The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-30

No one who grows vegetables for mar
ket is likely to try and get along without
the necessary cold frames for growing
early plants Their use is, of course, more
imperative in some localities than in
others. but in any part of the south where
freezes occur in January and heavy frosts
in February, it is not pos
sibIe without them, to carry
on market gardening with the best results.
Even amateurs who md that pleasure
that is natural 10 intensive gardening,
and who grow vegetables only for home
use and TO give away, soon ma tnat
they cannot get the most pleasuraple
results out of gardening without cola
frame or two. Anywhere below the 54th
parallel at least, the gardener finds very
little use for the hotbeds, however indis-
pensable they may be in the cold region
of the north, where the soil becomes fro
zen to a considerable depth. Well man.
aged cold frames answer every purpose IN
the southern latitude in enabling the
gardener to provide himself with stocky,
well-grown plants by the time 1t is safe
to put them out in the open ground. The
only difference there is between a hot
bed and a cold frame is the absence of
bottom neat in the latter, which in
hotbed is secured by having fermenting
stable manure beneath the seeds.
Now, a well made cold frame properly
managed can be made to accumulate all
necessary heat if it is put in order only
few days before the seed is sown in
from being grown in soil not over-heated,
there is no advantage in using a hotbed
and the trouble and expense of having
one need not be incurred. There are not
many who need to be told how a cold
frame is made. Most every scotsman cat
alogue illustrates how it is made. A
frame made out Of good pine plank win
last and render good service for many
years. A hasty frame can be made by
merely lacking four pieces of or S-ineh
i1to tb eose eii ana pressing the front
back side sitting ON the level surface!
This VIII give slope of several inches
to the sun, and be sufficient to turn the
water readily from the sash. These
frames are usually made 3 feet wide by
6 feet long, covered with two sash each
3X3 feet.
The usual method of making frames.
however, is to make the back-piece of -
inch plank and the front Of 6-inch. The
side or end pieces are sawed out to cor
respond with these two widths. The frame
is then set on top of the soil after it has
been well prepared. On the outside of the
frame is banked up enough soil against it
to turn away the water of cold rains which
aids in keeping in the heat accumulated
in the inside. The frame should be nailed
together very closely and the glass sash
made to mt likewise, so as to exclude as
much as possible all air and to prevent
the heat accumulated in the day from be-
ing dlspelled at night The cold frames
should be put in good condition a week
before the time of seed-sowing, and even
in January, if the sash is kept on unn-
tcrruptedly for week or even less time,
the soil will get fully warmed If the sun
shines and capable of terminating in a
few days, any of our vegetable seeds that
it is desired to start there. The soil being
thoroughly fined and enriched with some
good ola compost Chat has been well fer
mcnted) after sowing the seed, the soil in
the frames should be made properly moist
by watering with water fresh from the
well or some that has been heated up TO
a Hundred degrees if it is convenient. The
sash should then be fitted on closely, and
kept on until the seeds have terminated.
After the plants are up good air should
be admitted to them during the warm
part of the day. else they are liable to
grow up spindling and this they must not
be allowed to do. Plenty of fresh air
must be given. and just enough water to
keep them in healthy growth.