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New Principles of Gardening. 
The Heat of your Bed being moderately drawn, will caufe 
the Seed to appear above Ground about the fourth or fifth Day 
after fowing, at which Time give them all the Air and Sun that 
is poflible, fo as not too much, whereby you may lofe your Plants 
by too much Air, which is of as bad a Confequence as when 
they are ftifled for want of Airs which is difcover’d by their be- 
ing of a very pale Colour, inftead of a lively Green, and 
very much drawn up and long ftem’d. BHOs 
The only Care that is now to be taken, is more to defend 
them from cold Air, and'to ftrengthen, than to draw and force 
them. And during all this Work; great Gare muft be taken to 
wipe away the cold Steam, which by the Morning is con-_ 
denfed into Water, hanging in Drops on the Glafies, which is 
beft performed by a Woollen Rag, ec. This cold Steam is pre- 
fent Death to every Plant it falls on, and therefore great Care 
mutt be taken to prevent its ill Effects. If your Lights are well 
made and firm, ‘tis fufficient if you. turn the Glafles inftead of 
wiping them; and indeed is much the better way, becaufe tis 
fooner done, and. the Bed lefs expofed tothe Air, If you find 
that the Bed heats very much, and: a great Quantity of Steam 
arifes, tis beft to'abate the Covering, and to give a little Air in 
the Night; for in fhort, if they have not good Air, they are foon 
deftroy’d: And in the Day Time, when the Sun fhines very free- 
ly, be fure that they have fafficient Air, or otherwife the Steam 
that is then drawn up, will immediately kill ¢hom, iiss bss . 
In the giving, Air to. Cucumbers, _obferve that,’tis given in 
fach Parts of the Frame, where the Wind: cannot affect the 
Air of the Bed; which oftentimes kills the Plants.) | 
Thefe Dire&ions being duly obferved, your young Seedlings 
will thrive with good Succefs, and become very good Plants. 
When they begin to thew their third Leaves, they muft be 
tran{planted into (mall Flower-Pots,or Baskets, of feven or 
cight Inches Diameter, and four or five Deep, as direéted by 
Mr. Bradley, in his New Improvements, Patt il. Page 118. at 
about four Inches apart, placing four Plants ina Basket or Pot: 
ind as Mr. Bradéey obferves, that of the two, the Baskets are 
the beft, bcing made open on their Sides; with Oziers: I do 
alfo recommend the {ame, in regard. to their great Conveni- 
ency in removing Plants from one Bed to another, as they de- 
creafe in Heat,without any ways difturbing theRoots ofthe Plants, 
