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to prcferve the heat the longer; and 

 making the bed about three foot wide, 

 and four and a half or five foot long, 

 according as the lize of the raifing frame 

 is j and in the winter time at leaft three 

 foot high, though in the fpring it need 

 not be fo ftrong. You may fow the 

 feed in a day or two after the bed is 

 made, tho* fome fow it immediately. 

 There are that chufe rather to fow ic 

 on a hill in the middle of the frame, 

 and covering that earth with hand-glaffes 

 made flat, than by earthing the bed all 

 over, to trufl: to the violence and un- 

 certainty of the bed 5 which fometimes 

 (fay they) burns up the plants before you 

 can fave them : And this indeed holds 

 good as to the fecond bed and ridges, 

 but it is a misfortune that rarely hap- 

 pens in the feed-bed, the rage or heat 

 of the bed being expiring, or expired, 

 before the feeds are come up, at leaft 

 before they are fit to plant out into the 

 fecond or nurfery-bed. 



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