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Show FROM COLDFRAME TO YOUR GARDEN Plants Should Be Accustomed to the Outside Conditions Before Setting. PROTECTION MAY BE NEEDEO Boxes or Small Boards Will Save From Sun, Wind and Frost Water Before Be-fore Transplanting Carry Con. tainers to Place for Planting. It is assumed that the wide-awake gardener has. been busy long before the weather Is warm enough to sow any seeds in the open ground; that a window box or hotbed has been provided, pro-vided, and that a supply of plants of tomatoes, peppers, early cabbage, arid eggplant are under way to set in the garden as soon as danger of frost is past. If plenty of south window space is available, the United ' States Department Depart-ment of Agriculture advises that such crops as snap beans, cucumbers, musk-melons, musk-melons, and even sweet corn may be started in (lower pots, paper bands or berry boxes filled with good soil, and they will be of considerable size by the time the air is warm enough to plant them outdoors. Plants that grow in the house or in the hotbed must be hardened or adapted to outdoor conditions before they are set in the open ground. This is accomplished by gradually exposing them to the open air during the warmer part of the day and later at night, care being taken that they are not caught by a sudden cold snap. Hardening Early Plants. When the plants are grown in boxes or trays, the hoxes may be carried into the open each day and the plants allowed al-lowed to become gradually accustomed to the outdoor conditions. If they are in a hotbed or coldframe, the sash or other cover is lifted off during the day and replaced at night. Later the covering cov-ering is left off entirely; however, it should be kept close at hand to be put on at any time that the weather should turn cold. Plants set In the open ground may be protected from frost by turning small boxes over them and covering the boxes with a little earth. Old berry boxes are sometimes used for this purpose, but should be covered completely with soil, as the plants will freeze just as readily underneath the exposed boxes as if left in the open without any cover whatever. A good method of protecting plants is by setting set-ting a common roofing shingle or a small piece of board at an angle over each plant. These shingles can be set on the side to protect the plants from the sun during the daytime, or I hey may be placed on the opposite side In order to protect the plants from the wind and allow the sunshine to reach them. In some cases gardeners have provided pro-vided small frames, on the top of which are fitted single panes of glass, and one of these frames Is set over each plant or hill to protect it. The glass should be so arranged that It can be partially removed during the warmer part of the day In order to prevent the temperature becoming too high inside the frame. These protectors protec-tors give good results when used over hills of cucumbers, mnskmelons and summer squashes, as well as ove-plants ove-plants of sweet pepper, eggplant and tomatoes. Points to Rsmemner. There are a few points in connection vlth the transplanting of house-grown ilants to the garden that are worthy f special attention. In the first place, he plants to be transplanted should watered a few hours beforn they , s to be handled; this will cause the |