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hands, without any help from either carpenter 

 or glazier, it will be necessary merely for me to 

 say, that the Frame is of the best shape when it 

 is eighteen inches deep at the back and nine 

 inches deep at the front. This gives slofie enough, 

 and especially in a country where there is so 

 little rainy weather. The Frame is the wood 

 work, on which the Lights, or glass-work, are 

 laid. There needs no more than a good look at 

 a thing of this sort to know how to make it, or 

 to order it to be made. And, as it is useless to 

 make a hot-bed without having the Frame and 

 the Lights ready, I shall suppose them to be 

 prepared. I suppose a three-light Frame, four 

 feet wide and nine feet long, which, of course, 

 will make every Light three feet wide and four 

 long ; because, the long way of the light fits, 

 of course, the cross way of the Frame. 



72. Now, then, to the work of making the bed. 

 The front of the bed is, of course, to be full 

 South , so that the noon sun may come right upon 

 the glass. The length and width of the bed 

 must be those of the Frame. Therefore, take 

 the Frame itself, and place it on the sfiot which 

 you mean the bed to stand on. See that you have 

 it rightly placed ; and then, with a pointed stick, 

 make a mark in the ground all round the outside 

 of the Frame. Then take the Frame away. 

 Then take some sharp-pointed straight stakes, 

 and drive them in the ground, at each corner of 

 this marked-out place for the bed, and one or two 

 on the back and on the front side. Let these be 

 about four feet high. They are to be your 

 guides in building the bed; and, they ought, 

 therefore; to be very straight, and to be placed 



