IQO How to Make a Flower Garden 



blooming plants and forcing bulbs, but perhaps there are a lot of new things 

 which look hardy, but which one would rather not trust outside until one 

 has a larger stock. Then there will be sHps and pots of seeds, and surely 

 the flotsam and jetsam which is attracted to the amateur. 



In short, there is no question of the usefulness and consequent pleasure 

 of frames, even m a garden of hardy things. No one knows better than the 

 grower of hardy plants that hardiness is a comparative term, and that plants 

 as well as humans are subject to "consumption and sudden death," so 

 that success is the result of vigilance, constant care, and propagation. Con- 

 sequently, if we wish to have the nice things and not let our garden run to 

 magenta -coloured phlox, we must protect, when necessary, those things which 

 are injured by thawing, or are m some years uncertain. It is not the 

 freezing which injures most hardy plants, for their cells are adjusted to 

 expansion, but quick thawing will rack many of them seriously when at all 

 advanced in growth; most things making such growth being m a state of 

 nature protected by long-lying snow. 



To recur again to the seamy side of the subject. Some years ago, 

 being tired of airmg frames m stormy weather, as a diversion, I raised the 

 sash of my frames which were alongside of my greenhouse to meet the incli- 

 nation of its roof, and by digging a path at the back had head room, with 

 access through the furnace section. After that the operator worked m com- 

 fort and took his pleasure less sadly, especially after I had knocked out a 

 part of the side of the greenhouse, and grew orchids with the right hand 

 and rested hardy plants under the left. 



II. An Amateur's Experience 

 By James Wood 



CoLDFRAMES are not sufficiently appreciated by the general horticultural 

 public. Under proper management so much can be done with them to 

 lengthen the outdoor season of flowers and vegetables, in both spring and 

 fall, and so many things can be safely carried through the winter with them, 

 that it seems a pity they are not more generally used. Even where green- 

 houses are run, coldframes are of great service in aiding their work. 



Coldframes may be very cheaply constructed where parties are willing 

 to renew them every few years, or they may be substantially built where 



