The  Home  Acre 
Hotbeds,  Cold  Frames  and  Forcing  Boxes  large  amount  of  heat,  will  be  saved.  A 
Hotbeds,  cold  frames  or  forcing  boxes  S0l'ib  or  southeast  slope,  protected  on  the 
are  handy  conveniences  in  connection  Hcrth  by  a  grove  or  building,  if  possible, 
with  the  home  garden.  Through  the  use  ^'e  best  location  for  cither  the  hotbed 
of  a  hotbed  or  cold  frame  early  plants  or  c°hl  frame. 
may  he  grown  for  transplanting,  or  crops  The  cold  frame,  which  depends  entirely 
of  radishes  and  lettuce  may  bo  had  sev-  upon  the  sun  for  its  heat,  is  built  on  the 
oral  weeks  before  the  outdoor  garden  sup-  same  plan  as  the  hotbed.  Since  no  ma- 
ply  is  ready.  Through  the  use  of  forcing  nure  is  used,  the  pit  needs  to  he  only  six 
boxes  vegetables  or  flowers  may  he  sown  (,r  eight  inches  deep.  After  the  pit  is 
or  transplanted  in  their  permanent  places  filled  three-fourths  full  of  good  rich  soil, 
- - - - — 1  the  frame  is  placed  on  and  banked  well 
around  the  outside. 
Soils  for  hotbed  or  cold  frame  give  best 
results  if  prepared  by  mixing  one-fourth 
clean  sniul  and  one-fourth  well-rotted  ma- 
mire  with  ^ ordhtary  garden  soil.  If  this 
from  sheltered  places  in  the  woods  or 
from  some  old  fence  row  or  corner.  Seed- 
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We  cut  out  tho  Agents  and  give  you  HI*  Discount 
from  Agents’  Prices.  You  save  almost  half  the  ordi¬ 
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fruit  and  ornamental  trees,  shrubs  and  small  fruit 
trees,  is  healthy,  productive  and  hilly  pedigreed. 
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high  as  ts.50  a  barrel. 
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WM.  P.  RUPERT  &  SON. 
Box  20,  Seneca.  N.  Y. 
Hotbed  With  Lath  Shading  and  Straw  Mat 
according  to  the  number  of  three-foot 
sash  to  he  used.  Sash  for  covering  the 
frame,  each  3  ft.xG  ft.,  cost  .$3.25  to 
$3.50  each. 
Fresh  horse  manure  mixed  well  with 
straw  bedding  is  used  for  filling  the  pit. 
If  the  manure  is  collected  10  days  or  two 
weeks  before  it  is  to  be  used,  and  forked 
over  several  times  in  the  meantime,  over¬ 
heating  in  the  hotbed  will  be  avoided,  A 
layer  two  feet  deep  is  tramped  firmly  in 
the  pit.  Two  or  three  inches  of  clean 
straw  is  placed  over  the  manure  to  dis¬ 
tribute  the  heat  evenly.  Six  or  eight 
inches  of  rich  soil,  preferably  one-fourth 
leaf  mold  or  well-rotted  manure  is  added. 
The  frame  is  placed  on  and  worked  down 
and  75  degrees  in  the  daytime.  Sash 
should  be  raised  to  provide  ventilation 
when  drops  of  moisture  form  on  the  un¬ 
der  side  of  the  glass. 
Forcing  boxes  are  used  to  advantage 
in  some  gardens.  Box  frames,  IS  or  24 
inches  square,  are  made  of  boards  or  gal¬ 
vanized  iron.  Each  is  covered  with  a 
pane  of  glass.  Forcing  boxes  are  used 
mainly  for  protecting  the  tender  vege¬ 
tables  which  are  not  easily  transplanted, 
as  melons,  cucumbers,  squashes  and 
sweet  corn.  A  box  is  placed  over  each 
hill  of  seeds  planted  In  its  permanent 
place  in  the  garden.  As  the  season  ad¬ 
vances  the  box  is  removed  from  the  plants 
during  the  warmer  part  of  the  day.  Each 
hill  of  plants  is  hardened  to  outdoor  con¬ 
ditions  by  removing  the  box  a  bit  longer 
each  day.  until  its  use  is  no  longer  needed, 
A  small  amount  of  glass  in  some  form 
of  forcing  fixture  is  a  great  aid  to  garden¬ 
ing.  A  suitable  place  for  growing  early 
vegetable  and  flower  plants  does  away 
with  window  and  kitchen  boxes,  which 
usually  furnish  only  a  limited  supply  of 
plants.  Several  weeks  advance  in  the 
season  of  crops  means  fresh  vegetables 
when  they  are  most  appreciated.  Depre¬ 
ciation  on  glazed  sash  each  year  is  small 
if  they  are  carefully  handled  ami  stored 
when  not  in  use.  Enough  old  lumber  may 
be  found  on  most  farms  to  make  the  hot 
bed  or  cold  frame,  and  most  of  the  work 
may  he  done  in  the  barn  or  workshops  at 
odd  hours  in  the  Winter  or  early  Spring. 
K.  L.  KIRKPATRICK. 
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today,  Hardy  stock— sure  to  grow 
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Supplied  the  Trees 
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For  76  years  the  most  suc¬ 
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DWARF  I  TREES 
Forcing  Boxes  for  Home  Garden 
two  or  three  inches  into  the  soil.  Earth 
or  strawy  manure  is  banked  against  the 
outside  of  the  frame.  After  the  soil  and 
manure  are  thoroughly  watered  and  thy 
sash  is  placed  on.  the  bed  is  let  stand  for 
a  few  days  to  become  warm ;  seeds  may 
then  be  sown  for  plants  or  permanent 
crops.  The  manner  of  sowing  seeds  in 
the  hotbed  is  essentially  the  samp  as  sow- 
iug  early  crops  out  of  doors.  The  rate  of 
Sowing  should  be  thicker  to  insure  a  good 
stand,  although  some  thinning  of  seed¬ 
lings  may  he  necessary. 
If  straw  mats,  old  carpets  or  other  ma¬ 
terial  are  thrown  over  the  hotbed  during 
the  night  and  colder  parts  of  the  day,  a 
peach  _ 
THE  VAN  DUSEN  NURSERIES. W.L. McKAY.  Prop..  Box  R,  Geneva, N.Y. 
buy  Direct  and  Saxe  Halt 
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GREEN’S  NURSERY  CO„  22  Wall  SI*  Rochester.  N.  Y, 
A  leader  has  the  following  old  volumes 
of  The  Rubai,  Nf.w-Yorkeb  bound: 
(1880.  1881,  1882,  1883,  1884.  188(5  and 
1887.)'  Also  unbound  sets  for  1888, 
1889.  1890,  1891.  1893,  1891,  1895,  1890, 
1897.  1898,  1,899,  19(i0.  1901,  1902,  1903, 
190-1,  1905,  1900,  1907.  1908,  1909,  1910, 
1911.  1912.  1913.  1914.  We  shall  be  glad 
to  give  the  address  to  tiny  otic  interested. 
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