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is warm, put in the plants, removing them from 

 the pots with the balls entire, with two plants in 

 each, give them a moderate watering, and put 

 down the glasses and shade them for a few days 

 until they have made fresh roots, after which, 

 raise the glasses a little on the south side to give 

 air, but keep them close at nights, and cover the 

 glasses and also the* bed every night with thick 

 garden mats, which ought to be continued till 

 the middle of June ; the plants will require oc- 

 casional waterings moderately in fine weather, 

 and when the glasses have become crowded, 

 they must be raised, and the runners trained out 

 on the surface of the bed in regular order. 



When the beds are made in trenches or pits ? 

 dig them out three or four feet wide, and two 

 feet deep, fill them up with the prepared hot 

 dung eight or ten inches above the surface, 

 plant the plants on ridges as before directed, 

 about twelve inches deep, and earth all over the 

 top of the bed, and also the sides to keep in the 

 heat, and so far extended, to make the beds six 

 feet wide ; and raising it till it is about a foot 

 thick all over the bed, or even with the top of 



