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A SUTTLEMENT to 



add, that thofe that have a mind to at- 

 tempt at the procuring of them very ear- 

 ly, and to fow their feed in Nouember^ 

 or the beginning of December (as it is now 

 praftis'd) that inflead of the flannel 

 frames, which Mr. Bradley recommends, 

 the ingenious praditioner fliould have 

 fquare hand glaffes, to fet over his plants> 

 which when planted out fhould be reduced 

 into the compafs of fuch glaffes 5 at the 

 top of which there fhould be a chim- 

 ney, as they call it, made of one of 

 the triangular fquares, fo faftned at 

 the top by a ftaple made of wire, that it 

 may be opened on any oceafion. 



When the hot bed is tlien ready, the 

 heat raised, and the plants fit to plant out 

 from the feed bed as before direded, then 

 you arc to plant them out under thefc 

 hand glafles, and keep open the before- 

 mentioned chimney, fo as that the fteam 

 may go out at top, which will in a great 

 meafure prevent that dew that will other- 

 wife drop upon the plants, and which is 

 often the oceafion of fpoiling and rotting 

 them. And indeed this is the chief mif- 

 chief that attends the raifing of plants 

 thus early, before the fun has any power 

 to dry up that pernicious moifture from 

 I the 



