CUCUMBER PLANTS. J^J 



The frames were uncovered about 9 o'clock In the 

 morning, and covered up in the evening with abou^ 

 four inches' thick of hay and mats. The lights were 

 kept clofe fhut down till i o'clock, when a little 

 air was admitted, and continued till 3 o'clock, and 

 then the lights were fhut down again for the night. 

 The linings were raifed as high as the furface of the 

 mould in the frames with hut dung. 



About 3 o'clock in the afternoon, by trial, I found 

 the water underneath the ice in the pond to raife the 

 thermometer to '}^^;^ and that running out of a pipe 

 into the pond, raifed It to 39, and the fpring fi'oni 

 whence the faid water came, raifed it to 45 degrees ; 

 fo that the water, by running about a quarter of a 

 mile through the pipe in the earth, had become fix 

 degrees colder than Vv hen In the fpring. 



Sunday^ 



