184? OF RAISING CUCUMBERS. SECT. XIV, 



burn, and if it catches the other paits of the bed, the 

 difeafe may be eafily remedied, in the way before men- 

 tioned, without difturbing the plants. Some gardeners 

 place turf under the plants, with the grafs downwards, 

 to prevent excefs of heat ; and k helps to keep the 

 mould, in other parts, from burning, to itir it about in 

 time. A preventative ufed by fome, is to put on a 

 layer of five or fix. inches ot old dung, when the bed ;s 

 made. It fhould feem, that a layer ot about three inches 

 of old bark might prevent burning. See Burning, 

 pages 180, 18-1. 



Planting is to take place as foon as the heaps of 

 mould are warm. Spread the earth on the top a little, 

 and having the hills a full ten inch.es depth, make a 

 hole in the middle fix inches deep, to receive the pot of 

 plants ; which pots will- be from four and a half. to five 

 inches deep, and- confequently the plants funk in this 

 hole a full inch more in mould than they were in the 

 pot ; and they will have four inches depth of mould at 

 the bottom, which there fhould be below the roots k 

 Draw the mould up to the plants, and prefs it gently 

 between, and to them, all round the hillock. It is 

 fpokenhere of a pot of plants with three, .but. if only one 

 in a pot, the whole hill mult be thrown down to lour 

 inches depth, and the plants, with all the mould, fet one 

 clofe by the fide of the other, and then filled up an 1 

 round with the earth of the bed. 



To 'jhift plants out of the pots with the ball of 

 earth entire about them, put the fingers between the 

 plants, and turning the pot up, give it a gentle tap on 

 the knee, or edge, of the frame, and the whole will 

 come out; a little preflure at the fame time through 

 the hole at bottom, with a finger of the other hand, 

 will ..Hill : turn the plants up carefully, and place them 

 in io. To fecure their coming out whole, water the: 

 pots to the bottom the day before ; and if not too wet,, 

 they will flip out. If the plants hold tight to the pots r 

 when turned up, along thin narrow bladed knife will 



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