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whether winter forcing is practiced or not, for it is greatly better than a hot- 

 bed for the starting of the plants, that are to be transferred later to the cold 

 frames and the open ground. Merely for the purpose of starting plants a 

 very small house will be sufficient for a large number of sashes or cold 

 frames, since the young seedlings can be thickly grown at first, if given plenty 

 of room in the frames. A house fifty feet long by ten feet wide will not only 

 give room for the sowing of seed, but for the first transplanting of a large 

 crop of tomato and egg plants and peppers, and such a cheap structure can be 

 afforded in any garden of any pretensions to size. If one goes into regular 

 winter forcing it involves capital and experience, and if the gardener has 

 not had experience in the work he had better employ someone who has, until 

 he gains the needed experience, for no greenhorn will at first make a success 

 of winter forcing. 



