48 The Gardeners Kaie?tdar. Feb. 

 plants : by doing of this, the glafles may be 

 kept over the plants in bad weather, until 

 the middle or end of March, which is often 

 of great ufe to them when tlie feafon is bad, 

 and hereby they will be brought earlier to 

 flower. When this is done, great care ninft 

 be had that the earth doth not get into the 

 heart of the plants, which will greatly injure, 

 if not deftrcy them. 



The Peas and Beans, which were fown in 

 autumn, and have flood through the winter, 

 will novv' begin to advance -, therefore the 

 ground about them (hould be hoed, and the 

 earth drawn up to their flems; which will 

 flrengthen them, and guard their flems from 

 the injury of froRs ; but this (hould be done 

 in drv weather, when the furface of the 

 ground is dry, for when that is wet, it may 

 injure the tender ftems of the plants. 



Toward the end of this month, you may 

 fow fome Purflane feeds upon a moderate hot- 

 bed, which will be ht for ufe in April; tho* 

 that is earlier than the generality of people care 

 to eat it, however in fome iam-ilies it .is re- 

 quired fo foon. 



Look well to fnails and other vermin, which 

 'may be deftroyed in the holes of walls, and be- 

 hind the ftems of wall fruit trees, &c. for if 



they 



