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in a hot bed ; and according as they advance 

 in height to touch the glafies, the frame 

 ihould be raifed either by means of a polt 

 placed at each corner of the bed, or with 

 fome convenient props placed under the 

 frame, and the vacancy at bottom defended 

 with fome garden mats, or thJn boards ; or 

 for drawing thefe plants tall, a deep frame 

 three or four feet behind by two or three in the 

 front would be of much advantage in that 

 bufinefs, that when the plants in the common 

 frarne are advanced to theglailes, remove that, 

 and place the deep frame on the bed ; or a 

 drawing frame may be formed of two or three 

 divifions, to place one upon the other, as the 

 plants (hoot in height; one divifion fitted for 

 the glafles, and always placed uppermoil upon 

 the others. 



Likewife, for drawing the above kinds of 

 Tender Annuals to a large fize, a glafs cafe, 

 with upright glaffes in the front, and inclined 

 fafhes above, would be very convenient; 

 making a hot-bed in a pit within, cither of 

 horfe-dung or tanner's bark. If the former, 

 lay fome earth at top, five or fix inches thick, 

 in which to plunge the pots ; and if the latter 

 ho earth will be required, but plunge the pots 

 of plants immediately into the bark: and in 

 either of which beds, made in the above- 

 mentioned glafliary, the plants v/il I grow very 

 profperoufly, and run up tall and ftrong. 



However, for the dwarf cock's-combs, &c. 



they may be continued in hot-beds, under 



any common frame, as they feidom grow more 



A than 



