HOUSE AND GARDEN 
March, 
1914 
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rather than the plants.) The same pro¬ 
cedure is followed with the second plant¬ 
ing, the tenderer things, and these will be 
ready to go into “C” shortly after the 
former lot can be set in the open ground. 
As soon as they begin to crowd in the 
flats they should be given a second trans¬ 
planting. 
Tbe other part of the work — getting 
crops ready to use in the frames as 
soon as possible — should also begin just 
as soon as the soil in them can be pre¬ 
pared. Go to some near-by florist or 
market-gardener, and get a few dozen 
lettuce and beet plants and a dozen or 
two of tomatoes, and set out one frame 
of lettuce, putting the plants seven or 
eight inches each way, which will take 
about four dozen. Half a frame of beets 
may be set out in rows ten to twelve 
inches apart, the plants three or four 
inches in the row; and half a frame of 
radishes and carrots, making the rows 
four inches apart, and sowing every third 
row to carrots, or six inches apart, every 
other row carrots; in the former case 
some very small variety of radish, such 
as Scarlet Globe, French Breakfast, or 
Rapid Red, but with the rows six inches 
apart, Giant Crimson Globe, or some 
other similar sort, may be used, and 
where only a supply for the home table 
is required, this will be more satisfactory, 
as the crop will remain in good condi¬ 
tion very much longer. For the carrots, 
Nantes and Chantenay are both good for 
this purpose. As soon as the first lot of 
seedling is ready to transplant, the glass 
sash is removed from “C” to “B,” and 
the cloth sash used in its place. 
These crops will all be ready a long¬ 
time before those from the open ground, 
and removed in time to fill the frames 
again with melons, cucumbers and pole 
lima beans already started in the hotbed. 
Tomatoes, set 18 x 24 inches, which will 
allow six to a frame, are set out in “A” 
as soon as room can be made for them. 
They will require only part of the space 
for the first two or three weeks. Each 
one should be trained to a single stem, 
pinching out all suckers as soon as they 
appear, and enough foliage cut out to 
allow plenty of sunshine and air to reach 
the fruit clusters. One or two hills of 
melons or cucumbers to each frame will 
be enough; the vines may be cut back at 
three or four feet, or trained out over 
the frames. The new bush musk-melon 
and bush squash may be used, — two hills 
to a frame. 
Of course, the various crops growing 
in the frames will require careful looking 
after in the way of watering, ventilation, 
protection from insects, cultivation, etc. 
These things cannot be left to “Nature,” 
as they can with outdoor crops. Also, 
as the plants are put closer together than 
they are outdoors, and consequently make 
a more severe drain on the plant food in 
the soil, a top-dressing with nitrate of 
soda, or a watering with liquid manure, 
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