1904 
83 
EVERYBODY'S GARDEN. 
Notes on Hotbeds. —The question as 
to what can be grown in a hotbed often 
arises. Very much depends upon the 
kind of plants grown and how closely 
the space is occupied. For purposes of 
comparison a 5%xl2-foot hotbed was 
used and the kinds of plants were 
onions for transplanting, tomato, let¬ 
tuce, radish, beets, cabbage, cauliflower, 
cucumber and melon. With the hotbed 
must also be included a cold frame 
same size. The bed was sown April 1 
as follows: One sash onions, two to¬ 
matoes and one lettuce, cabbage, cauli¬ 
flower and radish. The onion seed, of 
course, was sown very late (which was 
bad practice), and the plants occupied 
the space until too late for further use. 
All seeds were sown four inches apart 
in drills. The tomatoes were trans¬ 
planted when the second set of leaves 
appeared and simply occupied the same 
space as when standing in the drills. 
May 3-4 300 plants were potted and re¬ 
moved to the cold frame and the re¬ 
mainder were left in the bed until sold 
or otherwise disposed of. The potted 
plants were all used at home, and by an 
accident 150 of these were destroyed 
after planting in the open ground. 
These were replaced from the hotbed 
and the remainder mostly sold by the 
dozen, brought $7.50. A portion of the 
cold frame, by filling and banking with 
manure, was used for hotbed into which 
the cabbage, cauliflower and lettuce 
were transferred from time to time. Of 
the cabbage and cauliflower plants 200 
were planted out and the rest sold for 
80 cents. The first radishes were ready 
for use April 17, and 32 bunches were 
grown at 62 cents. These were follow¬ 
ed by beets for transplanting. As the 
lettuce and cabbage plants were trans¬ 
ferred to the second bed the space was 
used for cucumber and melon plants 
started in berry boxes. Forty-six in all 
were thus.put in and later were trans¬ 
ferred to the cold frame. Of the beets, 
sufficient were grown to set 200 feet of 
drill and onion plants enough to set 30x 
40 feet of space. The lettuce sold dur¬ 
ing the month of May amounted to 
$3.50. Considerable was also planted in 
the open ground of which no account is 
taken. These results are not to be taken 
as the maximum or minimum, but rath¬ 
er a medium of what may be accom¬ 
plished with the hotbed and cold frame. 
With more experience now than then, I 
feel pretty sure I could do considerably 
better. The beds had only ordinary care 
and an earlier start would very likely 
have added considerable to the amount 
grown. There comes a time when plants 
will no longer thrive well in the hot¬ 
bed, but will do much better in the open 
ground. So generally speaking, there 
is much to be gained by an early start. 
For the kitchen garden where only a 
bed or two will be found practical then, 
of course, the time of starting must be 
arranged to accommodate the greatest 
variety of plants. One kind will require 
more time than some other, and hold¬ 
ing plants in the beds after they are 
ready to go out for soil and weather 
conditions to become favorable is poor 
practice. Onions for instance, for best 
results should have gone in four to six 
weeks earlier than April 1. as also let¬ 
tuce and early cabbage. For extra ear¬ 
ly the tomatoes should have been start¬ 
ed at least by March 15. Two crops of 
radishes might easily have been grown 
also. But these dates are hardly prac¬ 
tical for the kitchen garden where bed 
space is limited, and what the gardener 
with ample facilities may do must not 
be taken as a profitable basis for the or¬ 
dinary farm garden. We would by no 
means discourage the farmers from 
using all the hotbeds possible, and the 
more the better as so many table rel¬ 
ishes may be so cheaply grown, and at 
a time when they are so thoroughly rel¬ 
ished. Most farmers go without them, 
and still with every convenience at 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
hand, while their city neighbors have 
them and to spare without so much as 
a hand’s turn toward the labor of pro¬ 
ducing them. Maybe we will grow 
wiser by and by, and see to it that we 
ourselves enjoy some of these bounties 
when they are so easily accessible. Bet¬ 
ter thus than to allow the dwellers in 
the cities to monopolize all the good 
things of the earth. J. E. morse. 
Michigan. _ 
Teacher: “Where is your brother this 
morning, Tommy?’’ Tommy: “He fell 
in a barrel of cider and hurt himself. ’ 
Teacher: “How could cider hurt him?’ 
Tommy: “It was hard cider, ma’am.”— 
Chicago News. 
Mabel: “There’s Mr. Stubbs. He’s the 
only farmer on record who has made his 
money out of weeds.” George: “He 
surely didn’t do that?” Mabel: “Yes, he 
did.” George: “How, pray?” Mabel: 
“Married a widow.”—The Australasian. 
Head Master: “That essay of yours 
was a positive disgrace. 1 was so 
ashamed of it that I felt it my duty to 
send it to your father!” Pupil: ‘T am 
jolly glad you did.” Master: “Why?” 
Pupil: “’Cos father wrote it!”—Mel¬ 
bourne Leader. 
A small parishioner in Aberdeen 
brought a basket of strawberries to the 
minister very early on Monday morning. 
“Thank you, my little girl,” he said, 
“they are very beautiful. But I hope 
you didn’t gather them yesterday, which 
was the Sabbath day?” "No, sir,” re¬ 
plied the child, “I picked them this 
morning. But they was growin’ all yes¬ 
terday.”—Credit Lost. 
Visitor: “You must have a remark¬ 
ably efficient Board of Health in this 
town.” Shrewd Native (one of the 
many): “You are right about that, I can 
tell you.” “Composed of scientists, 1 
presume?” “No, sir. Scientists are too 
theoretical.” "Physicians, perhaps?” 
“Not much. We don’t allow doctors on 
our Board of Health—no, sir—nor un¬ 
dertakers, either.” “Hum! What sort of 
men have you chosen, then?” “Life in¬ 
surance agents.”—New York Weekly. 
There are a great many hungry hearted 
women who would attend a baby sale if 
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children and have been told by physi¬ 
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a child of their own. 
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