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:oom-Corn and Brooms 50 



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i^ery Woman Her Own Flower Gardener 1 00 



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Hand Book of Plants 



Hop Culture. New and Revised Edition 



The Language of Flowers 



Onions — How to Raise Them Profitably 



Purdy's Small Fruit Instructor 



Roe's Play and Profit in My Garden 



Sugar Canes. Their Culture and Manufacture. . 



Stoddard's An Egtr Farm ... 



Text Book on Silk Culture 



Thomas" American Fruit Culturist. New Edition 

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ti[OW TO MAKE lIOT-BEDS AND COLD FRAMES 



HOT-BEDS. The hot-bed is made by forming a pile of horse manure with the straw used for bedding or 

 aves, some three feet in height, and about 12 or 18 inches larger all around than the size of the frame to be 

 :ed. Shake all together, so that the straw and manure will be equally mixed. It may be sunk in the ground 

 foot or eighteen inches, or made on the surface. Place the frame on soon as the bed is made, and' fill in 

 ith about 5 or 6 inches of good mellow soil, keeping the frame closed for a few days until fermentation takes 

 ace and the soil is quite warm. It is better to wait a day or two after this and then sow the seeds. The 

 amecan be constructed by any handy man at very small expense. It consists of a wooden frame, from 3 to 

 feet wide, and from 6 to' 16 feet long, according to the supply of vegetables or flowers required. The back 

 de should be at least 6 inches higher than the front — the frame sub-divided by cross-bars and each division 

 )vered by a glazed sash. The frame should face the South or Southeast. From the time the seed is sown, 

 tention 'to airing and shading during the hot part of the day, and covering up at night, is essential, and 

 so that the soil be never allowed to get dry. The watering should be done Avith a very fine rose watering 

 )t, and with tepid water. The temperature at night mav range from 55 to 65 degrees, and during the day 

 om 70 to 80. 



COLD FRAMES. A cold frame is so easy in construction and management as to be available to all. 

 his is simply a hot-bed frame with glazed sash, placed upon a bed of fine mellow earth, in some sheltered 

 ace in the garden. After the frame is secured in its place, a couple of inches of fine earth should be placed 

 side, and the frame closed up a day or two before the seeds are planted. As the cold frame depends upon 

 ic sun for its warmth, it must not be started as soon as the hot-oed, and in this latitude the latter part of April 

 soon enough. Watering occasionally will be necessary, and air must be given in bright warm days, 

 lade is also necessary. 



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