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~<a PoE b AT RO PY 
great Advantage; and only moderate Care is re- — 
er eo oh tO oe and manage them. 
of the Plant to fpread irregularly; but ours are | 
~ Plate II, 
Fic. 2, 
Bed. 
The Hot Bed being sandy; fow the Sac di- 
{tribute it carefully, and fee that it be about 
three Quarters of an Inch covered. 
About feventeen, Days, with good Manage- 
ment, bring up the Plants; and sa is the Gar- 
dener’s Bibaal 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 Pare 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 injpoverifh’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 fmall Trowel open little Holes, three 
Inches deep, and at eight Inches diftance, in the 
new Hot Bed: with the fame Trowel raife the 
young Plants; carefplly preferve the Roots en- 
tire, and fome Mould with them; and plant 
them regularly one in each Hole of the new 
Fill up the Hole cabs its own. “Bath, aa 
give them a gentle Watering. 
On this depends the Shape of the Plants for 
Summer. In the Paris Gardens we never fee an 
ill-fhap’d Capficum, and with us fcarce a good 
one: the Reafon is, their Care in watering them 
upon the firft Tranfplantation. It is the Nature 
senerally deform’d: and the Caufe is, that we bear 
down the tender Stalk of the young Plant in this 
Watering, which it does not recover. The Holes 
The 
of our beft Watering-Pots are too large. 
French wfe one that does not hold above a 
Gallon; they never half fill it; 
are fit only to let it in Hairs; thro’ this the 
‘Water f{preads as hos like. the lighteft natu- 
ral Shower. » 
The young Plants are now to be hess covered 
than the fecond: 
_miuft be, after another Month,” planted into — 
{mall Pots, to be placed in another. | 
and the Holes © 
at Night, and in the Day they are to have Air, 
by raifing the Lid with a Brick. 
The better the Weather, the more Air let the 
Plants have; and take Care no Drops, hanging 
on the Infide 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-Bed, 
and, at the End of that Time, they will require 
another. | 
This will appear a tedious Praétice to the as 
experienced; but the Labour is not great, and it 
ferves many other Plants at the fame Time with 
this. 
The Annuals are the great Grace of a Guden 
when the Spring and Summer-Flowers are gone : 
and they are fo much of a Nature, hae one 
Management ferves for all. We fhall, upon the 
fucceeding Occafions refer to this, and therefore 
have been the more ieee in the Defcription 
here. 
The third Hot ee muft be covered deeper 
-and. fram -this the Czp/icums 
This fourth and laftt Hot Bed matt have 2a 
deep Frame: as many Pots as can ftand by one 
another muft be put into it, and the Space be- 
tween them is to be filled up with Earth. 
A fine rich Compoft, like the firft, muft be 
put into thefe Pots; and in this the Czpfcwns~ 
muft be planted with due Care. 
While they are in this laft Frame, the Cover 
muft be more and-imore rais’d from Time to 
_ Times; and after about three Weeks, taking the 
Advantage of a warm cloudy Day, it mutt be 
taken off entirely. oe | 
Let this be repeated four or five Times-in. 
right Weather ; ’ and thus they will be hardened 
to the Air. 
In the Middle of Yuly they may be planted 
out into Borders, taking all the Earth of the 
Pot with them. Here they will require only. 
gentle Waterings from Time to Time; and they: 
will ¢ crow to full Perfection. | 
The Gardener has here the whole Procefs of 
raifing Annuals, before him at one View. We: 
fhall occafionally, at the Seafons, when each 
Part is to be done, treat it more exprefsly ; but 
this is a fufficient general Account of its 
much beyond others. 
2, GOLDEN CAPSICUM. 
This is not as the former an herbaceous Plant, 
but a robuft Shrub. 
and has not, that I know, been raifed in Europe ; 
but with the common Care allowed to ‘Ea/- 
‘Tt is a Native of Ceylon, 
 Vatiesy ai Beauty of the Plants we keep | in our 
Stoves. 
- The adding to the limited Number of thefe 
Plants, fhould be the great Endeavour of every 
Indian Plants it may: and its gloffy Leaf and | Gardener. 
golden Fruit would be a great Addition to the | 
3 
Its Name 
This is a very elegant Species. 
! accord- 
and 
by the Secret of this Compoft he will fucceed 
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