Hot-bed Definition

Hot-bed Sentence Examples

• Fresh manure should be avoided, but the remains from an old hot-bed or mushroom bed may be incorporated.

• Elected deputy for his native town of Forli in 1880, he helped the royal visit to Romagna, hitherto regarded as a hot-bed of anti-monarchical views.

• In these cases the first supply of heat is derived from the hot bed made up within the pit.

• Horse dung is generally the principal ingredient in all hot bed manure; and, in its partially decomposed state, as afforded by exhausted hot beds, it is well adapted for garden use.

• It should be sown in April in a hot-bed, and afterwards planted out in beds or borders.