. Dreer's garden book : seventy-third annual edition 1911. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. Frame to Carry Sash of Hotbed or Cold Frame as Illustrated in Bulletin No. 195, Corbett, Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. water moderately through a fine rose. Now put on the sash, and keep all snug and warm until the seedlings appear, when the sashes should be tilted up during the day to admit fresh air freely and make the plants sturdy. As the seedlings wax in
. Dreer's garden book : seventy-third annual edition 1911. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. Frame to Carry Sash of Hotbed or Cold Frame as Illustrated in Bulletin No. 195, Corbett, Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. water moderately through a fine rose. Now put on the sash, and keep all snug and warm until the seedlings appear, when the sashes should be tilted up during the day to admit fresh air freely and make the plants sturdy. As the seedlings wax in strength, remove the sash both day and night, in fine weather, but replace it as a protection against wet, muggy or cold weather. As soon as the plants are big enough, transplant them into the open garden. In sowing in a cold frame, carefully observe that the kinds of plants are of somewhat the same nature, strength and time of germinating. When this is not the case, or there is any uncertainty about it, better sow in pots, pans or flats, and set these close together in the frame; as the seedlings appear in the pots or flats, remove these to the lightest, sunniest place in the frame, and the ungerminated ones keep by themselves. Afterwards as regards inuring to weather,pricking off and finally- transplanting, treat as directed above in the manner of seed sown in the ;. Cross-shctionok a Temporary Hotbed as Illustrated in Bulletin No. 195, Corbbtt, Bureau op Plant Industry, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. (4>) lowed to go above 70 degrees in the day, nor below 50 at night Mr. Wm. Falconer writes the following for us regarding hotbeds: "A hotbed is like a cold frame, except that it is heated with a considerable depth of hot manure under the soil. Seeds may- be sown in it in the same way as specified in the case of a cold frame, but it is safer for the amateur to sow in pots, pans or flats and set these in the hotbed than to sow in the earth bed of the hotbed. Whil
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