. Complete farmer's guide. Agriculture; Farm life. [from old catalog]. Fio. 125. Tomato-plants ready for setting in the field. Note the large amount of soil carried with the roots. are convenient sizes. They should be nar- row enough to enable one to reach across easily. Where manure is not used and no bottom heat is pro- vided, such a frame is called a cold-frame. At times these are covered with cloth instead of glass. The hot-bed and cold-frame offer protection not only against cold but to some extent against insect pests. Plants that are started in such frames are tender and must be gradual
. Complete farmer's guide. Agriculture; Farm life. [from old catalog]. Fio. 125. Tomato-plants ready for setting in the field. Note the large amount of soil carried with the roots. are convenient sizes. They should be nar- row enough to enable one to reach across easily. Where manure is not used and no bottom heat is pro- vided, such a frame is called a cold-frame. At times these are covered with cloth instead of glass. The hot-bed and cold-frame offer protection not only against cold but to some extent against insect pests. Plants that are started in such frames are tender and must be gradually hardened by first raising and later taking off the covering on mild days, thus by degrees exposing the plants to the weather. Any one can make a hot-bed, and the ex- pense is so small that every family can have one. 212. Transplanting. —You have learned that in transplanting the delicate root hairs are usually torn from the roots as they are Fig. 126. Handy box for use in seeding or IP ,1 .. when plants are transplanted while in hot-bed taken irom tne sou, in order to increase their 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 Kyle, Edwin Jackson. [from old catalog]; Ellis, Alexander Caswell, 1871- [from old catalog] joint author. New York, Chicago [etc. ] C. Scribner's sons
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