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Show THE HOTBED. The New Y'ork Timts says: Xow is the scaaon to prepare the botbed for tho production of early plants of tomato, cauliflower, cabbage, aud pgg plant. It should be prepared three weeks or a month before it is planted, no as to permit the rank gases of the drst heat to pa&s ofl. It should be located on the south Bide of a board fence or the wall of a building, so as to be protected from the cold winds and receive the rays ot the noonday sun. For a m oil crate-si ztd garden a notbed twelve teet by six will be sufficient. suffi-cient. This is made by driving into the ground at the corners of the space measured oS for this purpoao four stout stakes of 3x3 scantling or round chestnut or cedar poles. The front pair Bhould be thirty inches and the rear pair thirty-six inches above the ground. This will give a slope to the top of six inches from rear to front. To these stakes boards should be nailed lengthwise, so as to make a box of the size mentioned. At the Iront and rear, on the outside, three more stakes should bo driven into tho ground to support the sides, three feet from the ends, and three feet apart. From front to rear should be nailed onto the top of these stakes cross bars of stout battens, three inches wide, placed so as to b flush with the upper up-per edges of the frame. These are lor the sash to rest upon when they aro slid downward. Battens should also be nailed over the joints of the boards. Four sashes, six feet long and three wide, should be made or procured, with tho crostbars and lower bar of the gash half an inch below be-low the level of the sides and top bar of the sash, so that when the glass is laid in its place the sheets will ovei-lap ovei-lap like shingles, with nothing to ire-vent ire-vent the lain Ironi blowing down and ofl them. The Irani e ot the siah should be 3 inches wide and lo thick, aud the bars an inch thick and desp, with a feather of a quarter oi an inch in the center, up and down, to make a shoulder upon which to lay the glass. This may most easily be done by nailing a strip a quarter ot an inch thick upon tho bars lengthwise. length-wise. The gUbS should be laid in putty at the sides', the lowest one resting rest-ing for an inch up.n the lower bars ot the frame, and each Fuccecdiug piece of glass Bhould overlap about three-quarters of an inch upon each preceding ono. For each sash there I J nill ho needed thii ly-two pieee of 7x'.l gla-s, ur lor tho whole T-'K nhceln. At thu ends of the hotbed frame broad cleats should bo nailed, up'in which thu outnide bain of tho two end itaalu M mIiouM r. ht. Tho tf:ihli hhuilld bo painted, and if properly used and ' ( imd for uill la-,t iiiiinv yrars. The next thing to Jo is Lo prepare thn in n nine. This nhnukl be Ircnh hor.-e nifinuie, with hut little litter in it. Fur a bed ol tho nizts mentioned above Lhi'ee tivo-horso loaiU uf manure will In; iitedtjj, Any other manure than clear hore manure will not get up hiillh-icnt heal. Tho manure is pla'-td in Hie box evenly with the fork, a layer of six inches at a lime, and trodden down firmly at Lhe siden, and not h i (irmly in tho center, us each layer id placid in tho frame, and until the heap is eighteen inelici deep. Thin ia covered with six iuchea in depth ol line, rich luam will manured ma-nured with homo old manure. Tho sash in then put on tlio top, and tin-bed tin-bed left to heat. ' This it will do ntniNeJy at first, and this first violent heat bhould lie allowed to hubside lo-foro lo-foro any seed ia fnivu, hen the temperature comes down to WQ or 70c thu seed may he thinly sown in drills, each kiiid'parutcly, and the aurfaco well watered with warm water. The i flush) a are placed over the bed, and the sprouting of tho seed awaited. It will be neies:iry to watch the I In I during tho daytime, when the sun is bright, le.-t tho boat rise too much, A therinoineLcr Huuld bu hung in the b.il by which the temperature cnu be a.eertaintl. If it should rise above 7U3 Piiino air should be Riven by sliding slid-ing the sasii down fur a lew inches until the proper temperature is ro-p ro-p lured. Should cold nights occur, fume hlraw, hay, ur a blanket should lie pread i'Vcr the glas to prevent tlio temperature from tailing below ilf or 5o |