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will make Way for the Steam of 

 the Bed to pafs off : But if it 

 fliould prove cool, you muft lay 

 fbme ^Litter about the Sides, and 

 cover "the Glafs well with Mats or 

 Straw every Night, and in bad 

 "Weather, which will foon bring it 

 to a Hear. In about five Days 

 after the Seed is (own, the Plants 

 will appear above-ground j when 

 you muft carefully give them Air, 

 to prevent their being fuffocated by 

 the Steam ot the Bed, as alio turn 

 the Glafs every Day, when the 

 Weather is fair, to dry off" the 

 Damp which fettles upon the Glafsi 

 and if the Weather fliould not ad- 

 mit of the Glafs lying the wrong 

 Side upwards to dry, then you 

 muft only turn it, and wipe off all 

 the Moifturewith a woollen Cloth, 

 and turn the Glafs again j for if the 

 Moifture, which is coUedled upon 

 the Undcrfide of the Glafs, be fuf- 

 fer'd to fall upon the Plants, it will 

 occafion their changing yellow, and 

 caufe them to be very weak} for 

 this proceeds from the Steam of 

 the Dung and Earth, and the Per- 

 fpiration of the Plants, which be- 

 ing confin'd and mix'd together, 

 becomes of a rancid Nature, and 

 £o proves deftrudtive to whatever 

 Plants it lodges upon, or that im- 

 bibe any Part of it. 



You Ihouid alfo, fb fbon as the 

 Plants appear, caft up a frefh Heap 

 of new Dung, as before -, and after 

 having lain in the Heap about fix 

 Days, you may make a new Bed in 

 the Manner before directed, cover- 

 ing the Dung three Inches thick 

 with good frelh light Earth ,• then 

 put on the Frame and Glaffes, and 

 let it remain two or three Days 

 for the great Heat to pafs off before 

 you fet the Plants therein, that the 

 Bed may be of a moderate Temper, 

 otherwife the Roots of the Plants 



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will burn : When you find your 

 Bed of a praper Temper for Heat, 

 which you may eafily know, by 

 thrufting your Finger down in the 

 Earth, letting it remain a fmall 

 Time, and if you feel no violent 

 Heat, then you may be fure there 

 will be no Danger of injuring them 

 thereby : Therefore you Ibould take 

 up the Plants carefully out of the 

 Seed-bed, (raifing them with your 

 Finger, that the Roots may not be 

 injur'dj and prick them into the 

 new Bed, about three Inches Di- 

 ftance each Way, covering the 

 GlalTes with Mats, if the Sun Ibould 

 be warm, till they have taken Root, 

 after which you nmft be very care- 

 ful to give them Air in Proportion 

 to the Heat of the Bed, otherwife 

 they will draw up very weak, and 

 change yellow: You muft alio, as 

 the Stems of the Plants advance in 

 Height, put in fome dry frefti Earth 

 between them, to earth the Shanks, 

 which will greatly increafe their 

 Strength j and be very careful to 

 wipe the Moifture off from the 

 Glafles, as was before directed, for 

 the Reafons already laid downj and 

 proportion your Covering of Mats 

 every Night to the Heat of the 

 Bed. 



In about a Fortnight after tli2 

 Plants are prick'd out, they will 

 begin to fliew the third for what, 

 in the Gardeners Language, is call'd 

 the rough j Leaf; at which tinie 

 you muft be provided with a frefli 

 Parcel of new Dung in Proportion 

 to the Quantity of Holes you in- 

 tend to plant, allowing a ful\ Load 

 (which commonly contains four- 

 teen good Wheel-barrowsj t.o each 

 Hole : When the Dung has lain in 

 the Heaps ilx or eight Days, yoa 

 muft dig out a Trench in Propor- 

 tion to the Length and Br eadth of 

 your Frames, and about a Foot 



deep, 



