SECT. XIII. OF HOT BEDS, 171 



on an heap, in a conical form ; and when it has taken 

 a thorough heat, and has been fmoking or fweating 

 for two or three days, it mould be turned over, mov*. 

 ing the outfide in, or mixing the colder parts with the 

 hot. When it has taken heat again for two or three 

 days, give it a fecond turn as before, and having lain 

 the fame time, it will be'in proper order for making a 

 good laiting bed with a fteady heat. If in hafte, it 

 may be made into a bed after the firfl heating ; but it 

 will be better for limiting again, or even a third time. 

 When dung is ready before wanted, keep turning it 

 over, left it be too much fpent. It will be proper to 

 begin to worker//.? dung a week or ten days before it is 

 to be ufed ; but if the dung is not freih, it is only ne- 

 ceifaiy to throw it together for once heating. 



Dunghills, from which it is defigned to colle£r. ma* 

 terials lor a hot bed, mould be taken notice of in time, 

 thai they are not left to work themfelves weak by long 

 fmoking, without opening and turning over. Be is 

 may be made of dung from a week to a month old. 



If heavy rati, cutting wind, or driving /now, fhoull 

 keep the heaps from heating, and the dung is wanted, 

 lay fome flraw round it, and it will protect and fetch 

 up the heat. If at firfl putting it together there is not 

 -a general rnoijhre in the dung, it mult be given it, by 

 calling water evenly over it as it is laid. This may be 

 done with a hand-bowl from a pail, but it would be 

 . better to ufe a large watering pot. No water muft be 

 vied to dung when it is got dark ; this is, however, the 

 colour that itjhould begin to have when put together in 

 a bed, which the directions given for working it will 

 bring it to. * 



The Jize of a hot bed, as to length and breadth, is 

 (of COurfeJ to be according to the frame ; and the 

 height of it according to the feafon, and the degree of 

 heat requifite to the nature of the plant to be cultivated. 

 In a dry foil, a bed may be funk in the ground, from fix 

 inches to a foot, to make it more convenient to get at" 



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