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dung, to deprefs the heat of the other 

 dung, which would otherwife evaporate, 

 and to help to warm the earthy and 

 when the afparagus begins to fprout, 

 they put bells upon each plant, or co- 

 ver the whole beds with glafs frames, 

 which is better , after which the heat of 

 thofe paths muft be renewed, by ftirring 

 them from the bottom upwards, or by 

 renewing, from time to time, an appli- 

 cation of frefh dung, covering (befides) 

 the bells or glafs frames with dry long 

 dung, or skreens of ftraw, or fuch like 

 matter, for the reafons above expreffed, 

 when we were treating of afparagus and 

 forrel in hot-beds. The afparagus plants 

 being thus warm'd, and feeling under 

 thofe bells or glafs frames an air as com- 

 fortable as that in the months of April 

 or May- they produce fhoots that are 

 red at their firft coming up, but which 

 after that turn green and long, like 

 thofe that nature it felf produces in 

 warm and temperate feafons. The on- 

 ly inconvenience of thefc artificial heat- 

 ings, is, that becaufe they muft be very 

 violent to penetrate fo cold an earth, 

 they dry up and fpoil thofe plants, fo 

 that fuch afparagus^ inftead of continu- 

 ing 



