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should be six feet four inches long by three feet wide, made of three- 

 quarter inch boards. The soil should be enriched by old manure unless 

 in good order ; the object being to jjreserve and not to grow during the 

 Avinter. Give plenty of air by raising tin shutters, but on no considera- 

 tion open the Iraine or expose the plants to the suu when the ground or 

 plants are frozen. 



Very many who read this article on hot-beds and cold frames have 

 never .seen either, and are perhaps never likely to have one; to such 

 there is an excellent substitute on hand in most dwellings, in the 

 kitchen or basement windows, facing South or East, inside of which 

 is a temperature usually not far from that required for the vegetation 

 of seeds, and where seeds of early vegetables, or tender plants for the 

 flower border, may be raised nearly as well and with far less attention 

 than in a hot-bed. 



In addition to the Hot-bed frame, mats or shutters will be required 

 to cover the sash during cold days and nights. To work the garden, 

 the necessary implements — spade, fork, shovel, rakes, hoes, trowel, 

 garden -line and reel, watering pot, and wheelbarrow, are the most im- 

 portant. 



KoTATTON OF CROPS. — We are convinced of the importance of a 

 regular rotation of the Esculent crops. To convey the idea briefly, we 

 present a diagram of the garden as laid out to secure this result. 



y 



NORTH 



r 



BORDER 



M.W. 



A 



3 



B 



SOUTH 



BORDER 



CL 



A, B, C & D, four compartments in which to plant various crops, 

 alternately ; cr to 7, small compartments round the border for nur.^ing 

 })lants, sweet herb«, and setting out permanent beds of As[)aragus, 

 Artichoke, Rhubarb, etc. The I)order facing South should be protected 

 on the North side by a close board fence or wall, and will be found 

 usei'ul for sov.'ing early Ilailish, Lettuce, Beets, &c., and setting out 

 Tomatoes, Egcx-])Iants, etc. The waved line re))resents a grajjc trellis; 

 the entrance is at E. This plan may be carried out in a garden of 

 greater or less extent. 



