HOT-BEDS. 



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Egg-plants and Peppers require more heat and 

 less air than Cabbages, Cauliflowers, Tomatoes, or 

 Lettuce. 



Wben Tomato plants are two inches high, they 

 should be pricked out into another frame. Those 

 who make a business of growing Tomatoes in a large 

 way, for market, transplant them twice before set- 

 ting them out in the field. Each time that they are 

 moved from one bed to another, more room is given 

 in order to get short, stocky plants. 



Egg-plants will do better, producing more fi-uit, 

 and earlier, if transplanted or put into " thumb-pots," 

 and placed in beds made like a hot-bed, only using 

 less manure. 



The beds should be watered with tepid water 

 when the surface becomes dry. In April the plants 

 will require water every day. 



WATEKrNG POT. 



There are few neighborhoods where enough plants 

 cannot be sold to more than pay the expenses of mak- 

 ing and caring for the bed. When the young plants 



