Show electricity great aid to market gardeners electrical gardening has baa brov proved ed to the be a practical and economically profitable occupation in sweden although the recent winter was wag one of the hardest in history such garden products as home grown raspberries rasp berries cucumbers and the most delicate of garden flowers have been available at all times in the gardens near El amling by a small town north of stockholm tulips 1500 failes of the valley and 1500 hyacinths were raised during january all in ground electrically dented and under the artif artificial lelal light of electric lamps the operating expense of the electrical system was found to be negligible the most difficult phase of th the work Is found in supplying various types of plants with the particular variety of light which they require the lamps sul suitable tuble for roses for example being unsuited to the development of carnations there are so called electro horticultural lations in sweden nil all of which tire are carrying on experiments in the artificial production of flowers and vege tables |