THE HOTBED AND THE COLDFRAME 



Likewise the coldframe serves the garden-maker 

 as a winter protection for tender plants that will not 

 stand wintering in the North, while very often it hap- 

 pens that the hotbed becomes overcrowded. In this 

 event the coldframe is an especially valuable adjunct 

 to its usefulness inasmuch as the plants from the 

 thinned-out hotbed need not be lost, but instead 

 may be saved by being set into the coldframe for 

 intermediary growth against the time when the natural 

 outdoor garden is ready to receive them. 



Coldframe with double sash. 



As their cold-proof qualities is their reason for 

 being, these coldframes, no matter how simple, must 

 be carefully, constructed in order that the parts where 

 there is any joinery may be weather-proof. The 

 accompanying illustration will show, at once, the ^ort 

 of a structure the garden beginner may require for 

 his initial experiments with early-raising. Not only 

 will the hotbed and coldframe serve the grower of 

 early vegetables, but will also promote the success of 

 the flower garden, and make possible earlier flowers, 



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