cold-frame

He had knocked together a rough cold-frame, on the sunny side of the woodshed, to fit some old sash he had found in the barn.

Hiram the Young Farmer Burbank L. Todd

At school No. 4, in Indianapolis, one of the teachers wanted a cold-frame and a hot-bed for use in connection with her nature work.

The New Education A Review of Progressive Educational Movements of the Day (1915) Scott Nearing 1933

When two score pots are ready, I set them in a cold-frame, sprinkle them, stretch the kink out of my back, listen to the wood-thrush a moment (he came on the fourteenth and is evidently planning to nest in our pines), and then return to my job.

Penguin Persons & Peppermints Walter Prichard Eaton 1917

The most satisfactory material for use in hotbed and cold-frame sash is double-thick, second-quality glass; and panes twelve inches wide are ordinarily broad enough, and they suffer comparatively little in breakage.

Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) 1906

It is true that they will bloom when sown in the autumn, but unless kept over the winter in a cold-frame the plants will send up stalks, only about a foot in height.

A Woman's Hardy Garden 1903

I have no glass on my place, not even a cold-frame or hot-bed.

A Woman's Hardy Garden 1903

When one has a hotbed or cold-frame it is often an advantage to set a row of tomato plants nearly 18 inches apart at the back end much earlier than they could be safely set in the open ground, and if these are allowed to grow on in place, as shown in Fig. 19, being pruned and tied to stakes, they will give some very early fruit.

Tomato Culture: A Practical Treatise on the Tomato 1883

The plants had been crowded forward as rapidly as possible in the cold-frame, and when set in the field were much higher than A's, but so soft that they were badly checked in transplanting and a great many of them died and had to be reset.

Tomato Culture: A Practical Treatise on the Tomato 1883

Well rotted stable manure may be used to advantage, freshly applied and plowed under, for early spring planting of cold-frame or hot-bed plants which are expected to mature before extremely hot-dry weather, but it has no special advantage except to warm up the soil.

The Cauliflower 1877

In 1882 I discovered that by wintering the plants over in cold-frame, and keeping them growing all winter, those that were transplanted _without wilting_ would form heads, and then throw seed-stalks in time to form seed before frost, if they were continually wet with tepid water after heading.

The Cauliflower 1877