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 covered with a light-coloured bays, or very coarfe flan- 

 nel,, to exhale the damp, and are to be replaced with 

 dry ones in the mornir.g, particularly in clofe damp 

 weather; two fets ot thefe iVames will be necefiary to 

 preferve the plants from the vapours that rife at this iea- 

 ibn. 



Your plants being now above ground, prepare ano- 

 ther bed, with one hght, in tlie fame mnnner as the firft, 

 keeping it to three feet of dung, that it may retain the 

 heat, until the plants are fit to be planted in bafkets. 

 Cover thi^s bed with the compoft as before directed, to 

 the depth of five or fix inches, then fet on your frame, 

 and when you perceive that the firlT: violent heat is over, 

 prick in your plants at three inches diftance, plant from 

 plant, fetting them up to their feed-leaves, and to be co- 

 vered from the rays of the fun, until you perceive them 

 growing, which they will do in three da\s tune. 



When vou give them water, it muft be but a little at a 

 ti.mejandiuch as has been kept in a bottle under the trame. 

 It will be alfo necefiary in mild weather to give them 

 air, which you may do by refting the lower part of the 

 frame on a brick fet edge-vv-ays, placing a malt before the 

 opening, that the air may gently tranfpirc to them thro' 

 its openings, remembenng to cover the glals with matts 

 and firaw afc night, and to ufe the woollen fliutters at 

 night alfo, and in the day in cold damp weather. If you 

 perceive the heat in your bed to be too violent, thruft in 

 three or four fticks to the depth of two feet into the 

 fides of the bed, to remain for a day, leaving the holes 

 open, uncil you pcrceFve the heal abate; but if the 

 warmth declines too much, make up the holes with frefh 

 dung and litter to recover the heat ; and fiiould^t at any 

 time fo far decline, as not to be recovered by this expe- 

 dient, the bed mufl be lined ; that is, to. remove fonic of 

 the dung on the outfide to be replaced with frefii, which 

 will effectually recover it. 



In about three weeks the plants will begin to put 

 out their rough leaves, when another bed is to be made 

 as bro:id as the former, and fo long as to receive two 

 large lights ; when you mulT provide fome loofe wrought 

 07.ier b.'.ficets eight inches diameter, and fix inches deep, 

 with two imall handles to each, to be fet in the bed to 



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