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nine, ten, or eleven o'clock, and Ihutclofe again about two, 

 three, or four, admitting a larger or fmalier portion of air, 

 according as the heat of the day increafes or decreafes. 



For the care of the other forts of iiove-plants, fee the 

 Hot-houfe of February. 



Pots of any flowering plants may ilill be introduced in 

 the hot-houfe to forward an early bloom, fuch as pinks, 

 rofes, and many others. 



Alfo pots of ilravvberrles,as in the two former monUis, 

 to continue the fuppiy of early fruit. 



Likewife a few more kidney-beans, &c. See lail month 

 and Jamary. 



APRIL. 



IVork to be done In the Kitchen Garden. 



Making Hot-beds for Cucumbers and Melons. 



HOT-BEDS for cucumbers and melons may ftill be 

 made, both for fucceflional crops to fucceed the 

 ■early ones ; and if none were made in the former months, 

 it may Hill be done, with fuccefs, to have early cuciim- 

 bers in May and June, &c. and melons in Auguil. 



Obferve the fame methods of making the bed, fowing 

 the feed, planting and managing the plants, as in the 

 three former months. 



Managing the Beds cf early Cucumber s and Melons, 



Let the cucumber and melon hot-beds which were made 

 a month or two ago, be carefully examined, and fee if 

 they are of a pjoper degree of heat. 



This lliould be particularly attended to at this feafon, 

 for thefe plants will not yield fine fruit, nor a plentiful 

 crop, if the beds are deflitute q{ a proper heat. 



'rherefore, when you perceive the heat of the beds to 

 be much failed, let it be renewed as foon as pofiible. 

 This mull be done by adding a lining of hot-dung to the 

 fides of the beds, in the manner as dircdled in the three 

 former months. 



This will greatly enliven the heat of the beds, by 

 •which means the plants will be prefervcd in a growing 

 Hate, and the fruit will fet freely, and they will alfo 

 . fwell kindly, and will grow to a handfome fize. 



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