METHODS L.NUliK GLASS 201 



As soon as removed sow in their place celery, peppers, 

 egg plants and a second seeding of tomatoes. 



Take the cabbage, lettuce and beets out of the hot- 

 bed some days before you plant and give them all the 

 air and cold that they will stand so as to harden them. 

 Then transplant cabbage four inches apart, lettuce five, 

 beets in rows ten inches apart. This can be done in the 

 open ground, as these things will stand freezing. Mr. 

 Anderson has had cabbage plants in open ground when 

 it was twenty-two degrees below freezing and they 

 made good heads. JJut it will be much better, he thinks, 

 if a frame can be around them over which coverings 

 can be placed in freezing weather. As soon as the 

 tomatoes are large enough, transplant them in the 

 hotbed in the space before occupied by the boxes. Tliey 

 should be four to six inches aj^art and should remain 

 there until they bloom. 



Useful Details. — W. H. Pillon, Ontario county, 

 New York, a leading special prize winner, gives details 

 for forcing several kinds of tender plants, as follows : 

 I sowed egg plant, tomato and pepper seed, March 30, 

 in a small box in the house. Good garden soil was put 

 in the bottom of the box with one-fourth fine rotted 

 manure, filling within an inch of the top, then one- 

 half inch of woods mold. I made little drills three 

 inches apart and one-half inch deep, with a pointed 

 stick. I sowed the seed in these drills and covered 

 lightly, using a case knife and pressing the soil upon 

 the seed with the knife. I used small plant labels, 

 numbered, between each variety of seed. I also kept 

 a record in my diary so that I could tell where each 

 variety was when I wanted to place them in the hotbed. 



After sowing, I watered the soil and covered it 

 with a cloth. In three days I watered it again, drop- 

 ping the water upon the cloth, and after that whenever 

 the soil seemed too dry. The box was kept on a small 



