48 THE AMERICAN GARDENER. [Chap* 



March {Long Island, mind,) and that you have 

 been very attentive to give air and water. By the 

 10th of April, the plants will have eight leaves^ 

 and they will form one solid patch of green. They 

 will be a little drawn up, though you have given 

 them plenty of air. And now they must be re- 

 moved into a new bed. Dig out the ground a foot 

 deep, four feet wide, and to as great a length as is 

 required by your number of plants. Fill this hol- 

 low up with the best dung you have, cover it over 

 with four inches of good earth ; and plant your 

 plants upon it in rows four inches apart, and two 

 inches apart in the row. When you have put out 

 the plants, water them lightly ; and shade them for 

 two or three days from the sun. They must also 

 be sheltered every night, in this manner. Take 

 some rods, put one end of each rod into the ground 

 on one side of the bed, and the other end on the 

 other side ; put these rods at about two feet asunder 

 all along the bed ; then tie some rods long ways to 

 these arched rods ; so that, when you have done, 

 your bed has an arch over it formed by these rods. 

 Every evening about sun-set, cover this arch with 

 mats, with old carpets, or with a slight covering ot 

 any sort, which take off again at sun-rise in the 

 morning. 



88. To put out all your plants in this way will 

 require a very long bed, or many short ones. If, 

 therefore, your number of plants be very large, the 

 best way will be to put out a part of them in this 

 way, leave the remainder in the hot bed a week 

 longer, (taking off the lights in the day time,) and 

 then to plant all the remainder out in beds of fine 

 rich earth, in the natural ground, and without any 

 covering. 



89. Now here we drop, for the present, the 



