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A COMPLEAT BODY. | 
Sept. 
great Advantage ; ; and only moderate Care is re- | 7 : 
_ | by raifing the Lid with a Brick. 
-quir’d to Sree and manage them. 
The Hot Bed being ready, fow the Seed: di- 
{tribute it ‘archi, and fee that it be about 
three Quarters of an Inch covered. ee 
About feventeen Days, with good Manage- 
ment, bring up the Plants; and this is the Gar- 
dener’s Signal for preparing his fecond Hot Bed. 
Common Mould does for covering the firft ; 
but, for this fecond, fome rotted Wood, or de- 
cay’d Leaves fhould be wrought in; and’ about 
one fifth Patt Sand. This is a Practice un- 
known to our Gardeners; but it is founded on | 
Reafon, and fupported. by Experience: the 
Dutch, with no Advantage befide that Secret, » 
exceed us in this Branch of Gardening greatly. 
It opens the Body of the Mould, gives Paflage - 
to the Vapours from. the Dung, and makes the 
Way eafy’ for the young Roots of the Plants. 
_ As much as the Mould is impoverifh’d by the 
Sand, it is improv’d by the rotted Wood or 
Leaves, fo that it retains its full Strength, and. 
has great additional Lightnefs. 
_ Let this Compoft be fpread upon the fecond 
Hot Bed, five Inches _ deep; and when it is 
ready, and the Plants have fome Strength, let 
them be remov’d into it in the following Man- 
ner. 
With a {mall Trowel ¢ open little ides, three 
Inches deep, and at eight Inches diftance, in the 
new Hot Bed: with the fame Trowel raife the 
young Plants; carefully preferve the Roots en- 
tire, and fome Mould with them; and plant 
them regularly one in each Hole of the new 
Bed. 62 faa 
Fill up the Hole with its own Earth, and 
give them a gentle Watering. | 
On this depends the Shape of sh Plants for 
Summer. 
ill-thap’d Capficum, and with us fcarce a good 
one: the Reafon is, their Care in watering Heth 
upon the firft Tranfplantation. 
of the Plant to fpread irregularly; but ours are 
generally deform’d : and the Caufe is, that we bear 
- down the tender Stalk of the young Plant in this 
Watering, which i it does not recover. The Holes 
of our beft Watering-Pots are too large. The 
French ufe one that does not hold above a | 
Gallon; they never half fill it; and the Holes 
are fit only to let it in Hairs; thro’ this the 
Water ipreads — ae like the — natu- 
ral Showers. © 
The young Plants are now to be kept covered 
| than the fecond: 
In the Paris Gardens we never fee an | 
It is the Nature 
at Night, and in the Day they are to have Air, Sept. 
The better the Weather, the more Air let the 
| Plants have; and take Care no Drops, hanging 
on the “Tnfile of the Cover, falls upon them. 
That would rot them; and the keeping them too 
clofe would raife them weak : with this Manage- 
ment they will root quickly ; and get Strength. 
‘They fhould ftand a Month in this Hot- Beds 
and, at the End of that Time, they will require 
another. 
This will appear a tedious er oe to ithe Une 
experienced; but the Labour is not great, and it 
ferves many other Plants at the Sala “‘Pime with. 
this. 
~The Annuals are the great Grace of a Gar dea 
when the Spring and Summer-Flowers are gone: 
and they are fo much ‘of a Nature, that one 
Management ferves for all. We fhall, upon the 
» fucceeding Occafions refer to this, and therefore 
have been the more particular in the Deleription 
here... 
Phe’ third Hot Bed mutt be covered deeper 
and from this the Czpficums 
mutt be, after another Month, planted into 
{mall Pots, to be placed j in another, 
This fourth and laft Hot Bed mutt Soe a 
| deep Frame: as many Pots as can ftand by one 
| another muft be put intovit, and the Space be- 
tween them is to be filled up with Earth. 
A fine rich Compott, like the firft, muft be: 
put into thefe Pots; and in this the Capfcumy 
muit be planted with due Care. 
While they are in this laft Frame, the Cover 
| muft~be “more ‘and more rais’d from Time to : 
Time; and after about three Weeks, taking the 
Advantage of a warm ey Day, it mutt be 
taken oe entirely. 
Let this. be repeated four or five Times’ ia: 
: right Weather; and thus they will be hardened 
to the Air. 
In the Middle of July they may be rinse} 
out into Borders, taking all the Earth of the 
Pot with them. Here they will require only. 
gentle Waterings from Time to Time; and wie 
will grow to fall Perfection. 
_ The Gardener has here thie hole See of 
3 itil Annuals, before him at one View. We. 
thall occafionally, at the Seafons, when each 
‘Part is to be done, treat it more exprefsly; but. 
this 4s a: fafficient general Account of it; and. 
by the Secret of this th os he will fucceed 
- much beyond others, 
Plate II. 
Fig, 2, 
Gly D BeN 
wie. 
i his j is not as igihs former an herbaceous Plant, 
but a robuft Shrub. It is a Native of Ceylon, 
and has not, that I know, been raifed in Europe ; 
but’ with the common Care allowed to Eaft- 
Indian Plants it may: and its glofly Leaf and 
golden Fruit would be a great Addition to the 
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winery and. aoa of the Plants we Keep i in our. » 
Stoves. 
The adding to “the limited Number of diet: | 
Plants, ) 
