The Garden Under Glass

PITS, FRAMES AND HANDLIGHTS 31 means plants can be kept closer and afforded different treatment. Cold Pits The only difference between these and others is that they are not provided with artificial heat, but, elf it is often the plan to put in a lot of heating material to form a hotbed, they are usually made deeper than heated pits. Being formed of bricks, they keep out more frost than wooden frames and on that account are more valued. They can be used for a variety of purposes, such as forcing potatoes, asparagus, lettuces, carrots, radishes, cucumbers, marrows, for striking cuttings of pentstemons, calceolarias, antirrhinums, violas, marguerites, for plunging bulbs and strawberries, for wintering camations and hardy plants in pots, for hardening off all kinds of bedding plants, for violets, and for such plants as geraniums, tree carnations, Chrysanthemums, etc., in the late spring montiis. This list of purposes to which they may be put should surely be sufficient recommendation. Wooden Frames These can be bought ready made and are probably better so; as there is nothing very intricate in their design, however, any handy man with some elementary tools could put one together. The cheap form of frames should be avoided ; they are scarcely worth the rail carriage, for they warp and rot and quickly make one disgusted with gardening. A solidly built frame may incur a larger outlay in the beginning, but once made it will last for years. As the illustrations are supplied with scale, it will not be necessary to write about dimensions. The ordinary two-light frame will be found the most useful, for it can easily