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mould, in other pafts, from burning, to stir it about 

 in time. A preventatwe used by some, is to put on 

 a layer of five or six inches of old dung, when the 

 bed is made. It should seem, that a layer of about 

 three inches of old bark might prevent burning. See 

 Burning, pages 191, li)2. 



Planting is to take place as soon as the heaps of 

 mould are warm. Spread the earth on the top a 

 little, and having the hills a full ten inches depth-, 

 make a hole in the middle six inches deep, to receive 

 the pot of plants ; which pot will be from four and 

 a half to five inches deep, and consequently the 

 plants sunk 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 

 should be below the roots. Draw the mould up to 

 the plants, and press it gently between, and to them, 

 all round the hillock. It is spoken here of a pot of 

 plants with three, but if only one in a pot, the whole 

 hill must be thrown down to four inches depth, and 

 the plants, with all the mould, set one close by the 

 side of the other, and then filled up and round with 

 the earth of the bed. 



To shift 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 pressure at the same time through 

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

 will assist : turn the plants up carefully, and place 

 them in so. To secure their coming out whole, 

 water the pots to the bottom the day before ; and if 

 not too wet, they will slip out. If the plants hold 

 tight to the pots, when turned up, along thin narrow 

 bladed knife will be proper to loosen the sides a little. 

 If the mould should fall from the plants, carefully 

 spread the roots in planting, and they will be *ure to 



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