CONTENTS 



Chapter III — Continued 



CAGE 



The Need of Garden Records ... 91 



Can You Devise a Better One? 91 



A Vest-pocket Garden Record System 92 



Early Plants Without a Hotbed . 96 



Big Returns from Eight Dollars 98 



Cutting Down Seed Expehse .... . 98 



More Than Six Hundred Per Cent. Returns 99 



How to Make the Garden Plan Practical .... 99 

 Complete Culfural Directions in Tabular Form 100-104 



;:^ CHAPTER IV 



Getting the Most Oct of Frames and Hotbeds . 105 



The Difference Between "Coldframes" and "Hot- 

 beds" . , . . 106 



How to Bui'd a Hotbed .... 107 



A New Method for Hardening Hotbed Plants no 



Hotbed Mats • in 



A Home-made Straw Mat ... in 



Building the Coldframe .... 114 



The Entire Management of a Coldframe . . 116 

 Preparatiofi. Sowing. Ventilating. Watering. 

 Transplanjing. Hardening off . Lettuce. Toma- 

 toes. Peppers. Beets. Carrots. Eggplant. 

 Onions. Leeks. Beans. Parsley. Spinach. 

 Celery. Cauliflower. Cabbage. Peas. 



CHAPTER V 



A Year's Cycle in the Garden 133 



The Planning Season: December to February . 133 



January. — The Garden Plan. Some General 

 Advice. Seeds and Yields for a Definite Area. 

 Transplanted Vegetables. When, Where and 

 What to Transplant. Catalogues and Seedsmen. 

 Good Seed. Kinds and Varieties. Keeping 



