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wards, the plants should be pricked out into another bed, at 

 the distance of four inches from each other every way ; and 

 this bed should be encompassed with garden frames, covered 

 with glazed sashes, and boards or shutters. The plants should 

 be watered and shaded a few days till they have taken root ; 

 and afterwards they will require light and air every mild day 

 throughout the winter. But the outsides of the frames must 

 be 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 those who have not hand or 

 bell glasses, so as to enable them to set some out by the lat- 

 ter end of March, should have a frame ready about the last 

 week in February, in order that they may be transplanted to 

 the distance of eight or nine inches apart. This would prevent 

 them from buttoning. If this be not done, some of the 

 strongest plants should be taken out of the beds and planted 

 in flower-pots, which may afterwards be 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 

 then be turned out with the balls of earth entire, and trans- 

 planted 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 mild, by means of a gar- 

 den trowel, and transplanted as above. 



The plants should afterwards be well cultivated, by hoeing 

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

 dually up to the 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. Those 

 out of flower should be liberally supplied with water in dry 

 weather, 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 



