^04 The Kitchen Garden, [May. 



The plants muft alfo be allowed a great lliare of free air, 

 very rnild day, for the fun has now great power; and if 

 ihe glaifes were to be kept tDO clofe, it would deftroy the 

 piants. Therefore raife the upper end of the lights every 

 ■warm funny morning, about feven, eight, or nine o'clock, 

 according to the temperature of the weather ; and accord- 

 ing as the heat of the day increafes, continue raifmg the glaills 

 a proportionable height from one to two or three inchps. 



The lights mull: be ihut clofe down every evening, about 

 five or fix o'clock; but in cold evenings Ihut them down 

 an hour or two foorier. 



Shade the plants from the fun in very hot funny days* 

 The time to do this is from eleven to two o^clock. 



Where the glalfes are pretty clofe to the plants, it will 

 now be advifeable to allow them a larger fpace of room, by 

 raifmg the frame five or fix inches at bottom, the plants 

 will then be able to Hand the fun with Icfs danger of 

 icorching their leaves, and parching up their roots^ Con- 

 tinue covering the glaffes every night with mats all this 

 inonth, generally covering up tov/ards fun-fetting, and 

 imcovsr. foon after its rifing in the morning. 



Cuciimhers to be plant &d under Hand or BcU-glaJfa' 

 Cucumbers may now be planted out on hot- bed ridges. 

 Dander hand or beli-glailes. 



The plants being raifed for this purpofe,. in March or 

 lall: month, fhould be planted out the beginning and mid- 

 >dle of this, and they will begin, to bear abou.t the begin- 

 ning, or towards the middle of June, and will continue 

 bearing till the cold Aveathi^r deftroys the plants. 



The hot-beds or ridges for this purpoie;, muft be made 

 of good hot dung, as formerly obferved ; and ma^ be made 

 the greateil part within the ground, as they will not re- 

 quire to be lined. Choofe for this purpofe a rich fpot of 

 ground; there dig a trench, a yard wide, and fifteen or 

 eighteen inches deep ; laying the earth that comes out 

 iieatly all along the fide of x.'LiQ trench. Fill this trenck 

 with fieih hot dung,, and raife it not lels than from fix to 

 eight> ten, or twelve inches above the furface of the 

 ground ; for the bed ilioujd be, at leaft,, two feet thick of 

 dang, if made the beginning or middle of the month, nor 

 in,deed Ihould it be much lefs than that at the latter end 

 thereof. Therl cover the bed v/ith the earth that was thrown 

 mX, of the trench;,, niue inches thick over the top of the 



