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to plant, allowing one Load to fix 

 Holes. When your Dung is fit for 

 Ufe, you mull dig a Trench about 

 two Feet four Inches wide, and in 

 Length juft as you pleafe, or the 

 Place wi 1 allow ; and if the Soil be 

 dry, it fhould be ten Inches deep ; 

 but if wet, very little in the Ground, 

 levelling the Earth in the Bottom ; 

 then put in your Dung, obferving 

 to ftir and mix every Part of it as 

 was directed for the firft Hot-beds, 

 laying it rlofe and even. 



When this is done, you muft make 

 Holes about eight Inches over, and 

 fix Inches deep, juft in the Middle 

 of the Ridge, and three Feet and an 

 half Diftance from each other ; and 

 if there be more than one Ridge, the 

 Diftance of thofe ought to be eight 

 Feet and an half from each other j 

 then fill the Holes with good light 

 Earth, putting a Stick into the Mid- 

 dle of each for a Mark, and after- 

 Ward cover the Ridge over with 

 Earth, about four Inches thick, lay- 

 ing the Earth the fame Thicknefs 

 round the Sides. When the Earth 

 is levelld fmooth, you mufl fet the 

 Glaffes on upon the Holes, leaving 

 them clofe down about twenty-four 

 Hours, in which time the Earth in 

 the Holes will be warm'd fufhciently 

 to receive the Plants; then with 

 your Hand ftir up the Earth in the 

 Holes, making it hollow in form of 

 a Bafon; into each of which you 

 Ihould plant four Plants, obferving 

 to water and made them until they 

 have taken Root ; after which time 

 you muft be careful to give them a 

 little Air by railing the Glaffes on the 

 oppofite Side to the Wind, in pro- 

 portion to the Heat of the Weather, 

 as alfo to water them as you mall fee 

 they require it ; but you muft only 

 raife the Glaffes in the Jvliddle of 

 the Day, until the Plants fill the 

 Glaffes; at which time you mould 



raife the Glaffes with a forked Stick 

 on the South Side in Height pro- 

 portionable to the Growth of the 

 Plants, that they may not be fcorch'd 

 by the Sun : this alfo will harden 

 and prepare the Plants to endure the 

 open Air; but you fhould not ex- 

 pofe them too foon thereto j for it 

 often iiapt em>, that there are morn- 

 ing Frofts in May, which are many 

 times deftructive to thefe Plants 

 when expoftd thereto ; it is there- 

 fore the furcft Method to preferve 

 them under the Glaffes as long as 

 they can be kept in without Preju- 

 dice to the Plants : and if the Glaffes 

 are raifed with two Bricks on the 

 Back-fide, and the forked Stick on 

 the other Side, they may be kept in 

 a great while without Danger. 



Towards the Latter-end of May f 

 when the Weather appears fettled 

 and warm, you ftiould turn your 

 Plants down gently out of the Glafs ; 

 but do i}Ot perform this in a very 

 dry hot funny Day, but rather when 

 there is a cloudy Sky, and an Ap- 

 pearance of Rain: you muft in do- 

 ing of this raife the Glaffes either 

 upon Bricks, or forked Sticks, 

 whereby they may {land fecure at 

 about four or five Inches high from 

 the Ground, that the Plants may 

 lie under them without bruifmg ; nor 

 fhould you take the Glaftes quite 

 away until the Latter-end of Ju??e t 

 or the Beginning of July ; for thefe 

 will preferve the Moifture much 

 longer to their Roots than if they 

 were quite expofed to the open Air : 

 about three Weeks after you have 

 turn'd the Plants out of the Glaftes, 

 they will have made a confiderable 

 Progrefs, efpecially if the Weather 

 has been favourable ; at which time 

 you fhould dig up the Spaces of 

 Ground between the Ridges, laying 

 it very even; then lay out the Run- 

 ners of the Vines in exact Order, 



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