3S6 The Kitchen Garden. [Aug. 



A place is to be prepared for the bed, where tlie plants 

 may have the full winter fun. 



Let a trench be dug about fix Inches deep, and the 

 breadth of a common cucumber, or melon frame, and 

 the length of one, two, or more frames, according to the 

 quantity of plants. 



Then get fome new hot dung, and with this let a bed 

 be made in the above trench, making it about a foot 

 or £fteen inches thick of dung, and fet on the frame, 

 and earth the bed the depth of five or fix inches with rich 

 light earth, and here the plants are to be fet in rows from 

 the back to the front of the frame : plant them two inches 

 and a half apart in the rows ; allow the diftance of three 

 inches between row and row, and as foon as planted let 

 them be moderately watered. 



Theil put on the glafles ; but obferve, to leave them 

 open about a hand's breadth, that the Ileam which the 

 dung will occafion, may freely pafs away ; and when the 

 plants have tak^n root, let the lights be taken quite off 

 every mild dry day. 



The plants, with the afliftance of the above flight hot- 

 bed, will foon take root ; and if they are fmall will for- 

 ward them greatly in their growth, fo as to acquire a due 

 degree of ftrength, before the time of the fevere weather 

 begins. 



They are to remain in this bed all winter ; for the heat 

 is only intended to ftrike the plants and fet them a going 

 at firft ; for it will not laft much abov€ a fortnight. 



Although I have mentioned the planting the above 

 plants on a moderate hot-bed, yet where the plants are 

 tolerably forward in their growth, they may be planted 

 in a bed of natural earth, defended as above, with a 

 frame and glaffes, fetting the plants the above mentioned 

 diftance, moderately watered at planting ; and afterwards, 

 managed as hinted below, and in the winter months as 

 aforefaid ; however if they at this time, are planted in 

 their winter beds formed of a little warm dung, &c. juft 

 to ftrike the plants, it will be a great advantage. 



In one or another of thefe beds, the plants are to re- 

 main all winter; and are, during that time, to be defend- 

 ed, in rainy and fevere weather, by putting on the glafles ; 

 but in mild and dry days no covering muft be over the 

 plants : they muft have the free air at all fuch times. 



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