AMERICAN HOME GARDEN. 29 



Fig. 3. eighteen inches deep at the back, and 



nine inches at the front, the ends be- 

 ing gradually sloped to suit. A con- 

 venient width is about five and a half 

 feet, though this may vary. The 

 frame is divided by cross-bars three 

 inches wide, notched into the upper 

 edges of the back and front of the frame at say three feet one 

 inch apart from centre to centre, with a thin centre-board or 

 sash-guide standing edgewise, from an inch and a half to three 

 inches high, along each, the two ends of the frame having 

 strips nailed on to serve the purpose, as directed for pit, p. 27. 

 Frames are sometimes made to hold three or four sashes, but 

 it is more convenient to handle those made for only two, sev- 

 eral pairs of which can be set together, if a longer bed is re- 

 quired. 



The frame is carefully and strongly nailed together, or each 

 part is cleated at the corners, and drawn closely together with 

 hooks or links and staples, so as to be readily taken apart. 



To suit the dimensions of the frame named above, the sashes, 

 which should be of inch and a half stuff, require to be about 

 five feet nine inches long and three feet wide, having either 

 five rows of six-inch glass or six rows of five-inch, in either 

 case each sash containing about fifteen feet of glass. This 

 should be of good quality, flat, and strong, and in the process 

 of glazing the panes should overlap as little as possible, say 

 one fourth of an inch at the most ; or, if the glass be of superior 

 make, the width of the lap need not exceed the thickness of 

 the pane. 



The garden-frame so made and sashed is used to form of 

 itself a cold bed, or to place upon a hot bed for the purpose of 

 raising early plants, &c. 



COLD BED. 



A cold bed is made by simply setting a garden-frame (Fig. 

 3, above) in a favorable spot for your purpose, whetner you 

 desire sun or shade ; or it may be stationary, and provision 

 made for shading it at will. For winter protection it should 



