178 PLANNING AND PLANTING 



A Hot Bed, once used, will be found so valuable 

 and so convenient that one will wonder how they 

 have gotten along without it. 



Cold Frames will be found useful for carrying 

 various plants over winter, enabling them to estab- 

 lish a good root growth in preparation for the 

 activities of the coming spring and summer. 



Potted hydrangeas in the fall, or roses potted 

 up in the winter or very early spring, and plunged 

 in the soil of a cold frame, will be in fine shape 

 for future development. 



These frames have many and varied uses that 

 will suggest themselves to you when once you 

 begin to use them. The tritomas and some others 

 of the perennials that are not perfectly hardy, 

 such as physalis franchetti or chinese lantern 

 plant, may be taken up in the late fall, before 

 real winter sets in, and "heeled in" on the cold 

 frame. Radishes and lettuce may be had very 

 late by using these frames, and in fact, as stated 

 before, their uses are many and varied. 



In building hot beds and cold frames, the con- 

 struction is much the same. The sides should 

 extend down well into the soil and the soil may be 

 banked up around the sides, particularly of the 

 cold frames. 



The construction, for permanency, should be of 

 either two-inch planks or of concrete, and they 

 should be from four to six feet wide, fourteen 



