"Give me the secret of the sun, 

 Thereby the world is ever run." 



HOT-BEDS 



For a small garden you can make a double 

 bed, cover one-half with a glass sash the other 

 with an open lath frame. Size of hot-bed 3x6 

 feet. 



Use the bed covered with glass to start the 

 seed and the frame to make them hardy, before 

 planting out in the garden. Sow the seed in 

 small shallow boxes and place on the ground 

 under the glass in hot-bed. You will find 

 cherry or currant boxes the right size. This 

 method is more convenient for moving the 

 plants from the hot-bed to garden than plant- 

 ing the seeds in the ground in the hot-bed. 

 Use leaf mould, sand and a little well-rotted 

 manure in your seed boxes. If you put the 

 soil thus prepared in a hot oven it will kill 

 the weed germs, worms and life of any kind 

 and you will not be troubled with weeds grow- 

 ing up with your seed. 



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