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with Water (which (hould be 

 plac'd in the fame Stove at leail 

 twenty-four Hours before ufed, 

 that the Cold may be taken off) 

 at leaft once a Week or oftener, 

 according to the Temper of your 

 Stove, or as you find the Earth in 

 the Pots to require it. 



Your Plants thus managed, will, 

 by the Beginning of Feoruary, or 

 foon after, {hew their Bud for Fruit 

 in the Center of the Plant, and 

 mufl: therefore be diligently kept 

 forwarded by gently increafing the 

 Heat of the Stove, and often re- 

 peating your Watering : In the 

 middle of Fe6ruary, you mull pre- 

 pare your Tan for the Hot-bed, 

 which fliould be made at lead a 

 Month before the Plants are fet 

 into it, that the great Heat of the 

 Bed may be over, which would be 

 fiibjeft to burn the extreme Parts 

 of tlie Roots, and thereby give lo 

 great a Check to the Plants, as 

 not to be recovered again in two 

 Months; and this very often fpoils 

 the Fruit, by retarding the Growth 

 of the Plant; fo that whenever 

 they begin to recover their Vigour, 

 that Nouriihment which fhould have 

 been employ'd to increale the Bulk 

 of the Fruit, is all fpent in furnifii- 

 ing a large Top or Crown to a fmall 

 inlignificant Fruit. 



Toward the middle or latter End 

 of March (according as you find 

 the Bed in Temper, or the Wea- 

 ther favourable) you may remove 

 your Plants into the Bark-bed 

 (plunging the Pots at hrfl but half- 

 way into the Bark) that the fudden 

 Heat to their Roots may not be 

 violent, but obferve to keep your 

 Glafles cover'd in bad Wearhci* and 

 in the Night, that you may pre- 

 ferve a conftant warm Air in the 

 Bed,- and if it fhould happen to 

 prove very hot in the Day, give 



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them a little Au-, by raifing tire 

 GlalTcs with a fmall Stone ^ and ii 

 the Sun fliould fhine very hot upoa 

 the GlafTes, it would be advifeaDle 

 to fhade them in the middle of the 

 Day, from the Violence thereof, 

 which ( efpecially at their iirft 

 coming out of the Stove) would 

 alter and change the Colour of the 

 Plants, and be very prejudicial to 

 them. 



In about three Weeks, or a 

 Month's time after your Plants were 

 fet into the Bark, you may raile 

 them up again, and Air the Surface 

 of the Bark with a fmall Dung- 

 fork, and plunge the Pots down 

 to their Rims therein ; for by this 

 time there will be no Danger 

 of hurting their Roots with Heat ; 

 and obferve to give them frequent 

 Waterings, as they fhall require 

 it y and at this Time you may 

 fliift fuch of your Plants as do not 

 fruit, into larger Pots (if they re- 

 quire it ; ) and if you flir up the 

 Earth on the Surface of the Pots 

 where there is Fruit, and take ic 

 out with your Hands, filling thera 

 up again with good frefji Earth, 

 it will be of great Service to your 

 Fruit j but have a Care in this 

 Operation not to let any Earth in. 

 amongft the Leaves of the Plant, 

 nor to diflurb the Roots too much, 

 both which will be hurtful to 

 them. 



During the Summer Seafon, 

 give them frequent Waterings, and 

 fliade them from the Violence of 

 the Sun in very hot Days, and 

 give them Air, by railing the 

 GlafTes in Proportion to the 

 Warmth of the Bed and Heat of 

 the Weather ,• and if you find your 

 Bed grow cold, you mufl: flir up 

 the Bark with a Dung-fork almoft: 

 to the Bottom ; loofening and break- 

 ing the Lumps ^ and if you add a 



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