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cold, or its heat any way declining, that 

 then your plants grow fick and yellow; 

 and when they are fo^you will have a hard 

 matter to recover them again. To this 

 end, you muft have flicks always ftuck 

 down a foot or tv/o into the bed, to pull 

 out, and feel, that you may difcovcr the 

 temper of your bed upon all occafions : 

 befides which, your finger fhould be often 

 thruft into the bed, that you may difcover 

 the temper of your earth, and whether 

 your bed does not want new heating a- 

 gain 5 to cure which, you fliould always 

 have frefh dung lye juft by you j or if the 

 bed heats too much, a dung fork to pull 

 away part of that overmuch that was there 

 before j or an iron bar to thruft down, if 

 it rages into the heart of the bed, to let 

 the fiercenels of the heat out. 



Thefe hand glades, as I have, I think, 

 clfewhere intimated, arc of excellent 

 ufe i, likewife when you tranfplant into 

 your ridges, for thefe being fet a foot or 

 two afunder, the fteam has free egrels to 

 evaporate up towards your hoop cover- 

 ing, and up into the open air. 



What has been faid of cucumbers, 

 may be alfo apply 'd to melons when they 

 are young, which wilLalways breed them 



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