as q miniature greenhouse. This should be thin enough so that air can move' through its walls, but so that moisture is retained. Most freezer bags are a little too heavy for this purpose. The kind used to cover shirts and cleaned suits is about right. Screened peat moss or shredded sphagnum moss (both are available from most good garden centers) is mixed with an equal volume of clean sand. If you can't find a sandpile, try tropical fish dealers; they usually sell small amounts. Mix the two materials, dampen thoroughly and fill the bag to a depth of about three to four inches. Next, make cuttings from stock plants about three to four inches long. This should be new growth that has pushed out from the older branches. - In the case of geraniums, I find that these root better if the cutting is made at night and allowed to lie in open air until the following morning. This partially" seals the oozing cut at the lower end. Next, dip the lower end of the cutting in one of the rooting hormones sold at most garden supply outlets. A packet will treat a hundred or more cuttings. Enough of the powder will cling to the cut end to stimulate rooting. Now insert the cut end into the mix- sand-and-pe- ture to a depth of about an inch and a half. Tie the top of the plastic bag shut and set it in a wondow that is not in direct sun, but has full light otherwise. In the sun, heat can build up too high for safety. Most softwood cuttings will root in three to four weeks. Examine them at the end of three weeks and have pot up any formed roots. Those that are still green and healthy should be replanted and the bag retied. that 35-ce- nt Hardboard Discovered By Industry To the handyman, hard- i.oard is a veisatile paneling material. But it has hundieds jf other uses that affect our iaily lives. dis- In fact, industry before hardboard overed did. In one form r another, people sit on it, write on it, drive it, play cards n it, fly it or just look at it For instance, your television of abinet may sturdy hardboard with an paint. In addition to being lightweight, hardboard forms longer unjointed surfaces, and costs less than slate, When necessary, hardboard even goes to war as lining for tanks, combat trucks and plane fuselages. e. When you modernize, don't overlook the possibility of infuncstalling streamlined, tional built-i- n cabinets. be-m- ade ve wood-grain- sur-!ac- ed Padded hardboard prob-ibl- y forms the backs and eats of your dinette chairs. Plastic-coate- d hardboard is used for kitchen cabinets, and laminated hardboaid for countertops. Because it takes hard wear and has a smooth surface, hardboard is often found in the childrens room as crib nds, play pen bottoms, play table tops and even as toys In one of its decorative fin- .. ishes. hardboard may also be used in your card table, oc- Icasional tables, cabinet facings and furniture inserts. ,fMost mirror backings and rawer bottoms are also hardboard. f ul advantage in a variety of Automobile door panels and ways in any room in the package trays are other places house. Its resurging popularity where hardboard is used is due in part to the fact that tensively. And in school, old- filigree is now available in fashioned slate blackboards hard-filigrinexpensive durable hard- - have been replaced with Jboard sprayed with slate 11 ee Acids Decorative touches of "fili- gree or open grill design are a sure way to give a room in- elegance. 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There is a hardboard for ing maintenance to a minimum, because of the desire of every room in the house homeowners to reduce upkeep kitchen, bathroom, family costs and to enjoy their new room, play room, living room, leisure. bedroom, basement, laundry Low maintenance is also a room, workshop plus garreality for owners of older age, closets and exterior sidhomes, too, thanks to the ings. It is available with woodfloors, availability of easy-car- e walls, ceilings, counters, cab- grained, natural, embossed, and numerous inets and exterior sidings One of thfe most versatile of other finishes. It can be used for wall paneling, . storage the new materials is hardboard. Long walls, room dividers, cabinets, favored by handymen as a wainscoting and hundreds of utility material because of its other uses. Prefinished hardboards can uniformity,' workability and as is." Other exceptional hardness, hard- be installed board is available today in hardboards are available with no sandmany new and improved styles and finishes. ing or other preparation needEngineered to resist denti, ed. Hardboard sidings are mars, scuffs and scratches, either prefinished or factory-prime- d for easy painting. tempered hardboard readily Until a fewr - vinyl-cover- ready-to-pal- ed |