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morning, and covered up at 4 in the evening with 

 about two iuches thick of hay and mats. Air was 

 continued day and night. 



The frames were uncovered about 9 o'clock in the 

 morning, and covered up in the evening with about 

 three inches thick of hay and mats. To-day I laid 

 fome earth round each hill, and covered the furface 

 'of the hills among the plants about half an inch thick 

 with fine fifted leaf earth. I then flopped the plants, 

 thinned their leaves, and laid the fnoots out regular 

 on the hills, and pegged them down to the earth 

 with little v/ooden pegs, and I removed the plunged 

 thermometer, and fet it in the hill about ten inches 

 north from the ilems of the plants, with its bulb fix 

 inches below the furface of the earth; I made the 

 earth clofe to its tube to prevent the external air in 

 the bed from penetrating too quickly to the bulb ; 

 I fet the other thermometer by it with its bulb on the 

 furface of the earth of the hill, and I Ttuck a Pack 



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