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New Principles of Gardening. 
At the latter end of Oéfober throw up ina heap fix, eight, or 
ten Cart Loads of frefh Horfe Dung, mixed with Sea-coal Afhes, 
and watered, if very dry; and in the Operation hereof obferve, 
that you fhake and feparate the fettled parts ofthe Dung, fo that 
it may be all free and fit for working; alfo obferve, that the 
Sea-coal Afhes be well mixed, for they add very much to the 
Duration of the Heat. After your Dung has laid ina heap, 
working for the ‘Space of three or four Days, if the Quantity 
does not exceed three or four Loads, or fix or feven Days, when 
as many Loads, gc. fet out the Dimenfions of your Bed, which 
in breadth fhould be about eighteen Inches more than the breadth 
of your Frame, fo that the back and forepart of the Frame 
may ftand about nine Inches. within the upright of the Bed: 
The length of your Bed being always governed by the length 
of the Frames, I need not fay any thing on that head more, 
than that the length of the Bed fhould be always as much 
longer than the Frame as it is in breadth, vz. eighteen Inches, 
The Magnitude of. your’ Bed being thus determined, place 
in dire@ Eaft and Weft, that the reclining Glafles may be direct 
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South. Then: work. up the fame cqually, fhaking and mixing 
the: Dung and Afhes in all parts alike, free from Clods; ee. 
But do not tread it down asyou work it up, according to the 
common Way, for that Error is the caufe of that violent Heat 
which alwaysattends new Hot-Beds made that» Way. » Therefore 
to prevent fuch.immoderate Heat, which oftentimes deftroys 
good Plants, Gc..and to caufe a moderate, moift Heat, of a 
long duration, moft natural to all Vegetables, work up your Bed 
firm and tight with your Dung Fork, and, as Ifaid before, equal 
in all its parts, of fuch aheight as; when fettled, to be about 
three Feet, or three Feet and half high: Making the back part 
fome fmall matter-higher than the foremoft part, that it may 
lie a little oping towards the Sun ceat “lo bas si dindny aes 
About three Days after your Bed is made ‘twill have fettled 
its felf, at which time cover it about four or five Inches thick 
with any common fifted Earth, whicl.encompafs with: Straw- 
bands pinned down, to preferve the Earth from falling fronnoff 
the fides ; and thercon place the Afparagus Roots as) thick as 
poflibly youlcam place their Buds together, without pruning any 
part of their Roots; covering them about three Inches thick 
with common Mould, fifted or skreen’d tolerably fine. 
