GARDEN FRAMES AND EARLY VEGETABLES


tne standard   trame and    if
transplanted later to the garden
can be had on the table at least
a month earlier than if grown
in the garden after the earth
has become warm enough to
act as a general hothouse.
  Such flowers as asters, car-
nations, marigolds, early cos-
mos, annual chrysanthemums
and larkspurs, pansies, petu-
nias,  verbenias,  ageratums,
stocks and others should be
sown in cold frames at vary-


ing times trom March until IMlay, thereby   A TYPICAL STANDARD FRAME SHOW
eliminating the danger of a late frost catch-  SASHES OF REGULATION SIZE.
ing the seeds when sown in the open         erly, soil and other conditions
b
garden.                                     into account.   If a hotbed is
   The raising of violets in cold frames and should be started about the
midd
the forcing of their blooms from October    ruary or the first of March.
T1
until April has become a recognized occti-  soil of the bed should next be
d


Fat.r.JII  11n  n ltI
country for
both   amateur
a n d   profes-
sional.  G a r-
deners of au-
thority, al-
though    per-
haps not in the
majority, claim
that violets do
better in cold
frames than in
the greenhouse


a ue
least
a hal
shoul
fill
fre
mant
with
the
of ot
of th
two
the
the


a.I   e L resu - PUTlING MATS ON THE FRAME WHEN SIGNS ARE UNMISTAKABLE servii
of these stIc- OF FROST DURING THE NIGHT.                              vent
cessful men are such as to justify their    ing.  The manure should be
opinion.                                    layers and tramped down firmly,
   Many people are held back from the use   of retaining its heat longer
than
of standard frames because they deem it     was loosely laid.
such a difficult matter to set them up prop-  The soil used on the top shoul


'ING THREE

eing taken
desired it
le of Feb-
-e original
tug out to
pth of at
two and
f feet. It
.d then be
ed with
s h horse
ire mixed
leaves in
proportion
ne third
e latter to
,thirds of
former--
leaves
ng to pre-
all burn-
put in in
a means
if the bed

d be good


garden earth of soft rich quali-
ty, the top inch being sifted on
to make it especially fine and
thereby helpful to the tiny root-
lets of the sprouting seeds. A
standard frame used as a hot--
bed needs usually a subframe to
set about it in order that the
heat generated by the fermenta-
tion of the manure may be con-
fined. With the advent of cold
weather the space between the
two frames can be filled in with


SAME FRAME ENCLOSED IN A SUBFRAME, THE MOAT
FILLED IN WITH LEAVES AND LITTER, AND THE GLASS CO
SHUTTERS FOR WINTER WARMTH.


LIKE SPACE  eaves ani lLiLr tlhdat LIIe cold
VERED WITH  may be kept away from     the
            sides of the box. The shorter


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