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wheat ftraw, which will foon raife the 

 heat, and in a day or two you may 

 fow your feed as foon as you find the 

 earth is warmiHi. Some ftccp the feeds 

 in warm milk for fourteen or fifteen 

 hours 5 which is not an unneceffary pre- 

 caution, efpccially when the feed is old. 

 And thus may your bed remain for four 

 or five days, only tilting the glaffcs a 

 little, if it be any thing of good wea- 

 ther, and letting in of fo much fun and 

 air as will dry the glaffes of the ficam 

 which naturally arifes from the hot-bed. 

 of the cut' About four or five days after the feed 

 iure after is fowu, as I havc juft uow intimated, 

 fonotng, .J. ^^'^yy appear above ground; but they 

 muft not as yet, if the weather Ihould 

 prove fine, have too much fun, becaufe 

 it will be apt to draw up the heat of 

 the bed too fall; but as the temper of 

 the bed appears to be, they are to have 

 either more or lefs fun and air, only 

 in the morning , as foon as the fun ap- 

 pears pretty firong, or indeed at all live- 

 ly, you muft, not only w^hile they are in 

 their feed-leaves, but aifo always after- 

 wards, turn the glaftes upfidc down, 

 and brufh off the dews or fleam that 

 has arifen from the bed the night be- 

 I fore. 



