New Principles of Gardening. 
which ¢annot be avoided when they are grown too large for 
the Pots; and befides, if a Bed happens by Winds fuddenly to 
work and heat, and thereby fcald or burn, the Baskets, tho’ 
very hot, are inftantly cool at railing up, which Pots are not, 
for they retain the burning Heat along Time. 
The Baskets are beft when made with young Oziers, 
which muft, before they are ufed, be caft into fcalding or 
boiling Water, to prevent their growing when in the Hot- 
Bed. bALS : 
Your Plants being thus managed, will be very clofe jointed, 
if you have allow’d them fufficient Air: And when they are 
arrived into their fecond or third Joint, make a good ftrong 
Ridge of about three Feet in Height when fettled, which when 
its Fury of Heat is over, as will be in about ten Days ora Fort- 
Plants.are to ftand for good, andthe next Day afterwards place 
or plant your Baskets of Plants therein, at the Height of feven 
Inches above the Dung; andat the fame Time obferve to cover 
the other Parts of the Ridge with Earth very thinly, to pre- 
vent the Steam of the Dung rifing, which is prefent Death to 
thefe Plants at all Times. When you find that the Earth of 
ur Bed grows dry, ‘tis neceflary to give the Plants Water, 
which prepare by its ftanding one Night within the Frame, be- 
fore ’tis ufed, as diretted for Afparagus forced, Sect. Il. . 
Having thus tranfplanted your Plants for good, obferve the 
Temperature of the Bed, and as its furious Heat declines, make 
good the remaining Earth within the Frames, always remem- 
bring to allow them fufficient Air, and that they are not any 
ways affeéted by the cold Steam within the Bed, or by any 
which may arife from the out Parts, which may be prevented, by 
covering the Dung from whence it arifes, with any common 
Earth or Mould. 
- Your Plants being thus govern’d, will foon make great Pro- 
grefs; and thatthey may break out in many Runners, from which 
comes the Fruit, ’tis beft to pineh or cut off witha Penknife the 
third or fourth Joint of every Plant, always obferving to peg 
down’every Runner, ‘that they may not be burnt or deftroy’d by 
the Glafs (which too often happens) when their tender Shoots 
bear againft it. A 
The 
night after making, then earth it in thofe Places where your 
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