Show OIL STOVES IN HOTBEDS suggestion which will prove able next spring for eais says a writer in rural new yorker I 1 hal a doted 15 or 18 feet long to start tomato plants it ft as heated by two one wick oil an 1 was a perfect success after I 1 found 1 v to manage it I 1 aall try to tell how one can have an ill stove hotbed to grow i i per to nato i lants egg i baits and the like to i rhe hotbed ir be elevated on blocks of high enough so that t person can hect under it to care foi the lamps it should be sheltered fiora the winds but not near eno agh tj an building to cause danger it abe hotbed should get on flie in the mccomi diagram A le presents the glass area 1 is a dalae bottom made of sheet lion and lest ing on lion lods run crossways of the V A D aaram of the hotbed hotop 1 is the tn e bottom made of wood and distance about six inches aiom the sheet lion bottom D and F d e small boxes each big enough to hold a one wick oil stove A two wick oil stove will make tie soil too hot j above the flame I 1 ach box is fitted with a door in wl ich are bored a few 1 oles to admit air the dirt Is placed on the sheet iron bot torn to a depth of sli inches alie warm air circulates between the wooden bot torn and tie sheet lion one bit no times horn the oil stove faver reach the interior ff the hotbed proper the woodwork at the under side ot the hotbed should not be too tight a few small aracka should be left or there will be no circulation of air for the lamps and they will smoke I 1 once made like this to an englishman the gard ener to a rich man this gardener makes his hotbeds by the help ot ina nure I 1 told him after I 1 got the hang of my oil stove hotbeds I 1 nayer had a failure he sal I 1 you are then ahead ot me for with allme care my mancie beds are not always a sue cess and it Is some work to make them |