6 The Kitchen Garden. fjan. 



Ten or twelve days after lining the fides, remove the litter 

 from the two ends of the bed, and apply alfo a lining of hot 

 dung to each end, as above ; it will again augment the heat 

 for another fortnight to come. 



After pertorming the linings, it mav be proper to lay 

 a quantity of dry long litter of any 'kind all round the 

 general lining, wiiich will protect the whole from driving 

 cold rains and fnow, and preferve the heat of the bed in 

 a fine growing temperature. 



By applying theie linings of hot dung in due time, and 

 renewing them as there fhali be occcilion, you may preferve 

 the bed in a proper temperature of heat, fo as to continue 

 the phints in a free grov/ing ftate in the fame bed, until they 

 are of due fize for ridging out into the larger hot-beds, where 

 they are to remain to produce their fruit. 



Obferve, however, that where there is plenty of hot dung, 

 and every proper convenience, you may, in order to for- 

 ward the plants as much as pollible, prepare a fecond hot-bed 

 by wa}'- of a nurfery, about a fortnight after making the 

 feed-bed, in order to receive the plants therefiom hi their 

 p<n?, when the heat begins to decline, plunging the pots in 

 the earth as above directed; continuing to fupport the heat 

 of this bed as already exhibited, and in which the plants 

 may be nurfed and forwarded, till they acquire a proper 

 fize for tranfplanting finally into -the fruiting hot-beds. See 



7ii\Vt 77lO'nth. 



When they have formed their two firfl: rough leaves, 

 about two or three inches broad, and have fliOt one or two 

 joints, they are then of a proper fize for ridging out into 

 the large hot-beds, u'here they are linally to remain. See 

 ?iext month. 



But the plants mull: be ifopt or top'd at the firft or fecond 

 joint, /. e. the top of the firit advancing fnoot, when formed 

 in the centre like a fmall bud, fhould be pinched off clofe to 

 the joint, as dire(51:ed in February, which fee. 

 Care of the F'arious Horts of Lettuce, 



If you have lettuce plants infratnes, or under hoop-arches 

 defended with mats, let them enjoy the open air at all op- 

 portuniries, by taking the glaffcs, or other flickers, entire- 

 ly off, when the weather is mild and dry. 



But in very wet weather, and when (liarp cutting winds 

 prevail, keep the glaffes over them, obferving toraife them 

 a good height, to admit air to the plants : for if they 

 are kept too clofe, they will be drawn up weak, and come 



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