iQ.\. The Pleasure, or [Apr. 



The Pleasure, or Flowe'r Garden-. 



Tender awiual Flo-ojer Plants. 



MAKE a new hot-bed, wherein to tranfplant the bell 

 kinds of the early annuals, which were fown in Fe- 

 bruary, or beginning, or any time of March. 



Suchascocks-combs, tricolors, double balfams, and globe 

 amaranthus, zgg plant, double ftramonium, fenfitive plant, 

 and diamond ficoides, or ice plant. 



V/here thefe curious plants are required in any tolerable 

 degree of perfedlion, they muft at this time, be brought 

 forward, by the afiirtance of a regular and due degree of 

 artificial heat under frames and glaffes : and where that 

 is properly attended to, the plants will be large aud beau- 

 tiful by the' end of June, .or beginning of July. 



Therefore, thofe tender annuals railed by fowing at the 

 end of February, or any time lafl: month, fliould now have 

 another hot-bed, in which to prick them to forward their 

 growth as above ; or as directions are given in March, 

 that fuch of thefe tender plants as were raifed the pre- 

 ceding, or early in that month, be pricked out from the 

 feed bed, into a new hot-bed, made for that purpofe, in 

 which they being pricked three or four inches aiunaer, and 

 which diftance being fufncient room, for them to grow, for 

 about three weeks or a month, but not longer ; becaufe 

 in that time the plants will be fo for advanced in their 

 growth, as to interfere with each other ;^ and muft then 

 be allowed a greater diilance, by removing them into ano- 

 ther frefh bed, which may be made any time in this 

 month, as you fhall fee occafion, in regard to the growth 

 of the plants. 



Make the hot-bed, for the above purpofe, of the bell 

 hot-dung, fuch as has been firH very v/ell prepared ; and 

 let the bed be made full two feet thick, and fet a frame 

 tl.erron. 



When the burning heat of the bed is over, lay in the 

 earth; this muft be light and rich, not fifted, but very well 

 broken with the fpade and hands, and muft be laid fix or 

 {^\t\\ inches thick on every part ; and when the earth has 

 been on the bed twenty-four hours, or thereabouts, it will 

 then be in a right condition to receive the plants. 



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