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its sides, and generally about twelve inches high in front, 

 and eighteen inches on the back side. 



Dig your bed thus marked otf, and cover it with litter 

 from the horse stable — stamp down your several layers, 

 until your bed is raised to the height you wish— then 

 cover the bed with a layer of rich earth from 6 to 12 

 inches thick, and set on your frame; in 8 or 10 days it 

 will generally be ready for planting, if the weather is 

 mild. If the fermentation is too powerful, and the heat 

 too active, give it air by raising the lights in your frame, 

 until you have obtained a right temperature — (which 

 you may observe by placing your hand upon the bed, 

 or thrusting it into it.) You may then plant your early 

 cucumbers, radishes, salads, &c. — those plants will soon 

 come forward, and may be transplanted into other hot 

 beds, not so powerful, or promiscuously into the garden, 

 and covered with other small frames, of 1, 2, and 4 

 panes of glass, according to circumstances, and the re- 

 mainder may stand for use. These plants may be gen- 

 erally brought to perfection about one month earlier 

 than in open ground. 



TO MAKE COMPOSTS FOR PLANTS. 



These may be reduced to light sandy loam from old 

 pastures. Strong loam approaching nearly to brick earth, 

 from the same source. Peat earth from the surface of 

 heaths or commons. Bog earth, from bogs or morasses. 

 Vegetable earth, from the decayed leaves, stalks, cow 

 dung, &c. Sand earth, sea sand, drift sand, or pow- 

 dered stone, so as to be as free as possible from iron, 

 lime, rubbish, and, lastly, common garden earth; there 

 are no known plants that will not grow or thrive in one 

 or other of these earths, alone, or mixed with some other 

 earth, or with rotten dung, or leaves. 



TO SELECT GOOD GARDEN SEEDS, &C'. 



1. The management of a garden (summarily speaking) 

 consists in attention and application; the first should be 

 of that wary and provident kind, as not only to do well 

 in the present, but for the future; and the latter should 



