Tomato culture; a practical treatise on the tomato, its history, characteristics, planting, fertilization, cultivation in field, garden, and green house, harvesting, packing, storing, marketing, insect enemies and diseases, with methods of control and remedies, etc., etc . ective view of a three-sash hotbed isgiven in Fig. 13, and of a cross-section in Fig. 14. In some sections, particularly in the South, it is notalways easy to procure suitable manure for makinghotbeds, so these are built to be warmed by flues un-der ground, but I think it much better where a fire isto be used that the sash b
Tomato culture; a practical treatise on the tomato, its history, characteristics, planting, fertilization, cultivation in field, garden, and green house, harvesting, packing, storing, marketing, insect enemies and diseases, with methods of control and remedies, etc., etc . ective view of a three-sash hotbed isgiven in Fig. 13, and of a cross-section in Fig. 14. In some sections, particularly in the South, it is notalways easy to procure suitable manure for makinghotbeds, so these are built to be warmed by flues un-der ground, but I think it much better where a fire isto be used that the sash be built into the form of ahouse. A hotbed of manure is preferred to a houseby .some because of its supplying imiform and moistbottom heat—and one can easily give abundant air; HOTBEDS AND COLD-1KAMES 53 but the sash can be buih into the form of a houseat but Httle more expense, and it has the great advan-tage of enabling one to work among the plants in anyweather, while, if properly built, any desired degreeof heat and ventilation can be easily secured. Exceptwhen very early ripening fruit is the desideratum,plants started with heat but pricked out and grownin cold-frames without it, but where they can be pro-tected during cold nights and storms, will give better. FIG. 14—CROSS-SECTIOX OF HOTBED results than those grown to full size for the field inartificial heat. Cold-frames.—In locations where tomatoes are muchgrown large areas are devoted to cold-frames coveredeither by sash or cloth curtains. Sash give much bet-ter protection from cold and on this account are moredesirable, particularly where very early fruiting iswanted, but their first cost is much greater and thelabor of attending to beds covered by them is muchmore than where cloth is used. Sash-covered bedsshould be of single width and run east and west, but 54 TOMATO CULTURE if the beds are covered with cloth it is better that theybe double width (12 feet) and run north and front of the single and the
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