. Biggle garden book; vegetables, small fruits and flowers for pleasure and profit. Gardening; Vegetable gardening. HOTBEDS AND COLDFRAMES 21 they are simply built on top of the ground and no manure is used, heat being furnished by the rays of the sun. Sash for Hotbeds and Coldframes.—It is more convenient to use sash which are not very large, continues R. L. Watts. We have in use four hun- dred 3x6 foot sash, and we believe a larger size would be of no advantage, but rather a disadvantage. Our preference for thickness is one and three- eighths inches. The best material is cypress or cedar. If
. Biggle garden book; vegetables, small fruits and flowers for pleasure and profit. Gardening; Vegetable gardening. HOTBEDS AND COLDFRAMES 21 they are simply built on top of the ground and no manure is used, heat being furnished by the rays of the sun. Sash for Hotbeds and Coldframes.—It is more convenient to use sash which are not very large, continues R. L. Watts. We have in use four hun- dred 3x6 foot sash, and we believe a larger size would be of no advantage, but rather a disadvantage. Our preference for thickness is one and three- eighths inches. The best material is cypress or cedar. If quite a number of sash are to be used, it is more economical to do the glazing at home. Pamt the sash before glazing, using ___ a liberal supply of oil in the white lead. After the paint is dry, the glazing may be begun. It is best to procure single-strength A glass rather than cheap- er grades. There should the hotbed should be shel- be three runs of 10x12 tered from cold winds by . - . WALL, FENCE OR WINDBREAK glass, each run requirmg six panes, or eighteen panes per sash. Overlap the panes about one-fourth inch. Secure the glass at each lap by the smallest-sized glazing points. After driving in the points, apply putty or mastica. After this hardens, paint the sash again. Fire Hotbeds.—In some sections nearly all the market gardeners use fire hotbeds, says E. R. Jin- nette. It is neither difficult nor expensive to make a fire bed. The bed is warmed by two flues extend- ing from the fire-box or furnace. In clay soils the flues are often simply trenches cut in the soil six or eight inches deep, the width of a spade at the bottom and eight or ten inches at the top. They are covered. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Biggle, Jacob. Philadelphia, W. Atkinson Co. , 1912
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