IS"4? OF RAISING CUCUMBERS. SECT. XIV. 



burn, and if it catches the other parts of the bed, the 

 difeafe may be eafily remedied, in the way before men- 

 tioned, without dilturbing the plants. Some gardeners 

 place turf under the plants, with the grafs downwards, 

 to prevent excefs ot heat ; and it helps to keep the 

 mould, in other parts, from burning, to ftir it about in 

 time. A preventative ufed by fome, is to put on a 

 layer of five or fix inches of old dung, when the bed is 

 made. It mould feem r that a layer ot about three inches 

 of eld bark might prevent burning. See Burning, 

 pages 180, 181. 



Planting is to take place as foon as the heaps of 

 mould are warm. Spread the earth on the top a little, 

 and having the hills a full ten inches depth, make a 

 hole in the middle fix inches deep, to receive the pot of 

 plants ; which pets will be from four and a halt to five 

 inches deep, and confequently the plants funk m this 

 hole a full inch more in mould than they were in the 

 pot ; and thev will have four inches depth or mould at 

 the bottom, which there Jbould be below the roots. 

 Draw the mould up to the plants, and prefs it gently 

 between, and to them, all round the hillock. It is 

 fpoken here of a pot ot plants with three, but it only one 

 in a pot, the whole hill mud be thrown down to" fouy 

 inches depth, and the plants, with all the mould, fet one 

 ciofe by the fide of the other, and then filled up and 

 round with the earth of the bed. 



To foift plants out of the pots with the ball of 

 earth entire about them, put. the fingers between the 

 plants, and turning the pot up, give, it a gentle tap on 

 the knee, or edge of the frame, and the whole will- 

 come out ; a little- preffure at the fame time through . 

 the hole at bottom, with a finger of the other hand, 

 will »affift : turn the plants up carefully, and place them 

 in i'o. To fecure their coming out whole, water the 

 pots to the bottom the day before ; and if not too wet, 

 they will flip out. If the plants hold tight to the pots, 

 when turned up., along thin narrow bladed knife w*4 



