102 THE VEGETABLE CULTIVATOR. 



in which a trench should be thrown out for any 

 number of glasses, at three feet six inches distance, 

 about a foot deep, and about three feet or three feet 

 six inches wide, laying the earth regularly on each 

 side of the trench, which should be filled up with 

 well-prepared hot dung to full two feet in thickness, 

 well beat down with the fork ; and if lightly trod- 

 den down, it can be better levelled to receive the 

 mould, which may be put on immediately afterwards 

 to the depth of eight or ten inches : should heavy rain 

 intervene, the surface must have some sort of tern- 

 porary covering. .As soon as the heat is found to 

 have risen throughout the mould, it should be 

 levelled. A line is then to be drawn in the centre, 

 on which the glasses are to be placed at three feet 

 six inches from the outside of the first glass ; after 

 which the plants may be turned carefully out of the 

 pots, and planted, without disturbing the balls, 

 under the centre of each glass, about an inch or so 

 deeper than they were before. The glasses are 

 then to be set on, and should the sun come out 

 warm, and the earth be rather dry, a little water 

 will be necessary (rather of a tepid nature), as well 

 as a little shade for a day or two, if the sun is very 

 hot. The shading of hand-glasses may be done 

 very expeditiously by sprinkling the glasses with 

 water, on which a little fine earth may afterwards 

 be strewed, and which will be found sufficient for a 

 day or two ; the glasses must be kept close during 

 that time, the more readily to enable the plants to 

 draw fresh roots; after which air must be given 

 more or less, according to the state of the weather. 

 If the weather should prove cold and wet, a cover- 



