CHAPTBE V 



HOTBEDS AND COLDFRAMES 



Hotbeds and coldframes are both very useful in school 

 gardening as well as in home gardening (Fig. 36). 



By the use of these some gardening can be kept up all 

 the' winter season. No one need then object to school garden 

 work on the pleajthat many schools are not in session during 

 the best garden -season. When there are hotbeds and cold- 

 frames, winter is one of the best garden seasons. 



Fia. 26. — A hotbed of suitable size for a home garden, 6 by 6 feet. These sashes 

 are of lap glass. 



Uses.?:— With the opening of the fall term of school, pupils 

 start a number of suitable kinds of plants in the coldframes. 

 Here they are protected from cold nights and from frosts dur- 

 ing the fall months and from the cold days of early winter. 



These coldframe crops, or nearly all of them, may be grown 

 and harvested by January (Kg. 37). A little later the cold- 

 frames may be transformed into hotbeds, as described farther 

 on in this chapter. 



In the middle of winter or very early spring the hotbeds 

 should be prepared, and seeds, cuttings, bulbs, and plants .of 

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