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the heat fo much longer. They fhould be bricked upon 

 all fides, and at bottom, as well to hinder the earth 

 from ialling, as to prevent its mixing with the bark. 

 This bark may be taken from the tanners pits, and 

 fhould have one week to drain off the fuperfluous moi- 

 flure, otherwife the bark will not heat. 



When you put it into your bed-pits, lay it in lightly 

 and even, not treading it down with your feet, as you 

 do dung; for this would make it cake, mould, and ne- 

 ver heat ; put no dung below it, for that would make 

 it heat too foon, which would have a very bad ef- 

 fect:. The tan will keep in good heat for four months ; 

 when the heat fubfides, lay on the quantity of half 

 of the depth of your bed of quite new bark, and it 

 will foon recover its fermentation, and continue in 

 good plight for five months longer, Thefe beds of 

 bark are not to be covered with earth, as they are 

 ufed to raife hard-fhelled exotick feeds in pots, or e- 

 ven in the bark itfelf, and for preferving the mod 

 tender exotick plants in floves ; and are the moft 

 fuccefsful beds for bringing the Pine-apples or Ananas to 

 perte£tion. 



If you ufe tanners-bark for your Melon-beds, you 

 muft cover it with ten inches of proper earth ; and 

 in it I have fruited the Cantalupe Melons to great 

 perfection. 



After the bark has ferved the hot-beds, the finefl: par- 

 ticles of it, when taken out by the riddle, and expofed 

 to rot, is a very good manure for fome flowers ; viz. 

 the Oriental Hyacinths, and particularly the Oriental 

 Narciflfus : and the groffer part is a very good covering 

 for their beds, or to put into the alleys of their beds in 

 winter, to protect them from the froft. 



KAIL, 



