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Show TO HAVE AN INDOOR GARDEN Make Your Basement Work for You by Producing Vegetables Before Outdoor Planting Time. Nearly every cottage, as well as the larger houses and the city bungalows, are equipped with large basements. Many of these basements have space that Is not utilized mid many of them have excellent .southern mid eastern exposures whereby the sun bus a chance to play through the windows it largo portion of the day. Mnko the basement work for you. 11 Is an easy matter to have a iiiluiutuu' greenhouse In most any basement where tlieie Is HUlllcieut heat to keep the sojl and plants from freezing. At bast, plants for setting tnit whJn'the danger of Host Is pasjf run be easily raised in the basement, and small M'gcfahles such as ladlshes, onions and. letfve ''an bo raided and eaten by tle owner long before It Is time to plant such things outside. If tho window space In the babe-ment babe-ment Is sufllcient a long tray arrangement arrange-ment such as used In giccnhouscs nuy be used for the Indoor garden. Such a tray will be sufllcient to produce a good quantity of small vegetables until un-til time to plant outside and at tho smile limn the tomato, pepper, cabbage cab-bage and other plants may be started, later to be transplanted to Individual Jioxes for more Intensive cultllntlnii, and to be ready to transplant In tho open with huge, healthy plants. |