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and windy juil afler, the bed was for a few days ren-* 

 dered too cold, and when the lining came to its full 

 flrength of heat, the fines were for a few days ren- 

 dered rather too warm, and confequently the plants 

 received a fmall check. Again it is to be feen that on 

 the 2oth of November iyg2 I covered the fiues thinly 

 with mould, and from that time until the 2 0th of 

 February 1793, the flues remained thinly covered. 

 The reafon of keeping the flues thus covered with 

 mould during that time was merely to fave a little 

 labour of watering ; for while the mould continues 

 moifl upon the flues, vapours arife therefrom, and 

 when mould on the flues is wetted, it retains the 

 moiilure longer than the tiles of the flues do. But 

 it is the befl way during the w^inter to keep the flues 

 entirely bare of mould, and to water them as occ^- 

 fion may require. 



Except the above-mentioned, all the refl of the 

 management held forth in my journal will do, an4 

 will in future be a guide and direciory to myfelf, 

 fo far as relates to the culture of the cucumber. 



To thofe who may think proper to ufe my jour- 

 nal as a help in the management of early cucum- 

 bers, I would recommend that they fliould look 

 to it about a week or ten days before, and as 

 long after, the day of the month on which they want 

 directions to go by. This is proper ; becaufe, for 

 inHiance, the work which I had done about the bed on 

 January 1 5th, 1 793, may require to be done on the St!^ 

 of January in the year 1794, or perhaps it fliould be 

 deferred till the 22d or thercabciit, as the heat anci 



goodnefs 



