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this kind occurs, but that it does come, and 
that when least expected, has been my experi- 
ence. 
Whenever it is necessary to use lumber for 
the frame it should be of sound stuff, free 
from knotholes, or, if these do exist, they 
should be masked with pieces of tin securely 
nailed down. 
In former years I have heen content with 
a six inch slope to the sash, but have become 
convinced that is much too little, and the new 
beds show a fall of twelve inches; this has 
proven none too much, as it sheds water far 
more perfectly than a lower pitch. The width 
of the frames will depend upon the sash, but 
should not be too wide to reach across easily, 
probably about three feet, and as long as de- 
sired. 
The pit should be dug the entire length of 
the hotbed range, and partitions used to sepa- 
rate it into as many sections as desired. In 
building the walls, if strips of inch stuff is 
tacked to the forms at the point where the 
sash meet, it will, when removed, leave a slot 
into which partitions of three-fourth inch stuff 
can readily be slipped. ‘The object of parti- 
tions is to allow the various classes of stuff 
raised in the beds to receive just the condition 
they require. Cabbage, cauliflower, asters, 
pansies, and the like require plenty of air and 
a less high temperature than tomatoes, peppers, 
eggplants and other heat loving vegetables. 
Then too, one does not care to mix up flowers, 
bulbs, cuttings and vegetables in one and the 
same bed, and the partitions give the isolation 
of separate frames. 
The usual florists’ sash are three by six feet, 
but the ordinary glass used is subject to many 
accidents and is likely to prove, in the end, an 
expensive feature of the hotbed, and I am 
now substituting a quarter inch reinforced 
ribbed glass. “This is somewhat expensive and 
has the further disadvantage of being heavy 
to handle, but that is not a serious objection 
where the sash is hinged to the frame of the 
bed with loose pin butts, and the satisfaction 
of knowing that no ordinary accident will 
break them is worth the extra expense, and 
greater warmth is afforded by their use. . 
The top of the frame should have a frame 
of two-by-four hardwood lumber bedded in 
to receive the sash. Where the hotbed is con- 
structed against a building, an excellent way 
to lift the sash is to run a strip of two-by-four 
along the face of the building above the beds, 
and attach a pulley opposite center of each 
sash, over which a cord from the sash will 
run, and raise and lower them by this means. 
The loose end of the cord should run through 
a groove in the edge of the sash and have knots 
at intervals to adjust it. 
This is the substantial, permanent form of 
hotbed construction, but let no one be deterred 
from enjoying the advantages of the beds be- 
cause a bed of this kind seems unattainable; 
excellent results may be achieved by using 
waste lumber about the place and discarded 
window sash, providing all is made tight, and 
wind, cold and vermin proof; even slight 
frames of wood made to rest on the ground 
over the pit, and put together with pegs so 
that they may be taken apart later and stored 
as lumber, the beds filled up and leveled off 
or planted to flowers, will be far and away 
ahead of no beds at all. 
If the soil is good where the beds are lo- 
cated the best of the surface soil should be 
saved to use in the beds and the rest removed. 
When the time has arrived for putting the 
beds in commission, which will be any time 
from the first of March to the first of April 
according to the latitude, secure a supply of 
fresh horse manure sufficient to fill the .entire 
pit to overflowing. This should be gathered in 
the morning from that which has accumu- 
lated over night in the stables. It should be 
