8 THE KITCHEN GARDEN. [JAN. 



same bed, at short intervals ; for if one sowing should miscarry, 

 another may succeed. 



When the plants, however, both of the first and succeeding sow- 

 ings, are two, three, or four clays old, they should be planted in 

 small pots, which pots must be placed also in the hot-bed, in the 

 manner following : 



Observe to fill the pots, the day before you intend to remove the 

 plants, with some rich, dry earth, and set them within the frame till 

 the next day, when the earth in the pots will be warm ; then pro- 

 ceed to planting, take the plants carefully up in the seed-pots, raising 

 them with your finger, Sec. with all the roots as entire as possible, 

 and with as much of the earth as will readily adhere about the fi- 

 bres ; and thus, the pots of earth being ready, and forming the earth 

 thereof a little concavely hollow a small depth, place the plants in the 

 hollowed part of the earth slopingly, with their roots towards the 

 centre, and earth over their roots and stems near an inch thick ; ob- 

 serving to plant three plants in each pot ; and if the earth is quite 

 dry, give a very little water just to the roots of the plants only ; and 

 directly plunge the pots into the earth on the bed, close to one 

 another, filling up all the spaces between with earth ; and let every 

 part of the bed within the frame be covered with as much earth as 

 will prevent the rising of the rank steam immediately from the 

 dung, which would destroy the plants. 



Be careful to examine the bed every day, to see that the roots of 

 the plants do not receive too much heat ; if any thing like that ap- 

 pears, draw up the pots a little, or as far as you see necessary for 

 the preservation of the plants, re-plunging them again to their rims 

 when the danger is over. 



Two or three days after planting, if the bed is in good condition, 

 the plants will have taken root ; though that is effected sometimes 

 in twenty -four hours. 



When the plants are fairly rooted, if the earth appears dry, give 

 them a little water in the warmest time of the day ; and if the sun 

 shines it will prove more beneficial : let the watering be occasion- 

 ally repeated very moderately, according as the earth in the pots 

 becomes dry, and appears in want of a little moisture : and for this 

 purpose always have some soft water set within the frame a few 

 hours, to be ready to water the plants as you shall see occasion ; 

 but always with very great cautious moderation at this season. 



If there is now a brisk growing heat in the bed, you should, in 

 order to preserve it as long as possible, apply some outward pro- 

 tection of long stable-litter, straw, waste hay, dried fern, or leaves of 

 trees, round the sides of the bed, raising it by degrees round the 

 outsides of the frame. 



This will defend the beds from cold piercing wind, heavy or 

 driving rains and snow, if either should happen ; for these, if suf- 

 fered to come at the bed, would chill it, and cause a sudden decay 

 of the heat, whereby the plants would certainly receive a great 

 check. 



If a lively heat be kept up, you may admit air to the plants every 

 day, to strengthen their growth, by tilting the glasses in proportion 



