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 any I'mall weak leaves near the ftem, or any very weak 

 runners, take them away. 



If the plants are managed according to the direflions 

 here given, they will be fit to be planted out for fruit- 

 ing in about fix weeks after iowini<. But in your pr >- 

 ceeding, you muft with torecall make the necellary al- 

 lowance for ihe time of the dung's workin;/, and the 

 beds coming to a proper heat ; that the plants may not, 

 when they are arrived at this pitch, wait for the bed. 

 If the foil where you make your bed be very dry, you 

 may now dig a trench about twelve or fourteen inches 

 deep, anfwering to the length and brc;,dth oi your 

 frame ; otherwiie it is always beft to make it on the 

 plain furface of the ground. You are to make this bed 

 two feet wider than the frame, mixing the long and 

 fhort dung well together, that it may heat icgularly. 

 Let the back part be raifed half a foot higher than the 

 front. This will give the g!;ifs a greater dope to the 

 fun, and the plants will receive the benefit of it. This 

 bed mufl: alfo be covered with cow-dung, as was di- 

 reded for the others, and afterwards with mould, about 

 three inches thick, all over the furface. 



Three days after the bed is made, you are io put 

 about three pecks of good earth under the centre of 

 each light, raifing it into a fort of an hillock, witli a 

 defcent flope around. Then put on the lii^hts, tilting 

 each light with a notched flick, that tlie fieam of the 

 bed may pafs off. In about two days the earth will be 

 entirely warm. Then carefully turn the plants out of 

 the pots, having firft watered them, that the earth may 

 not fall from the roots, and put two plants on each hil- 

 lock ; without diflurbing the ball of earth which is 

 about their roots. If the mould fhould appear dry, give 

 them a little water ; but not till yon have taken off the 

 chill from it, by fetting it on the dung a few hours be- 

 fore it is wanted for ufe. Neither let it be too u arm : 

 For that would prove as hurtful to the plants as the 

 contrary quality. If the fun fhould fliinc out, fhade 

 them till they have taken frefli root. F^ut if the wea- 

 ther prove cold and foggy while the plants are young, 

 tilt up the lights according to the heat of the bed ; and 

 hang a mat gently over that part o( the light which is 

 I ' tilted. 



