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cumber frame and lights may be placed, to receive the 

 tubers ; the bed must be covered with six inches of 

 mould, to temper the heat, and keep the steam under. 

 If the tubers have been kept in dry mould in pots, 

 through the winter, either in a greenhouse or cellar, 

 they may remain in those pots, if the crowns of the 

 tubers are not buried, and the pots may be plunged 

 in the earth of the hotbed. If the roots are out of 

 pots, let them be covered with mould, except the 

 crown. The heat will have declined in about three 

 weeks, without fresh lining, when the cuttings will be 

 ready ; so that it will be necessary to have another 

 gentle hotbed to receive them when potted, or else 

 fresh lining must be added to the first one. Let the 

 mould you make use of be sifted fine, and mix with a 

 little leaf-mould, old rotten frame-dung, and fine 

 sand. When the cuttings are planted, water them 

 sparingly for the first week or two, till the wounds be 

 healed over ; shade them from the sun, and cover at 

 night with mats, in case of frost. If any hot steam 

 should by chance rise, raise the lights a little, with a 

 flat bit of tile or oyster shell, to let it escape, to pre- 

 vent their fogging. After the cuttings are rooted, 

 harden them to the air gradually, and pot them 

 singly, in 60 pots ; as they increase in strength, pot 

 them again in 48 pots, in which they may remain till 

 turned into the ground any time in May or June ; 

 or they may be moved again into larger pots to flower, 



