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Show Electricity Great Aid to Market Gardeners Electrical gardening has proved to be a practical and economically profitable profit-able occupation in Sweden. Although the recent winter was one of the hardest In history, such garden products prod-ucts as "home-grown raspberries," cucumbers cu-cumbers and the most delicate of gar-don gar-don flowers have been available at all times. In the gardens near Hamling-by, Hamling-by, a small town north of Stockholm, 10,000 tulips, 1,500 lilies-of-the-valley, and 1,500 hyacinths were raised during dur-ing January, all in ground electrically heated and under the artificial light of electric lamps. The operating expense ex-pense of the electrical system was found to be negligible. The most difficult dif-ficult phase of the work Is found In supplying various types of plants with the particular variety of light which they require, the lamps suitable for roses, for example, being unsuited to the development of carnations. There are 300 so-called "electro-horticultural" stations In Sweden, all of which are carrying on experiments in the artificial arti-ficial production of flowers and vegetables. |