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easily restore it, thus : make a little narrow hot- 

 bed, a foot and a hal f ivide, all round the bed. 

 Put the dung together as before ; place it close 

 to the bed; beat it well ; and build it up, all round, 

 as high as the top of the Frame. This is called 

 lining ; and it will give the bed nearly as much 

 heat as it had at first. If you do not want so 

 much heat, line only the back of the bed; or the 

 back and the two ends. In short, take as much 

 heat as you may want. 



94. Before I dismiss the subject of hot beds, 

 I must notice, that there are otker contrivances 

 than frames resorted to in this kind of garden 

 work. A frame is, as we here see, a wooden 

 construction, for lights of glass to be placed on. 

 For smaller concerns there are very convenient 

 things, called hand lights or hand-glasses. A^ 

 hand-glas? is a square glass-house in miniature 

 Its sides are about eight inches high from the 

 ground to the eves. The roof rises from each 

 side in a triangular form, so that it comes to a 

 point at the top, as a pyramid does, the base of 

 ^ hich is a square. At this point is a stout ring^ 

 to lift the hand-glass about by. The panes of 

 glass are fixed in lead; and the rim round the 

 bottom is made of iron or of wood. Any gla- 

 zier can make these hand-lights, and they are 

 by no means expensive. Here, where the tax 

 upon glass is so slight, they cannot be more 

 expensive than in England ; and there they do 

 not cost much more than a dollar each. They 

 may be made of almost any size. About IS 

 inches square at the base is a very good size. In 

 the gardens near London there are acres of 

 ground covered witty such glasses. It is the 



