MaL * Hotter 



glass down and say good night to the baby plants at 

 about 4 p. M. 



When the soil seems drying, sprinkle with luke- 

 warm water, using the finest nozzle on watering pot ; 

 keep soil loosened about seedlings, and weed every 

 day. (I know that sounds like brutal advice, for only 

 natural born acrobats can, with comfort, perform 

 weeding in a hotbed.) 



In the late autumn when we dig the celery we 

 leave a lot of soil on the roots and replant, thick 

 as sardines, in the hotbed. The plants never wilt 

 and if they know they have been moved they don't 

 let on. The rest of the celery is put out in the 

 garden in a deep grave, covered with boards and 

 soil. The celery in the hotbed keeps us supplied up 

 to the end of December, when we spade all the old 

 soil and manure out of the bed and pile it to one 

 side, leaving the hotbed clean and ready for early 

 spring operations. The sashes are merely hooked 

 to toolhouse and centre stake, and there they remain 

 perfectly safe all winter much safer than if we 

 ran the chance of breaking them by removal to in- 

 terior of toolhouse. 



The pile of last year's discarded richness is per- 

 fect to use for roses or any other flowers, so each. 

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