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and it will come into bearing tne end of 

 March or the beginning of April, and will 

 produce great plenty all fpring and furn- 



mer. 



THEY mould be under cover facing the 

 fun, but never expoied to its rays, nor to 

 rain ; for it is impolTible to manage a 

 mumroom-bed right where it is expofed 

 to rain : no covering of mats or ftraw 

 is fufficient to protect it. 



SUPPOSE the bed had been watered in 

 the morning, and in the afternoon a 

 flrong thun ler mower mould fall. It 

 would go through all the covering, and 

 perhaps deflroy the bed entirely. Many 

 a good bed in full bearing has been fo 

 fpoiled by fuch an accident, that it never 

 produced a fingle mumroom afterwards. 



IF a med with a pit thirty feet long has 



the fire-place in the middle on the back- 



fide, and made to draw both ways, and 



to come up the middle to divide the pit 



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