Which preposition to use with hotbed
Fines, imprisonments, and other sentences, out of all proportion to the offence committed, were heaped on every redcoat in much the same way as was then being practised in Boston and other hotbeds of disaffection.
An age of unlimited declamation, an age of incessant talk, is a hotbed in which real depth and nobility of feeling runs miserably to seed.
An old hotbed of insurrection, the Rue Saint-André-des-Arts, was becoming agitated.
The seed is raised on a hotbed in March, or in the open in April, and it blooms in the autumn.
To Charlotte's inexperience Brussels was a perfect hotbed for the germs of the real.
so much the better), and plant them thinly in well-drained, shallow pans of leaf-mould and sand; plunge the pans in a hotbed under a frame, shade them from hot sunshine, and when they are rooted remove them to the greenhouse till spring, at which time growth must be encouraged by giving a higher temperature and frequent syringing.
" CHAPTER VI WILD FLOWERS FOR HELEN'S GARDEN Roger had a fair crop of lettuce in one of his flats by the middle of March and transplanted the tiny, vivid green leaves to the hotbed without doing them any harm.
The seed is sown in March or April in pots of well-drained, light, rich soil, and placed in a cucumber frame or on a hotbed with a temperature of 75 degrees.
The seed may be sown in the open border early in spring, or preferably on a hotbed at the same period.