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ther is not then fufficiently warm, 'viz. 

 After fowing the feed, fift over the feed- 

 bed the fweepings or dufl of pit-coal, turf- 

 mould, or any fiich materials as are of a 

 black colour, which, by imbibing the fun's 

 rays, will greatly encreafe the heat of the 

 bed, and promote vegetation. This may 

 be renewed as oft as the rain wafhes the 

 materials into the ground, till the plants 

 appear, and then fliould be difcontinued, 

 that the plants may have the advantage of 

 the reflected heat ; if a border, which lies 

 under a fouth wall, be thus managed, a 

 perfon would fcarce imiagine what a degree 

 of heat the border will conceive. Note 

 alfo, that it will much further the fpring- 

 iiig of all ftone feeds, of which fort is the 

 muibeny, if they are put into an earthen 

 veii'el with an hole in its bottom, and fo 

 buried abroad in the earth during the whole 

 winter, and till you defign to fow them 

 in fpring ; they fliould be moiften'd be- 

 foreliand, and a (late fitted to the inlide of 

 the veirei's mouth, (but fo as not to prevent 

 the rain from keeping them moift) to hin- 

 der mice from getting at them, who, -if 

 once they found them out, would in a few 

 days totally deftroy tlicm, therefore you 



fliould 



