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ordinar}' liot-ljed sash, gives a hand}', permanent, yet very 

 cheap structure that will prove very useful for the starting 

 of the tender vegetables and liowers. The hot-bed rejire- 

 sented has the space below the soil filled with manure. 

 The only change needed for hot-water or steam heating is 

 putting in l)oards or slate to supjiort the soil, which in 

 the figirre rests on the manure. The management is 

 given in section (0.5) with manure heating. 



In growing tomato, egg-plant, or other plants in hot- 

 beds they should be transplanted in " flats,'" Fig. 105, or, 



Fig. 105.— a "flat " ]iLiiitcd willi lettuce to be held in the cold- 

 frame for early family use. (After Green.) 



better yet, in pots. A main element of success is a supplv 

 of stocky, well-rooted plants, and a potted plant with root.s 

 encased in a liall of eai'th can 1)0 transplanted safely at any 

 time. But the most favoralile time for all vegetable or 

 flower transplanting is on cloudy days, or after four 

 o'clock P.M. in clear weat.her, a,s after that time the air is 

 not so dry and the plants have the benelit of the cool night 

 to become establisluMl. 'I'lio novice usuallv fails in 

 ])ro])erly Arming the soil uJiout tiie I'oots and crown so 

 well thai, the plant cannot I'cadily lie ])u]led. The di'ier 

 the soil the more firmly plauts should be set. 



