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A^ake the hot-bed about two feet high ; put on the frame, 

 and then earth the bed, five or fix inches thick, for the re» 

 ception of the feed. 



The method of fowing thefe feeds is this : draw fhnllow 

 drills from the back to the front of the frame, two or three 

 inches afunder : fow the feeds therein, each fort feparate, 

 and not too thick ; cover the fmalleft feed about a quarter 

 of aninch» and the largeft ne;ir half an inch. When th^ 

 plants are come up, let them have air, by raifing the glaiTeS 

 two or three inches high every day; when they have been up 

 fome time, and have got a little ilrength, they muft h6 

 gradually hardened, to bear the open air, by taking th^ 

 lights entirely off every mild day. Refrefh them now and 

 then with moderate fprinkiings of water : fome of them 

 will be fit to prick out next month, and all of th^^m in May. 

 See thofe months. 



Note, In default of frames and lights, may ufe hand or 

 bcll-glaiTes, or oited-paper frames; or you may arch the 

 bed over with hoops, and in nights and bad weather, 

 cox'-er it with large garden- mats, or canvas cloths, &c. 



Where a hot-bed cannot be conveniently obtained, yoii 

 may, towards the end of the month, fow fome of the above- 

 mentioned annual flower-feeds on a warm border, where 

 the earth is rich and light, and cover it occafionally with 

 mats. 



The forts that will fucceed by that method, are China 

 aflers, ten-week ftocks, India pink, African and French 

 fnarigold, chryfanthemum, purple and tree amaranthus, 

 perficarias, fcabioufes and convolvulus major: fow the 

 feeds thin, each fort feparate, and arch the bed over with 

 hoops : then, every night, and in bad weather, let mats hs 

 drawn acrofs the hoops. With this management the plants 

 will come up, and grow freely ; and if you refrefh them 

 with water in dry weather, they will be fit to plant out 

 about the end of May or beginning of June, and will 

 flower pretty flrong, and in tolerable good time in aa- 

 tumn. 



Or, for want either of a hot-bed or any of the other 

 above-mentioned conveniencies, moll of the feeds will fuc- 

 ceed in a warm berder next month, without any pro- 

 teftion. 



For their full management^ fee the work of the three 

 fucceeding months. 



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