FRAMES FOR GARDENS. 



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FRAMES FOR GARDENS. 



or even with oiled paper. Such appliances 

 as these are used in market gardens, and 

 by reason of their simplicity and cheapness, 

 and the ease with which they are put up and 

 dismantled, will be found of much use in 

 private gardens for raising and protecting 

 early crops in a warm aspect in the spring, 

 and for obtaining and saving lettuces, c., 

 throughout the winter. 



Ordinary Two-light Frame. The prin- 



by one, two, or three lights. The best way 

 of making a frame is to construct the sides 

 with tenons of some length, that pass 

 through mortices cut for their reception in 

 the ends of the front and back, as shown 

 in the illustration given in Fig. 3, which 

 affords a correct representation of a two- 

 light garden frame, in accordance with the 

 directions given above. In this, A and B 

 represent respectively the front and back, 



FIG. I. LONG FRAME OR PROTECTOR, WITH RANGE OF SMALL LIGHTS ON TOP. 



FIG. 2. SUPPORT FOR 

 LIGHT. 



ciple of the garden frame is set forth in the 

 description of the Long Garden Frame or 

 Protector, and from this it may be seen 

 that the frame itself, 

 be it of what size it 

 may, is always made 

 in the same stereo- 

 typed manner, so to 

 speak that is to say, 

 the front is higher 

 than the back, and 

 the sides are cut so as to slope or slant from 

 back to front in accordance with the relative 

 height of these parts. A good proportion 

 for the relative heights of back and front is 

 3 parts for the former to 2 parts for the 

 latter that is to say, if the front board be 

 12 inches high the back should be 18 inches, 

 or if the front be 18 inches high the back 

 should be 27 inches. These are the heights 

 at which the back and front parts of a 

 garden frame are usually made, their 

 lengths varying according to the number 

 of lights with which the frame is covered ; 

 and as garden lights, as a general rule, are 

 6 feet by 4 feet, so a frame will be 6 feet 

 by 4 feet, 6 feet by 8 feet, or 6 feet by 12 

 feet, according as it is made to be corered 



and c the side nearest to the spectator. 

 The mortices, tenons, and pegs by which 

 these parts of the structure are connected 

 and held together are shown at D, D. 

 Ledges, lettered E, E, are screwed on to 

 the outside of the sides, and front and 

 back are further connected by a slip of 

 wood, F, which should be rebated on each 

 side, or on which a slip should be nailed 

 down its centre lengthways to form a 

 rebate, in order to supply a bearing in 

 which the inner edge of each light may 

 slide up and down. In these bearings and 

 in the top of each side a semicircular groove 

 should be cut from top to bottom to catch 

 and carry of any rain that may find its way 

 in at the edges off the sides of the lights. 

 The lights are made of stuff from I \ inch 

 to i^ inch thick, and are furnished with 

 three or more grooved sash bars, as shown, 

 and strengthened by a flat iron bar about 

 T \ inch thick and one inch wide, let into 

 the under side of the framework of the 

 light, and passing through slots cut for it 

 in the sash bars. This bar is shown at H 

 in each light, and at G an iron handle, 

 which is screwed to the edge of the top 

 of the frame to afford means by which it 



