SECT. XIII. OF HOT ELDS, Iff 



©:ie foot and a half wide at bottom, and narrower at 

 toD, mould be applied firil to the back, and in. about 

 a weefc alter to the front, before the heat is greatly 

 gone off; and if very bad weather comes, there ihould 

 be a lining of ftraw all round this. In cafes ot great 

 declenfion of heat, the ends ihould have hot dung applied 

 to them, or, at leaft, a good thicknefs of litter, or 

 Lav all linings a few inches higher than the 

 })ed\ to allow for finking; or, not being laid quite fo 

 high at firit, add more afterwards, when a little fettled. 

 Early made beds may require two or three repeated 

 Unings. Should dung of a brifk heat for a new lining 

 be wanting, the old lining may be worked up with 

 what there is, and if (hook up with quite hefh (but 

 foul) dung horn the liable, do very well. 



To decreafe the heat of a bed, feveral holes may be 

 made in it, by thrufting an iron bar, or a thick fmooth 

 (harp pointed flake, up to the middle, which holes are 

 to be clofe ftopt again, with dung or hay, when the 

 heat is fufficiently abated. 



The life s to which hot beds may be applied are va- 

 rious, but chiefly for the cultivation of cucumbers and 

 melons, for which fee the next feftion. At the fpring 

 of the year, hot beds are commonly made ufe of for 

 forcing crops of feveral vegetables, as radijhes, carrots, 

 cauliflowers, lettuces, potatoes, turneps, kidney beans , 

 purjlanc, tarragon, jmall fallading, &c. Fruits of 

 feveral forts, as cherries, Jirawberries, rafpberries, 

 &c. are fometimes brought forward by dung heat ; as 

 alfo various jhrubs zndfozicrs, by means of forcing- 

 frames. Tender annuals, as balfanu, and other flow- 

 ers, that ncceifarily require beat to bring them up ; and 

 the lefs tender, and fome even of the hardy forts, are 

 alfo cultivated on hot-beds, or other afliirancc from 

 dung, to produce an earlier blow than could other- 

 wife be had. Directions for which, will be given in 

 their proper places. See Sect. 18. 



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