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have, now and then, little fprinklings of water. Mind 

 to cover the glafies every night with mats. 



^ But in raifmg the above annuals, if it is required to 

 be faving of hot dung and trouble ; and that if there are 

 cucumber or melon hot-beds at work, may fow them in 

 pots, and place them in thofe beds to raife the plants, 

 which may be afterwards tranfplanted into a nurfery hot- 

 bed, to forward them to a proper fize. See April and May. 



For the further management of thefe plants, and Tow- 

 ing a general fupply of the fame forts, together with fe- 

 veral other tender annuals, fee the work of iht Plea/ure 

 'Garden in March, 



Soiv Ten-nvcek Stocks, 



The ten-week flock is a pretty annual: none make a 

 more agreeable appearance in the borders or clumps, and 

 it continues a long time in bloom. It is now time, to- 

 wards the latter end of this month, to fow a little of the 

 feed, to raife a few plants to blow early in the fummer. 



This feed may either !>:; fown in a flight hot-bed, or 

 in a warm border, or bed of natural earth, for the plants 

 are tolerably hardy ; but by fowing the feed at this time 

 in a moderate hot-bed, it will bring the plants on much 

 forwarder, and the blow will be ftronger and earlier, by 

 three weeks or a month, than thofe fown at the fame 

 time in the natural ground. 



But where a hot-bed cannot be readily procured, then, 

 in the lafl v/eek of this month, let a fmall fpot of a warm 

 border be neatly dug, and there mark out a bed about 

 three feet broad ; fow the feed tolerably thick on the 

 furface, and rake it in neatly ; then arch the bed over 

 with hoops, and cover them with mats every night, and 

 in bad Weather. But if the above bed of natural earth" 

 could be covered with a frame and-glafs, or with hand- 

 glalTes, it would be a great advantage to the plants. Or 

 the feed may be fowed in one or more large pots, in or- 

 der for moving under occafional ihelter of a frame, &;c. 

 in cold nights, or into a hot-bed. 



When the plants have been up about a month or fix 

 weeks, they fhould be- tranfplanted where they are to re- 

 main. 



But if your plants Hand thick in the feed-bed, fome 

 of them, when they have been up about three weeks, 



may 



