. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. Fig. 5.âCopper Frame in one piece. Fig. 6.âIron Frame in one piece. Hand-lights. Fig. 7.âMovable Top placed to admit aii-. lettuce, and endive or salad plant has its cloche ; and the large, sweet, crisp produce from under them affords the highest possible testimony to their fos- tering power in accelerating and enlarging growth. Their effect on quality is equally striking, perhaps even more so, while they reduce the time from the start to the finish to the shortest possible limits. Hithei-to the stimulating influences of cloches and bell-glasses have b
. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. Fig. 5.âCopper Frame in one piece. Fig. 6.âIron Frame in one piece. Hand-lights. Fig. 7.âMovable Top placed to admit aii-. lettuce, and endive or salad plant has its cloche ; and the large, sweet, crisp produce from under them affords the highest possible testimony to their fos- tering power in accelerating and enlarging growth. Their effect on quality is equally striking, perhaps even more so, while they reduce the time from the start to the finish to the shortest possible limits. Hithei-to the stimulating influences of cloches and bell-glasses have been mostly confined to the culti- vation of salads and such vegetables as Cucumbers and Cauliflowers in the open air. Probably they have a yet greater field of usefulness before them in the future, in connection with the fostering of early spring flowers and the protection of semi-tender plants, and perhaps the culture of hardier varieties of Melons in the open air. Their usefulness in raising seeds in the open has long been recognised. tion, unless for such common things as Pinks, Cloves, and Carnations, pipings of which root rapidly â under hand-lights. The old-fashioned hand-lights (Figs. 5 and 6) were made in one piece, the ribs being formed of iron, copper, zinc, or lead. On the whole, iron is best as being the most durable, but copper was generally used at one time, the base and the upper side of the vertical portion being formed of iron. Now the entire framework is generally formed of iron, the upper side of the sash-bars being rebated so as to receive the glass. But dry glazing in horti- culture was first applied to hand-glasses, and is still practised in the formation of such caps or hand- glasses as those illustrated in Figs. 5 and 6. In all these, and several other forms that might be de- scribed, the whole of the hand-light, when finished,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability
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