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weather in Autumn, then will wholly periih, 

 never to flower again. 



Obferve, that of the above colleflion, the 

 humble and fenfitive plants fliould generally 

 be retained always under glafles ; act mate- 

 rial to have a hot-bed after May, but kept 

 cither under a frame and lights, or in a green- 

 houfe or glafs-cafe, or any room windows 

 within, of a dwelling-houfe, principally next 

 the fun ; for, if fully expofed to the open air 

 and weather, they lofe the fenfitive property 

 of their leaves. 



To raife the above clafs of Annuals in full 

 perfe6lion, either make a fmail hot-bed of warm 

 hoife-ftable dung, for a one or two-light gar- 

 den frame about a yard high, in which to fow 

 the feed, or in any cucumber or melon hot^^ 

 bed that is in cultivation at the proper feafon, 

 March, or beginning of April, and that there 

 is room to place fome pots of feeds ; however, 

 a fmall hot-bed made wholly for that purpofe, 

 will be moll convenient : having light line 

 earth on the bed, five or fix inches thick, 

 cither fow the feed in the earth of the bed, in 

 fmall drills drawn with your finger, or on the 

 furface, fowing each fort feparate, and cover 

 the fmall feeds only about a quarter of an inch 

 deep, larger feeds more in proportion, or 

 fome may be fowed in pots, plunged half-way 

 or more into the earth of the bed ; and when 

 the plants come up, admit air every day, by 

 propping up the upper end of the glafs an inch 

 or two ; give occafional very light watering's, 

 keep the glafs llmt clofe of cold nights, and 



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