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The due healthy heat of a hot bed of 

 horfe-dung, in the fine mold , where the 

 roots of th living Cucumber-plants were, in 

 Feb. was 56 degrees, which is nearly the 

 bofom heat, and that for hatching of egg?; 

 The heat of the air under the glafs-frame 

 of this hot-bed was 34. degrees i fo the roots 

 had 26 degrees more heat, than the plants 

 above ground. The heat of the open air 

 was then 17 degrees. 



It is now grown a common and very 

 reafonable pra&icej to regulate the heat 

 of (loves and green-houfes , by means of 

 Thermometers, hung up in them. And for 

 greater accuracy, many have the names of 

 fome of the principal exoticks, written up- 

 on their Thermometers, over-againft, the fe- 

 veral degrees of heat, which are found by- 

 experience to be propereft for them. And 

 I am informed that many of the mod curi- 

 rious Gardiners about London have agreed 

 to makeufe of Thermometers of this fort. 

 which are made by Mr. John Fowler in 

 Swithins- alley, near the Royal-Exchange 5 

 which have the names of the following 

 plants, oppofite to their refpe&ive molt kind- 

 ly degrees of heat 5 which in my Thermome- 

 ters 



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