. The American home garden. Being principles and rules for the culture of vegetables, fruits, flowers, and shrubbery. To which are added brief notes on farm crops, with a table of their average product and chemical constituents. Gardening. AMERICAN HOME GAEDEN. 29 rig. 3. * eighteen inches deep at the back, and nine inches at the front, the ends be- ing gradually sloped to suit. A con- venient width is about five and a half feet, though this may vary. The frame is divided by cross-bars three inches wide, notched into the upper edges of the back and front of the frame at say three feet one inch
. The American home garden. Being principles and rules for the culture of vegetables, fruits, flowers, and shrubbery. To which are added brief notes on farm crops, with a table of their average product and chemical constituents. Gardening. AMERICAN HOME GAEDEN. 29 rig. 3. * eighteen inches deep at the back, and nine inches at the front, the ends be- ing gradually sloped to suit. A con- venient width is about five and a half feet, though this may vary. The frame is divided by cross-bars three inches wide, notched into the upper edges of the back and front of the frame at say three feet one inch apart frona centre to centre, with a thin centre-board or sash-guido standing edgewise, from an inch and a half to three inches high, along each, the two ends of the frame having strips nailed on to servo the purpose, as directed for pit, p. 27. Frames are sometimes made to hold thi-ce or fom- sashes, but it is more convenient to handle those made for only two, sev- eral pairs of which can be set together, if a longer bed is re- quired. The frame is carefully and strongly nailed together, or each part is cleated at the corners, and drawn closely together with hooks or links and staples, so as to be readily taken apart. To suit the dimensions of the frame named above, the sashes, which should be of inch and a half stuff, require to bo about five feet nine inches long and three feet wide, having either five rows of six-inch glass or six rows of five-inch, in either case each sash containing about fifteen feet of glass. This should be of good quality, flat, and strong, and in the process of glazing the panes should overlap as little as possible, say one fourth of an inch at the most; or, if the glass be of superior make, the width of the lap need not exceed the thickness of the pane. The garden-frame so made and sashed is used to form of itself a cold bed, or to place upon a hot bed for the pm-pose of raising early plants, &c. COLD BED. A cold bed is made by simply setting a
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