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plants in the fpring, efpecially about 

 London, where the foil is rich and warm ; 

 but let the feafon be how it will, one 

 of the three fowings I have been men- 

 tioning will undoubtedly ftand, and take 

 place. And thefe and the former are 

 to be planted out on bell-ridges, four or 

 five under a bell, to come in early in 

 the fpring. 



All thefe fowings are to be on an oldo//^e»j<sr;- 

 hot-bed, where being fown, the feed ^f^'^- 

 will foon fhew it felf, and may be prick'd 

 out, all but the laft, into an open bor- 

 der of good ground, to take the chance 

 of the winter. 



But it were better for the laft fowing 

 of all, that a little dung be thrown to= 

 gether, both in fowing and tranfplant- 

 ing, for the feafon of the year being at 

 that time far fpent, the feed will not 

 grow fo well, nor when tranfplanted 

 will the plants take root fo well with= 

 out it. 



The other times of fowing colly- Ue fiwth 

 flower feeds, are early in fome of the/^^j^^ ^/ 

 firft or fecond beds you make for your '^^^"'^''^ 

 melons or cucumbers, about the begin= 

 ning of February, and fo let them after- 

 wards be tranfplanted into thofe old 



bedsy 



