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for tender seedlings in the months of spring. In 

 higher situations a little help of warm dung will be 

 requisite ; but as the trouble of making a hotbed 

 might be judged too much to be exchanged for the 

 privilege of eating marrow, the author defers the 

 process till speaking of certain beauties and curio- 

 sities of the flower department, when it will appear 

 that the same apparatus which serves for succada 

 will serve also for amaranths and marigolds, and 

 prevent the foolishness of continual sowing what 

 does not once in ten years yield the recompence of 

 a flower; and when it will further appear, that by 

 a new construction of the hotbed frame, a cover of 

 varnished cloth, at sixpence a yard, will answer all 

 the purposes of expensive glass, supplying at a lit- 

 tle cost all that requires artificial heat, so far as 

 use or ornament needs to be consulted for the manse 

 garden. 



