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portions of air, to Ilrengthen and harden them 

 by degrees for pricking out : and fometimes, in 

 the middle or latter end of April, and in May, 

 in warm days, take the glafies off entirely. 



Then, when the plants are grown two, 

 three, or four inches high, proceed to prick 

 them out, fome cither into another hot-bed 

 four inches afunder, to forward them, or fome 

 into a bed of natural earth, under frames or 

 hand-glafies, or proiecled with mats of nights 

 and bad weather ; and the roll prick out in 

 May, in open beds, fix inches diilance ; or, 

 in want of the above conveniences of hot-beds, 

 frames, hand-glafles, &c. the whole may be 

 pricked out in May, when warm fettled wea- 

 ther, into beds in the full gronnd, or fome 

 planted at once into the borders, beds, &c. 

 where they are dcfigned to remain for flower- 

 ing, giving water when pricked or plarKed 

 out ; and to thofe pricked clofe in beds, may 

 readily give fnade of mats from the mid-day 

 fun, till they take good root, and flievv figns 

 of renewed growth ; giving ajfo repeated wa- 

 terings to the whole, till that period. 



Thole pricked out, permit to advance in 

 growth three or four weeks, or till the middle 

 or end of May or beginning of June, then 

 taking opportunity of fhowery weather, if pof- 

 fible, to plant them out finally, or perform it 

 in an evening, taking up the plants with fmall 

 balls of earth about the roots, arid plant them 

 in the borders, pots, and other compartments 

 where you intend them to remain, difpofing 

 them in a. varied order. The lowcit-growin^ 



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