Farm And Garden

The three stylea of glass gardening nsed by vegetable growers are cold frames, hotbeds and forciug houses. The first of these, the cold frame, as Rural New Yorker explains, is cheap and easily managed, and many a farmer wil] find it valuablo either for the benefit of bis own table of1 for the home market. Theconstrnction, in a commercial place, is extremely simple - anerely a loug bed, 6 feet wide, innlosed on either side by inch boards. The ends are of course inclosed, but thero are no crossbars; so af ter removing the ends the entire length may be cultivated by horsepower. Por covering, 6 foot sashes are merely laid aoross the frames. Alleys 4 feet wide are left bet ween the frames. These are Í also planted, no waste space being ' mitted. The soi] of the frames ig verv rich and well drained, and it is mended that the top earth, at least to a depth of two orthreeincbes, be removed and replaced eacb season. An illnstration, reprodnced from Dreer's book, " Vegetables Under Glass, " shows how these "boxes" look wheu at rest - that is, while the glass is off during the summer. Tliis alley, 4 feetwide, is planted with radishes, while the boxes tbemselves contain a snmmer erop of celery. The picture shows how easily these boxes rnay be worked by horsepower. As fast as one erop comes out another isstarted. Sorue of the cold frame rotations, praoticed by Philadelphia ruarket gardeners, are thus given iu the usefnl manual already quoted. Spiuaoh, sown about Sept. 15, cut at Christinas; radishes, sown in Pebrnary, pulled in April; bush beans, sown in April; corn salad, sown abont Sept. 15, ent in April and May, followed by beans; lettuoe, sown abont Sept. 15, cut in April and May, followed by beans; spinach, sown about Sept. 15, eut at Christmas; lettuce (plauts from the seed bed or seed) in Pebrnary, followed by beans. Beets are frequently sowu in February. Of winter market garden crops the following may be grown without heat: Spinach, spring cabbage plunts, corn salad, endive, onions, daisy, pansy, violet. With heat: Toraato, cucumber, cauliflower, beans, melon, mushroom, Grown both ways: Lettuce, radish, parsley, beets, water cress, carrots, rhubarb, asparagus, mint. The seeoud cut, also reprodneed from Dreer's book, is a picture of a simple forcing house made byplacingthe Able sashos ou a frame. This picture was taken iu surunier aud shows the coustrnction of such a faonse. Such a house marks a step above tbecold frajne aud hotbed, for it provides shelter aud permits the iutroduction of inside heat by meaus of stearu or hot water. In this house the glass roof can be wholly removed. Tho peak or highest part of the roof is about six feet above the surfaoe of themiddle bed, wbile the permanent glass sides are two feet high. The beds are made direotly upou the ground, separated by sunkeu walks. Making; Extra Manure. There ia no denying the faot that the future sucoesa of the average northwe'stern farm dependa ou the ruanure pile, and the mau who propoaes to sncceed haa got to calcúlate on it, says Farm, Stook and Home, authority for the followiug: One of the very best waya to add ruaterially to the product of mauure about the stables and farmyard ia to haul in rnuck from some dried slough or marsh, or, in the absence of such, from some low hollow or a low place in the wood lot. This rich muck will dry out in a few days and ia one of the very best absorbants that can be used to take up and hold the liquid manure. It may be simply spread about the yard to be carted to the fields in the spring, or it may be more perfectly used by dryiug it and placing a little of it in the stalia daily. Parsley In Cold Frames. Parsley in coltl frames, to be kept snoeessfully througn tbc winter, ruust have the soi] tboronghly well banked up around tho Irames, or probably half rotted leaves and manare wonld bo better. With care as regards covering the sash vvith shutters, salt hay, or anything handy, to keep out frost, thia wil! anBWer the pnrpose - of course giving air every possible chance. We grow iu cold frames nearJy all our parsley for winter nse, but for this pnrpose seed shonld be sown some time in July; otherwise the planta are weak. - Cor. American Gardeniug.