ON f I N E S. 



PROCURE fome frefh tanner's bark froiii 

 the tan-pits (if the bed is to be covered 

 with a three-light melon frame, which will 

 hold eighty plants) two good loads of 

 bark will be fufficient, and fo in propor- 

 tion. If the bark can be made dry before 

 It is laid on the bed, it will be better ; but 

 as the weather is generally very uncertain 

 at that time of the year (February) it 

 may be dried in the bed. 



LAY it on a ridge in the middle of the 

 bed ; fet on the frame and glaffes, and give 

 it air : as the bark dries, draw it to the 

 back and fore-fide of the frame till the 

 whole is dried ; then take off the frame, 

 and fpread it all over the bed ; fet on the 

 frame and glafles ; let them lay clofe until 

 the heat is rifen, which will be in three 

 or four days, when it will be of a mode- 

 rate temperature, if all has been performed 

 as directed. 



PREPARE fome mould a little lighter 

 and richer than is generally ufed for me* 



Ions* 



