Bo O° R i. Book I. 
hook it down, and svi as in Gilliflowers, Infach Plants as are 
unapt to root, ‘bind the upper end of the flit very bard with a Pack- 
thred or Wier, which will {top the fap, and haften the effe@ defired 5 
and fail not:to put fome rank Earth about the place layed, The beft 
time to lay Greens, ot indeed any other Plants, is about the middle 
of Auguft, that they may preparefor rooting at the Spring: thefe 
Layers having paffed a year in the ground, will beready to be taken 
off; andif you find them well rooted; it will be feafonable to re- 
move them; otherwife they may ftay a year longer, All Layers 
muft. be frequently watered; which will caufe them to root the. 
better, 3 | | 3 
Cuttings are to be taken as foon as the Sap begins torife, and cut 
floping from a kno: or joynt,at the lower end, like a Deets foot, and 
lett about a foot long, makeadeep Trench and lay them therein a 
little floping, -fill the Trench with good Earth preffed down fome- 
thing hard, within.two fingers of the fmaller ends, All Plants that 
willgrow of Cutting, will root fooner being Jayed, but Cuttings 
(of {uch Plants as we have not our felves) may be,had ot others, and 
ed, asthe former, 
As for Budding or Inoculating of Rofes, it is performed after the 
faineymanner as:that -of Fruits, where among the feveral ways of 
ering 
Grafting you 
) direction for the doing thereof, 
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"When you ateto make a Hot Bed, caft all your Horfe-dung and 
wet Litter ona heap, ina corner of the Stable, that is of a fortnights © 
gathering, more or lefs, according to your ftore; then in the place 
where you intend to make it, knock in four Stakes, which muft be 
left.a yard at leaftaboveground, place them at the corners, fo that 
the Bed may be four foot broad, and of what length you pleafe, then 
Jay the Horfe-dung with the wet Litter betwixt the Stakes fuitably, 
not more {hort dung in-one place than another, ‘untill you have rais'd 
it two foot high} whichtread down hard all over, and let not one 
place be fofter than another 5; then in ‘the fame manner raife ittwo 
toot higherjewhich tread down'as the former, and fo proceed untill 
you have raifed theBed a full yard high after it is hard trodden ; 
which done, knockin moreiStakes aboutit, beat up the fides clofe, 
and: wrap: it abour with Jargé ropes: of Hay, or long Litter, two 
wreaths above the dung, chen take fome of the Barth of-an old hor 
‘Bed, or of the beft in your Kitchin- garden, and fift ic, whichlay on 
your Bed four inches thick arch it over with {mall Poles, andco- 
ver it wich Mats, Hair-cloth, ot Canvas, which will caufeit to heat 
in four or five days; then give ic air, and when the violent heat is 
over fow your Seeds, and cover the Bed again; thenexeday, if you 
find the Bed over hot, give itmore air 3 if tod cold, caft fome Straw 
on the covering untill the heat recurn; which by thrafting your fin- 
ger into the Barth you may: find: whether:too hot or cold and by 
thismeans by airing and covering you may keep the Bed ina conftant 
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temper, 
in that cafe chiefly to be ufed, . Thefe Cuttings muft be often water- _ 
leas ye Giggs is 
