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Definition of Cold frame
1. Noun. Protective covering consisting of a wooden frame with a glass top in which small plants are protected from the cold.
Definition of Cold frame
1. Noun. (agriculture gardening) A transparent-roofed enclosure, built low to the ground, used to protect plants from cold weather. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cold Frame
Literary usage of Cold frame
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin by United States (1918)
"Hotbed and cold frame construction. 1. State the object of a hotbed and of a ...
What should be the size of the cold frame in proportion to the hotbed? 6. ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1916)
"The cold frame growers in this section all use one strain of ... On visiting the
other cold frame farms during the same week typical cases of mosaic were ..."
3. The Seasons in a Flower Garden: A Handbook of Information and Instruction by Louise Shelton (1907)
"A COLD-FRAME In making a cold-frame, the excavated space below the frame need be
but a foot deep. The lower half of it is filled with manure about six ..."
4. Around the Year in the Garden: A Seasonable Guide and Reminder for Work with by Frederick Frye Rockwell (1917)
"You must realize at the outset that cold-frame gardening is a highly intensified
form of gardening, and that therefore to be successful with it you ..."
5. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1865)
"A cold frame is also useful for wintering autumn sown annuals, and may be put to
many uses we ... A cellar and cold frame are both essential to the florist, ..."
6. Garden Farming by Lee Cleveland Corbett (1913)
"Soil for the cold frame and hotbed. In the case of the cold frame or hotbed the
soil used should be of the nature described for field culture, ..."
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