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covered with three or four inches of snow after having been set 

 out, to grow without receiving injury, while hot- bed plants would 

 have been destroyed. Cabbages so treated, will be ready for mar^ 

 ket one month earlier than those from hot-beds, and are less liable 

 to become clump rooted when raised from good seed. In these 

 cold frames, by the plants being placed at equal distances apart, 

 they have an /jpportumty of doing well, instead of spindling, as 

 when crowded in hot-beds. 



Market gardeners understand the value of these cold fram« 

 plants so well, that they will pay for them one dollar a hundred 

 in early spring, in preference to paying eighteen cents for hot-bed 

 plants. 



The same plan may be used for summer cauliflowers, and even 

 broccoli, which is a great advantage. We all know that cauli- 

 flowers will not give full flower in very hot weather; but with 

 very early cold frame plants we may have early summer cauli- 

 flowers, and therefore we are -compelled to raise them at such 

 dates as will cause their heading to either precede or occur after 

 the hottest weather. 



With the cold frames, we may raise plants from many seeds, 

 that we cannot succeed with in hot-beds or ordinary out-door cul- 

 ture. For instance, if rhubarb seed be sown in the spring, it can- 

 not withstand the hotsuu, and therefore but few plants ever arrive 

 at maturity, so as to be able to put them in place j but in cold 

 frames, letting them get up before the winter, every seed will 

 germinate, and by being covered with shutters every plant may be 

 preserved during winter. In the spring these plants will be ready 

 for use; indeed, you may succeed pretty well by raising the plants 

 from the seed out-doors in the fall, and by covering with brush* 

 may shade and prevent suddeji thawing during winter. The 

 plants generally will be found lying on the surface of the ground 

 in spring, having been thrown out by the frost during winter, and 

 they must be dibbled in; not so with those raised in the cold 

 frames. 



It is well known that rhubarb plants have been sold by nursery- 

 men at very high prices ; two and three cents an eye have been 

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