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may also be found necessary ; and it may pos- 

 sibly be requisite to repeat the turning over 

 within the frame, as well as the watering, in a 

 day or two after the first. So long as the 

 burning qualities continue, the plants will not do 

 well ; it is necessary, therefore, to get rid of the 

 evil as soon as possible in the way pointed out ; 

 care being taken not to over-water, otherwise 

 the bottom of the bed will become so much 

 saturated with moisture as to be difficult to dry, 

 and as would occasion it to throw up a sour 

 and unwholesome steam, to the great injury of 

 the plants. 



There are other cases in which the bed may 

 not be sweet, from too great haste having been 

 used in putting together the materials of which 

 it has been formed ; but there may be no burn- 

 ing qualities in it, and if not in a very bad state, 

 the plants may be preserved in a heat of from 

 65 to 75, by giving air at all times, to allow the 

 impurities to pass off freely. 



Too much bottom heat there cannot be, if it 



