Hotbed Definition

Hotbed Sentence Examples

• It is an unlovely place, surrounded by mud flats, and a hotbed of malaria.

• Bedding plants thrive best in a light loam, liberally manured with thoroughly rotten dung from an old hotbed or thoroughly decomposed cow droppings and leaf-mould.

• Pot Neapolitan violets for forcing; or plant out on a mild hotbed.

• Cabbage, lettuce and cauliflower seeds, if sown early this month in hotbed or greenhouse, will make fine plants if transplanted into hotbed in March.

• Annuals that have been sown in the greenhouse or hotbed may be planted out, and seeds of such sorts as mignonette, sweet alyssum, Phlox Drummondii, portulaca, &c., may be sown in the beds or borders.