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over heat or in the natural ground, according to the nature of the 

 plants. The earlier the sowing can be performed, the belter growth 

 the plants will attain in the summer season. 



In raising the two first sorts in the greatest lustre and perfection, 

 the aid of two or three different hot-beds is necessary; which should 

 be covered with frames and glasses, so as to slide with ease and con- 

 venience. The first of these hot-beds should be small, and made in 

 the ordinary way, for the purpose of receiving the seed, and which 

 may likewise serve for that of other annuals of the tender kind of 

 similar growth. They should be earthed over the top within the 

 frames, to the depth of five or six inches, with good light dry mould. 

 In this the seed should be sown in small shallow drills, and covered 

 over very lightly with fine sifted mould : the glasses are then to be 

 placed over. In these situations the plants should be suffered to re- 

 main till they have attained the height of two or three inches, air 

 being admitted in fine days, and the glasses covered at nights with 

 garden mats. When the plants are in this situation, a second hot- 

 bed is to be prepared in the same manner, into which the young 

 plants are to be pricked out to the distance of about four inches from 

 each other, moderate waterings being occasionally given, and the 

 plants well shaded from the sun till they have taken fresh root. Air 

 should now be admitted more freely when the weather is fine, by 

 raising one end of the glasses, and the night coverings be carefully 

 applied. After the plants have remained in these beds a month or 

 six weeks, and are become tolerably strong in their growth, so as to 

 require more space, the final hot-beds should be made ready. These 

 ought to be of much larger dimensions. When the frames are placed 

 over them, earth to the depth of four or five inches should be laid 

 over; and the plants, after being taken up with balls of earth about 

 their roots, planted in pots of about the twenty-fourth size, water 

 being immediately applied in a sparing manner, and the pots plunged 

 in the earth of the beds, the frames being raised occasionally, as the 

 plants advance in growth. The lights are to be constantly kept on, 

 but air freely admitted by raising the ends daily, and water applied 

 every day or two. Towards the end of June the plants will have 



