72 The TraEtical Kitchen Gardiner, 



thcfe plants profpcr in frefli mold, after 

 they are newly planted and recovered 

 again, tho* I fhould advife a trial of this 

 way too. 



ofroatermg As foon ss they are planted you mufl: 

 0/ meion^ giye them fome water, to make them 

 fecmd kd. ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ better 5 and fhade them 

 with mats for a day or two, and after 

 that Vv^ith clean wheat-ftraw, that the 

 fun may glimmer in, and the plants 

 get ftrength by degrees. Thus let them 

 remain for a fortnight, taking great care 

 to give them what air is requifite ta 

 keep them from running up long-legged 

 and weak, which they will do, if kept 

 too clofe, and be fo weak as to be good 

 for little or nothing. And every morn- 

 ing, as foon as the fun has got a little 

 llrength, and it be v/arm, lay them open 

 to its cheerful embraces, and dry the 

 i^lafTes in the manner as has been direft- 

 cd in the laft fedion. I have never yet 

 prov'd wiiat Mr. Bradley recommends, 

 as to the putting of a dry woolen cloth 

 juft under the glaflcs, to receive all that 

 moiilure and fceam that is fo pernicious 

 to plants in their infancy, and which 

 tarniOics and burns them in dry hot wea- 

 ther, and is fo apt to rot them in wet ; 



but 



