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by nailing a wide board on the north side to 

 firmly driven stakes, and a narrower one is 

 arranged in the same way on the south side. 

 Boards across the ends complete the rude, but 

 effective appliance. The sash facing the south 

 can now be laid on the boards when required, 

 and the difference in width of the boards will 

 give an inclination sufficient to carry off the 

 water. When hurried, I have simply driven 

 stakes in level ground, nailed the boards to 

 them, and the work was done. But it is an ad- 

 ditional protection to the plants to be twelve or 

 eighteen inches below the surface of the ground. 

 As I have picked up in our village old windows 

 and sash of different sizes, I have made my 

 boxes accordingly. 



During the last ten days of October, I fill up 

 these cold frames with lettuce, cabbage, ana 

 cauliflower plants, setting the last two named 



well in the ground down to the leaves, so that 

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