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consists a large part of the work, and 

 the expense of transplanting will not 

 be less than $50 per acre; but Mr. 

 Greiner claims that this is fully made 

 up in the saving of hand weeding and 

 thinning out, which results from this 

 mode of treatment. The plants are set 

 out four inches apart in the rows, and 

 twelve inches between the rows, the 



"fiIiQ-plants at six weeks. g^O""d to be first marked out in two 



ways and the plants set out with a dibble. 

 This book of Mr. Greiner.s is very cheap, and like his " How to make the 

 Garden pay," must prove of great value to market gardeners. 



HOME-MADE, BUT THE THING. 



I HAVE had experience with several kinds of artificially heated hot-beds. 

 But this cut illustrates the best thing I have tried. Besides being cheaply 

 built it seldom gets out of order. My bed has a brick fire-box, with drain tile 

 for flues. I located it on a strip of ground sloping to the south-west, with a fall 

 of nearly one foot to the rod. Here I staked out the bed five feet wide and of 

 the desired length. To lay the flues the earth was dug out two feet deep at the 

 lower end and graded up to eight or ten inches deep at the upper. This 

 made the heat at the surface of the bed about even, as the flues would 

 naturally give out more heat nearer to the furnace. The tiles were then 

 laid for the flues about a foot from the sides, and the earth filled back again with 

 rich loam, the same as for any bed. The furnace I made two feet wide, and 

 twenty inches high to the top of the arch, while the fire-box was nearly five feet 

 long, so as to admit cord-wood without cutting. Instead of using mortar with 

 the brick, clear clay was used, as this becomes brick when burned. An opening 

 was left about one foot square at the rear of the furnace to admit the flues side 

 by side, which was then made tight. . The bottom of the fire-box is four or five 

 inches lower than the flues, so that the ends of the flues will not choke up with 

 ashes. In laying the tile cover the joints with sods to prevent the earth from 

 sifting in. In building another I would advise using fire-brick clay tile, as I 

 have found that the heat sometimes makes the drain tile crumble. Any kind of 

 a covering can be made for such a bed. My plan is to set posts in the ground, 

 to which boards eighteen inches wide are nailed on the north side and six inches 

 on the south. If this frame is covered with rnuslin it will answer every purpose. 

 I hardly think tw - flues of this k'ind would heat a bed six feet wide, though they 

 do nicely in one of five feet. Three flues are hard to control because one is 

 likely to get more than its share of heat. Five-foot beds can be covered with 



