Hotbeds, Cold Frames and Flats 



below the top foot of wall. These partitions 

 are not really necessary but often come in very 

 handy and are so easily arranged for that their 

 occasional use justifies their presence. Where 

 they are employed the sash can be left open where 

 required far more safely than if they were not 

 in use. Cabbage and cauliflowers do best if given 

 plenty of air and* even a tinge of frost will not 

 injure them, while it would be fatal to such heat 

 loving plants as tomatoes, peppers, egg plants 

 and many tender flowers and bulbous plants. 



The double sash is a great protection for hot- 

 beds started very early, but as a rule there is 

 little occasion for starting the beds before the 

 middle of March or early April in the northern 

 states as it is only necessary to give the plants 

 about six weeks' start of open ground operations. 

 Usually we make our out-of-door planting about 

 the twentieth of May at the north and correspond- 

 ingly later as we go south, but if we count back six 

 weeks from"Corn planting t-ime," the country over 

 we will have reliable data for starting the hot- 

 bed. Plants left too long in the bed deteriorate 



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