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under the glaffes, by which means, hav- 

 ing two or three of them, and keeping 

 them dry one under another, you may 

 take off that vapour and dew that ge- 

 nerally arifes out of hot-beds, to the 

 annoyance (and fometimes deftrudion) 

 of your plants, as it burns and fcalds 

 the leaves iij fine weather, or, which 

 is worfe, rots them in wet and cold. 



There will be little occafion of wa- o/w^/^*"-" 

 tering your cucumber plants thus early 

 in the year, the natural moifture being 

 fufficient to preferve them 5 however, 

 when you firft plant them out of the 

 feed-bed into the fecond or nurfery-bed, 

 you muft do it carefully, with water 

 warm'd in a veffcl that is not greafy, 

 and with a fpout of a tea or coffee-pot ; 

 and in cafe your bed (which fhould have 

 at leaft fix inches of mold on it, and 

 fliould under that have two inches or 

 more of old rotten dung) fliould burn, 

 wherever you fee it, thruft the plants 

 away with your hand on a heap, for if 

 you do nor, then thereby they will eafi- 

 ly flick again, and the pouring cold wa- 

 ter on that place will mitigate the raging 

 heat, and in a day or two after you i;iiay 

 thrufl your plants with the fame cou- 

 rage 



