Cabbage, lettuce and cauliflower seeds, if sown early this month in hotbed or greenhouse, will make fine plants if transplanted into hotbed in March.
Bedding plants thrive best in a light loam, liberally manured with thoroughly rotten dung from an old hotbed or thoroughly decomposed cow droppings and leaf-mould.
Sow small salading and radishes in the first week, and lettuces in frames on a shallow hotbed for planting out in spring.
The city had always been a hotbed of yellow fever and was the principal source from which the disease was introduced year after year into our Southern States.
Perhaps if my poor uncle believed it really to be the cause of God Himself, he would not be in such extreme fear for it, or fancy it required such a hotbed and greenhouse culture.
One soldier said he was sorry for the women and children of South Carolina, but the hotbed of secession must be destroyed.
I entered the Academy at a time when, as one paper had it, West Point was a "hotbed of disloyalty and snobbery, a useless and expensive appendage.
The east and centre were the strongholds of French democracy, as they had been the hotbed of feudal and monarchical abuses; and at this very time the Bourbon princes declared themselves at Nancy and Bordeaux.
If one does not object to some inconvenience and discomfort, a hotbed may be used--heated with hot water or electricity, or as in years past, with fermenting manure.
Seedlings may be started in hotbed or greenhouse and then transplanted to cold frames to finish the job.
They may come into the world like evil flowers on a hotbed of rotten institutions; but the seed of this one has germinated in your brother's brain, and that will be enough for your devoted assent.
Well; no doubt that was so; but Alexandria was a perfect hotbed of saints, one of whom, you might think, might have been lured down to the beach and the perilous proximity of water for the occasion.
Was this, indeed, the hotbed of treason; the very home of disloyalty and rebellion?
Thus was abandoned the great State of Georgia, and the “hotbed of secession,” South Carolina, to the Union army.
One of the August pieces of work was to fix the hotbed for winter.
Why, pricking is just lifting out the seedlings with a pointed stick from one row to another, or from a box or hotbed into the outside garden.
I shall do that this fall and make a real hotbed out of it.
The shoe-factory, which had struggled hard to get on its legs again, soon became a hotbed of discontent.
True, the bank held mortgages on rows of flimsy-built houses where walls were cracking apart, foundations settling, plumbing in such a condition that it was a hotbed of disease.
Toledo was at this time the smouldering hotbed of those political intrigues which some years later burst into flame, and resulted finally in the expulsion of the Bourbons from the throne of Spain.
Toledo is, as you know, a hotbed of intrigue and dissatisfaction.
Still another plan is to gather the green fruit and spread it not more than two to four fruits deep in hotbed frames, which are then covered with sash.
Hotbed frames should be of a size to carry four to six 3×6-foot sash, and made of lumber so fastened together that they can be easily knocked apart and stored when not in use.
In this way plants, equal to any, may be grown without the aid of either hotbed or greenhouse.
A perspective view of a three-sash hotbed is given in Fig.
I know of an instance where two adjoining fields belonging to A and B were set with tomatoes, using plants started in the same hotbed from the same lot of seed.
Hotbed sash 3×6 feet with side-bars projecting at the ends to facilitate fastening them in place are usually kept by dealers, who offer them at from $1.
In everything he showed his sympathy with absolutism, and hence recommended renewed shackles on the Press and on the universities,--at that time the hotbed of revolutionary ideas.
The only request I made and obtained was, that the coffin should be opened before it was handed over to us, so as to be sure that we were taking neither a hotbed of infection nor an imaginary corpse on board.
Harbin is on the Trans-Siberian Railroad, and was the originalhotbed of the disease.
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.
There are some crops, however, that are carried to full maturity in the hotbed itself, as radishes and lettuce.
If the loam is heavy, place the pot in a warm situation; a spent hotbed is a good place.
Various hotbed mattings are sold by dealers in gardeners' supplies.
In order to hasten the season of the extra-early crop of beets, the seeds may be sown in boxes or in the soil of a hotbed in February or March, transplanting the small plants to the open ground at the time the first sowing of seed is made.
Seed may be sown in the open ground in May, or for early plants, in the hotbed in March.
The quantity of manure to be used will depend on its quality, and also on the season in which the hotbed is made.
Seed should be sown in a hotbed early in the spring, plants transplanted to the garden when from 2 to 3 inches high, and given good cultivation through the season, being covered with litter on the approach of winter.
If cuttings are to be made, it will be necessary to start the roots early, either in a hotbedor house.
One of the recent methods of securing extra large and also early bulbs from seed is to sow the seed in a hotbed in February or early March, and transplant to the open ground in April.
Radish seeds may be sown in the open ground or in the hotbed and the crop harvested from there.
Sow the seeds in the hotbed or in the boxes in the house.
Sow in thehotbed or in shallow boxes in the house.
The date at which the hotbed may be started with safety depends almost entirely on the means at command of heating it and on the skill of the operator.
If you have a light, warm soil and a location that is fully exposed to the sun you can raise almost as fine radishes outside of the hotbed as in it, though of course not as early in the season.
Lettuce This plant should be started in the hotbed if there is one.
On cold nights the hotbed sash should be covered with blankets or old carpeting to prevent the formation of frost on the glass.
After constructing the hotbed and putting the frame and sash in place, test the heat inside by an accurate thermometer before venturing to sow any seed.
This is simply a snug inclosure of boards covered with glass, into which plants from the hotbed are to be set for the purpose of hardening them off before they are put into the open ground.
Seed can be put into the ground about the first of May, or plants can be started in the hotbed if wanted for very early use.
If you are without hotbedfacilities I would advise purchasing plants from the gardener, who tries to supply his customers with strong and healthy plants very early in the season.
I am aware that many young gardeners have the impression that a hotbed is, in some respects, a mysterious thing, and because of this they do not undertake to make one.
When the first stages of fermentation are over, set the hotbed frame in place, and fill in with five or six inches of very fine, rich soil.
A hotbed will be of no particular benefit unless supplemented by a cold-frame.
Tomato Start this plant in the hotbed if you have one.
Cucumber For very early cucumbers plant the seed in the hotbed in March or April, but do not put the plants into the garden until all danger of frost is over.
It will be readily understood from what I have said above that in order to attain success in the management of a hotbed great care will have to be exercised at all times and frequent attention given.
Because the heat from rapid fermentation is quite intense, at first the material from which it is obtained should be prepared before the hotbed is brought into use.
But it is here, and instead of there being one "Tenderloin" ulcer on the city there are now four, each fully as extended as was that old hotbed of vice.
