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fame, or another hot-bed, four ?nches aftfn- 

 der, or fome in fmall pots, four plants iit 

 each, and plunged in the earth of the bed 5 

 give water, and fhade from the fun till they 

 take root; and managed as diredled for the 

 early plants, in regard to giving air every day, 

 occafional watering, coveringthe glafles every 

 jiight, &c. And when the plants hare pro- 

 duced their firft rough leaves, one, two erf 

 rhree inches broad, and Hopped at the firft 

 joint, by taking off the end of the fiifl runnef 

 bud, Js in the early plants aforeftid, they 

 fliould be tVanTplanted into large hot-beds, 

 ■ nxler harrd -glafles, in the middle or end of 

 April, and in May. 



• Provide for this occafion a quantity of horfe- 

 ftable dung, the long and fhort nioift litter 

 ahddung together, of a good lively heat, and 

 cither make a hot-bed on the level ground, three 

 and a half or four feet and a half wide, and two 

 feet, or two arid a half to three feet high, 

 and earthed at top fix or eight in.ches thick ; 

 or may dig a trench in any compartment ofth* 

 kitchen-garden, three to four feet wide, and 

 twelve to fifteen or eighteen inches deep, in 

 which make the hot-bed two feet or two and 

 a half depth in dung, earthed over as above, 

 with the earth digged out of the trench, form- 

 ing the top four feet wide or more : and in 

 either method, fet on the hand-glaffe^ thret 

 feet afuhder, along the middle of the bed, 

 and wheii the enrth is warm, the fame or next 

 day, remove the plants ff^m the bed:* where 

 railed, with- "baile -of earih to ihe roots, if 



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