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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 and many of them have excellent southern and eastern oxposures whereby the sun has a chance to play through the windows a large portion of the day. Make the basement work for you. It is an easy matter to have a miniature greenhouse in most any basement where there is sufficient heat to keep the soil and plants from freezing. At least, plants for setiing out when the danger of frost is past can be easily raised in the basement, and small vegetables such as radishes, onions and lettuce can be raised ami eaten by the owner long before it is time to plant such things outside. If the window space in the basement base-ment is sulVich'iit long tray arrangement arrange-ment such as used In greenhouses may oe used tor the indoor garden. Such a tray will lie sufficient to produce a good quantity of smrJl vegetables until un-til time to plant outside and at the same rtrit- the tomato, pepper, cabbage cab-bage and other plants may be started, later to be transplanted to individual boxes for more intensive cultivation, and to be ready to transplant in t'.ie open witb laiua, healthy plants. |