Vegetable Stanch. C i 



The due healthy heat of a hot bed of 

 horfe-dung, in the fine mold , where the 

 roots of thriving Cucumber-plants were, in 

 Feb. was $6 degrees, which is nearly the 

 bofom heat, and that for hatching of eggs. 

 The heat of the air under the glafs-frame 

 of this hot-bed was 34 degrees j fo the roots 

 had 26 degrees more heat, than the plants 

 above ground. The heat of the open air 

 was then 17 degrees. 



It is now grown a common and very 

 reafonable prafticei to regulate the heat 

 of ftoves and green-houfes , by means of 

 Thermometers, hung up in them* And for 

 greater accuracy, many have the names of 

 fome of the principal exoticks, written up- 

 on their Thermometers, over-againft, the fe- 

 veral degrees of heat, which are found by 

 experience to be propereft for them. And 

 I am informed that many of the moft curl- 

 rious Gardiners about London have agreed 

 to -make ufe of Thermometers of this fort- 

 which are made by Mr. John Fowler in 

 Swithins- alley, near the Royal-Exchange 5 

 which have the names of the following 

 plants, oppofite to their refpe&ive moft kind- 

 ly degrees of heat $ which in my Thermome- 

 ters 



