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There are three other reasons why you should 

 have a coldf rame : 



(i) You can have lettuce, radishes and spinach 

 a good part of the winter. 



(2) You can have the choicest foxglove, lark- 

 spur and cosmos only by aid of a coldframe. 



(3) The highest qualities of pansies, violets, 

 English daisies, polyanthus, and auricula are flow- 

 ered only in a coldframe, where you may have them 

 between February and April. 



Difference between "Hotbed" and "Coldframe" 

 There is often confusion caused by the use of 

 the terms "hotbed" and "coldframe" and direc- 

 tions for their use. The former refers strictly 

 to a pit or box-like structure, covered with glass 

 sashes, and given warmth by fermenting manure 

 under the soil. It is used for starting seeds for 

 early plants; in other words it is primarily a seed- 

 bed and not a place in which to mature vegetables. 

 The coldframe is similar in construction but is 

 not heated by manure and contains a deeper soil, 

 richer, and in which plants and flowers can be 

 matured, or kept in a growing condition. The 

 change from the former to the latter could be 

 accomplished by merely mixing the soil and manure 

 thoroughly and, perhaps, removing some of the 

 manure, which for the coldframe must not be 

 fresh or "green". A change in the opposite di- 

 rection would result if after using a coldframe 

 for fall and winter purposes, you were to run steam- 

 pipes or some other means for heating it into the 

 bed in early spring, as described below, or remove 



