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with glazed sashes, and boards or shutters ; the plants should 

 be watered and shaded a few days till they have taken 

 root ; they will afterwards require light and air every mild 

 day throughout the winter; but the outsides of the frames 

 must he so lined and secured, and the tops of the beds so 

 covered as to keep out all frost. 



The plants should be well attended to until the time of 

 transplanting in the spring; and these who have not hand 

 or bell gfasses, so as to enable them to set some out by the 

 latter end of March, should have a frame ready about the 

 last week in February, in order that they may be trans- 

 planted to the distance of eight or nine inches apart; this 

 would prevent them from buttoning, or growing up weak ; 

 if this be not done, some of the strongest plants should be 

 taken out of the beds and planted in flower pots, which 

 nray be afterwards placed in a frame or greenhouse, until 

 the weather be warm and settled, which may be expected 

 soon after the middle of April. They should be then 

 turned out with the balls of earth entire, and transplanted into 

 a bed of the richest earth in the garden, at the distance of 

 two feet and a half from each other every way ; the 

 residue may be taken up from the frame the last week in 

 April, or earlier, if the season proves rnild, by means of a 

 garden trowel, and transplanted as above. 



The plants should be afterwards well cultivated, by hoeing 

 the ground deep around them, and bringing some earth gradu- 

 ally up to their stems, so as to push them forward before the 

 approach of warm weather. When the soil has been drawn 

 up to the plants some little time, fork the ground between 

 the rows lightly over, which will promote their growth. They 

 should be liberally supplied with water in dry weather; 

 those out of flower twice a week, and those in, every other 

 day, which will contribute to their producing very large heads. 

 As the flower heads appear, the larger leaves should be 

 broken down over them, to defend them from the sun and 

 rain, in order that the heads or pulps may be close, und of 

 their natural colour. 



