Show electricity great aid to market gardeners electrical gardening has proved to be a practical and economically profitable L i occupation in sweden although the recent winter was one of the hardest in history such garden products as home grown raspberries rasp berries 11 cucumbers and the most delicate of garden flowers have been available 1 at fill times in the gardens near by a small town north of stockholm tulips 1500 lilles of the valle vall ey and 1500 hyacinths were rats raised ed during ja january uary all in ground electrically heated and under the artificial light of electric lamps the operating expense of the electrical system was foundton found to be negligible the most difficult phase of the work Is found in supplying various types of plan plants is with the pard particular cular variety of light which they require the lamps sult suitable aile tor for roses rose for example being unsuited 0 to o the development of carnations there are s so 6 called electro horticultural stations in sweden all of which are arc carrying on experiments in the artificial production of flowers flower sand and vegetables |