. An encyclopædia of gardening; . rally employed to fill these pits, is a mixture of new horse andcow dung : sometimes we use tree leaves and short grass, which do very well, provided they be duly pre-pared, by throwing them up in a high heap, to remain eight or ten days, that they may ferment to anequal temperature. To maintain seventy degrees of heat with horse and cow dung, or leaves of trees isno difficult matter, and it is easy to preserve the plants in health, and in a fruitful state during theseverest winter, by covering the pits with mats in time of frost. {Caled. Hort. Mem. iii. 336.)
. An encyclopædia of gardening; . rally employed to fill these pits, is a mixture of new horse andcow dung : sometimes we use tree leaves and short grass, which do very well, provided they be duly pre-pared, by throwing them up in a high heap, to remain eight or ten days, that they may ferment to anequal temperature. To maintain seventy degrees of heat with horse and cow dung, or leaves of trees isno difficult matter, and it is easy to preserve the plants in health, and in a fruitful state during theseverest winter, by covering the pits with mats in time of frost. {Caled. Hort. Mem. iii. 336.) 2686. The common hot-bed frame is generally from four to five feet wide within, andfrom nine to twelve feet long, divided into three or four lights or sashes. The back isgenerally double the height of the front, so that the slope of the glass is seldom morethan ten degrees. Knight, with great correctness of principle, considers this as too flatto admit the suns rays in the winter season, and recommends a basis of earth sloped to.
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