If you wish to drop in to see me before the next week's meeting we'll have plans for the coldframe worked out to explain to the boys then.
Instead of one coldframe we have four in our family and one belongs to a girl.
There was no dismissal, rustication, or official reprimand of Eugene Field by the ever-honored President Hopkins.
Field often learned to his infinite disgust, for he hated walking worse than he did horses or horse-cars.
Field also had a column of unsigned verse and storyettes in the Tribune under the heading, "For the Little Folks.
I quit writing them because all the other newspapers in the country began imitating the project.
When Nye first visited Field in Chicago, his presence in town was heralded with the following paragraph: The latest news from Bill Nye is to the effect that he has discovered a coal mine on his little farm near Hudson, Wis.
In that year not only Englishmen, but other foreigners, were investing in American real estate.
But he did not confine himself to the duties of directing the work of others.
So far as these materials go the hotbed andcoldframe are alike.
Remove to the cellar or a deep coldframeas freezing weather comes on.
Illustration: A simple and ingenious type of window greenhouse made from a single coldframe sash with side glazing and a shelf] [Illustration: An inside view of the same.
The difference is that while the coldframe depends for its warmth upon catching and holding the heat of the sun's rays, the hotbed is artificially heated by fermenting manure, or in rare instances, by hot water or steam pipes.
Illustration: Sash and frames for a coldframe or hotbed cost only about $3.
The coldframe is constructed practically as in the hotbed, except that if manure is used at all it is for the purpose of enriching the soil where lettuce, radishes, cucumbers or other crops are to be grown to maturity in it.
The simplest hothouse is the manure heatedcoldframe or hotbed.
It will thus be seen that to grow these plants to the best advantage, a coldframe, or better still, both a coldframe and hotbed, will be used in conjunction with the small home greenhouse.
A month later they will be ready to transfer to boxes, which should go to the coldframe and be given protection by mats or shutters.
For early use, the cucumber is usually started in a hotbed or coldframe by sowing the seed on pieces of sod 4 to 6 inches square, turned grass side down.
A hotbed differs from a coldframein being provided with bottom heat.
Tomatoes may be hastened in coloring by being picked just as they begin to color and placed in single layers in a coldframe or hotbed, where they can be covered with sash.
A coldframe is nothing more than an enlarged hand-box; that is, instead of protecting but a single plant or a single hill with a single pane of glass, the frame is covered with sash, and is large enough to accommodate many plants.
Then set the flats in a coldframe until the plants are large enough to plant out in the open ground.
The bush sorts may be planted in the open ground, and limas in pots or sods in a coldframe or spent hotbed.
In growing seedling rhubarb, the seed may be sown in a coldframe in March or April, protected from freezing, and in two months the plants will be ready to set in rows, 12 inches apart.
Lift some plants and set them in a coldframe 4 or 5 in.
A pit or coldframe on permanent walls, and a useful adjunct to a garden.
The pots or boxes should be plunged to the rim in soil in a hotbed or coldframe so situated that protection may be given on chilly nights.
Limas may be started on sods in a hotbed or a coldframe towards the last of the month.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "coldframe" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
