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in eight or ten days after they appear^' 

 then the feed-leaves will be as broad as 

 a fix-pence, and then 'tis that the care- 

 ful melonijfi: mufr make this fecond bed. 

 It mufr be about twelve or fourteen foot 

 long, and five foot wide, according to 

 the fize of his frames, which for this 

 fecond bed fhould be of two lights of 

 equal dimenfion with thofe of one light 

 for the feed-bed : This bed muft be made 

 w^ith all the caution that I have given 

 in the firft, and fhould ftand three or 

 four days Vn' ith the earth on, before you 

 plant your plants therein, that you m,ay 

 the better difcover its temper 5 for if 

 it Ihould heat and rage to any great 

 degree, and the plants Ihould be burnt;, 

 you have all your work to begin anew 

 again 5 but if it fliould heat but {lowly, 

 it will be very eafy to quicken it by the 

 methods I have laid down in the fore- 

 going directions, viz. by well cloathing 

 of it with clean wheat-ftraw, or new- 

 lining the bed with dung 5 but this laft 

 precaution rarely happens to new made 

 beds, except in extream cold weather. 



But the bed being thus made, and 

 earthed about fix or eight inches thick, 

 ire, the plants may be planted out in 



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