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cover it with mats or ftraw litter; and, 

 when the plants are advanced an inch or two 

 in growth, draw up the llrongcft, and prick 

 them, Tome in the fame, or wholly into a new 

 hot-bed, either for a one-light box, or of 

 larger dimenfions for a two or three-light 

 frame, placing them four or five to fix inches 

 dillance ; or fome may be pricked fmgly in fmall 

 pots ; giving water to the whole at planting, 

 and fhaded from the mid-day fun till they take 

 good root; continuing them in this bed three 

 or four weeks, or more, till they have ad- 

 vanced in growth, as to require more room ; 

 then, if fome are thinned out with balls, and 

 planted in pots fingly, and placed in another 

 new hot-bed a foot afunder,itwill forward them 

 confiderably, the others remaining in the 

 pricked-out bed, being thinned as above, 

 and the bed lined with fome hot dung, applied 

 to the fides to renew the heat, they will alfo 

 advance freely in growth. Supply the whole 

 with frefh air, and neceflary waterings, ac- 

 cording as the earth becomes dry. 



When the plants of the larger growing 

 kinds have advanced in growth upward to 

 touch the glafies, the frame may be raifed at 

 bottom five or fix inches to give a proper 

 fcope above to advance in height. 



But when intended to draw any particular 

 larger forts to a tall growth, as the large cock's- 

 combs, tricolors, bicolors, balfams, egg-plants. 

 Sec. fome of the ilrongeft plants fhould be 

 taken up with balls of earth, and planted ia 

 hrgiik pots, one plant in each, and plunged 



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