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Show A Cold Frame for Fall. It is really remarkable what results can be had in the garden long after the frost comes, by the use of a properly prop-erly built cold frame. The most satisfactory satis-factory frame we have used is made in sections, three by six feet the num-bar num-bar of sections to be used depending on how much space you want to devote de-vote to late plants. The cold frame Is nothing more than four boards nailed together to make the sides, and-it should slope slightly toward the south. This is then covered with 6ash, made of light wood, covered with cloth. Water proof material may be gotten for this latter from most of the large seed stores, and Is preferable on account of its durability. Success with cold frames in the fall depends on getting your plant well started before the frosts come. A good plan is to build your frame work, and a good size would be six by twelve feet. This would require four cloth frames to cover it, and the total expense ex-pense should not exceed five dollars for materials. Inside this inclosure can be planted any late summer vegetables vege-tables that you want to raise. If the sun is particularly hot, put the cover frames on during the middle of the day, but otherwise just give the plants the same attention you would if planted in the spring. When danger of frost is at hand, put the cover frames on every night, taking them off in the morning, but when the weather gets still colder, leave these cover frames on all the time. You will be surprised at the excellent crop of late vegetables you will have when all your neighbors' gardens are desolate. If you want to have vegetables all through the winter, you must replace the cloth frames with glass about November No-vember 1, and by this means some of the hardier plants, like radishes, beets, string beans and onions, can be had practically all winter, though it will probably be well for winter use to bank your frame all around with fresh horse manure, which would turn your cold frame into a hot frame. Among the flowers, violets, pansies, English' daisies and. primroses all will grow well during the winter in a cold frame covered with glass. |