The Tra5iical Kitchen Gardiner. 



fore, and as much as you can diy the 

 under-fide of the glafs, thofe drops be- 

 ing very pernicious to your tender plants $ 

 and as the furious heat of the bed ex- 

 pires and grows more regular, your ten- 

 der plants grow more ftrong, then you 

 may give them more fun and air, al- 

 ways keeping, as well now as hereafter, 

 iome flicks about a foot or two long, 

 by pulling of v/hich now and then out 

 of the bed, you may perfectly difcern 

 in what temper the bed is 5 if too hot, 

 and that the fiick does as it were fcald 

 or burn your fingers, then you muft gee 

 a ftrong iron bar, and making feveral 

 great holes into the fides of the beds, 

 the fury of the heat may pafs out, and 

 then there muft be more air given be- 

 tween the frame and the glailcs : but if 

 the heat of the bed abate, and it be 

 coldifh, then muft new dung be apply'd 

 to the fides, to ftrike frefh heat into 

 the bed, in the doing of all which 

 there muft be the greateft care, and per- 

 petual watching and infpeding the tem- 

 per of your bed 5 for in that, the whole 

 fuccefs of your melons and cucumbers 

 confifts 5 for, as has been before obferv'd, 

 if once your plants are burnt by too 

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