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of the heat will be pretty well over ; when the bed 

 muft be covered with frefh light earth, taking care 

 that it be not too wet when it is laid on. Let this 

 be dil'pofed fmooth and even all over the top of the bed, 

 and about fix inches thick. Give it a little air now and 

 then, to let off the fleam. 



When the earth is become warm by the heat of the 

 bed, then is the time to put in your feeds, covering them 

 about half an inch deep. 



When the feeds are up, and the leaf is fully expand- 

 ed, and the rough leaf begins to make its appearance, 

 which will be in about feven or eight days after fowing, 

 you fhould then be provided with another quantity of 

 dung, in order to make a fecond bed for the reception of 

 thefe plants. This dung fliould be well mixed together, 

 and thrown up in a heap, as the former, and fuffered to 

 lie fo for fix or feven days, till the rank heat of it 

 fnall have paffed off. If it Ihou'd be dry, and full of 

 long litter, throw a few pails of water over it; which 

 will caufe it to ferment, and keep it from burning. This 

 fecond bed muft be made of the fame thicknefs as the 

 firlf, and of a length proportioned to the number of 

 plants which it is intended to contain. The furface 

 of it mufl: be covered over with cow-dur.g, as was 

 before dirtcled for the feed-bed. Then put on the 

 frame and lights; and in two days after the bed is 

 made, cover it with old tan, or light earth, about eight 

 inches thick. 



On the next day the bed will be fit for the reception 

 of the plant?, if the dung has been properly worked up. 



When the plants in the feed-bed have one fmall rougU 

 leaf, it will then be proper to take llieni out v.ith care, 

 and place them in pots about feven inches wide and five 

 inches deep, filled with good rich earth, placing two 

 plants in each pot, alter having fccured the holes at the 

 bottom, 'f'hen plunge lliem up to the rim in the 

 new betl. But oblerve, if the weather llionld be fo 

 clear, that the fun Paine warm, then they muft be fliad- 

 cd till they have taken frtili root. And, ii, ih.e mould 

 fhould appear dry, it will be proper to uivc them a little 

 water, but fparingly at tin- feafon. It will be alio ne- 

 ceffary to cover them u:i!i mats or ftruw, ti^.at they mav 



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