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ifiree or four Days after the Bed Is 

 made ; then you may place the Plants 

 therein, as is directed for each Kind 

 under their proper Heads. 



But if your Hot-bed be defigned 

 for other Plants, there need be no 

 Holes made in the Dung ; but after 

 having fmoothed the Surface with a 

 Spade, you mould cover the Dung 

 about three or four Inches thick 

 With good Earth, putting ort the 

 Frames and Glafles as before. 



In the making of thefe Hot-beds, 

 it mufl be carefully obferved to fettle 

 the Dung clofe with a Fork ; and if 

 it be pretty full of long Litter, ic 

 lhould be equally trod down clofe in 

 every Part, otherwife it will be fub- 

 jed to heat too violently ; and con- 

 fequently the Heat will be much 

 fooner fpent, which is one of the 

 greateft Dangers this Bed may be li- 

 able to. During the firft Week or 

 ten Days after the Bed is made, you 

 lhould cover the GlaflTes but (lightly 

 in the Night, and in the Day- time 

 carefully rarfe them to let out the 

 Steam, which is fubjedt to rife very 

 copioufly while the Durig is frefh : 

 but as the Heat abates, fo the Co- 

 vering fhould be increafed ; other- 

 wife the Plants in the Beds will be 

 Hinted in their Growth, if notintire- 

 ly deflroyed. In order to remedy 

 this Evil, if the Bed be very cold, 

 you mull put a pretty good Quantity 

 of new hot Dung round the Sides of 

 it, which will add a frefh Heat there- 

 to, and caufe it to continue a con- 

 fiderable time after; and as the 

 Spring advances, the Sun will fup- 

 p\y the Lofs of the Bung's Heat ; 

 but then it will be advjfeabie to lay 

 fome Mowings of Grafs round the 

 Sides of the Bed; efpecially if the 

 Nights mould prove cold, as it of- 

 ten happens in May, which is many 

 times, even at that Seafon, very hurt- 

 fux to tender Plants on Hot- beds. 



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But altho' the Hot- bed I have de- m 

 fcribed is what the Kitchen garden- ' 

 ers commonly ufe, yet thofe made 

 with Tanners Bark are much more 

 preferable, efpecially for all tender 

 Exotic Plants or Fruits which re- 

 quire an even Degree of Warmth to 

 be continued for fevera! Months ; 

 which is what cnnnot be lb well 

 efre&ed by Horfe-dung. The Man- 

 ner of making thefe Beds is as fol- 

 lows : 



You mull dig a Trench in the 

 Earth about three Feet deep, if the 

 Ground be dry ; but if wet, it mufl 

 not be above a Foot deep at moft, 

 and muft be raifed two beet above- 

 ground. The Lengtn mull be pro- 

 portion^ to the Frames intended to 

 cover it; but that mould n-ver be 

 lefs than eleven or twelve Feet, and 

 the Width not lefs than fix; which is 

 but a fufficient Body to cemtirfae the 

 Heat. This Trench mould be bricks 

 ed up round the Sides to the above- 

 mentioned Height of three Feet, and 

 fhould be fill'd in the Spring with 

 frefh Tanners Bark (i. e. fuch as 

 the Tanners have lately drawn out 

 of their Vats, after they have us'd it 

 for tanning Leather) which mould be 

 laid in a round Heap for three or four 

 Days before it is put into the Trench, 

 that the Moitlure may the better 

 drain cut of it, which, if detainYJ in 

 too great a Quantity, will prevent 

 its Fermentation ; then put it into! 

 the Trench, and gently beat it dowa 

 equally with a Dung* fork : but it 

 mull not be trodden', which would 

 alfo prevent its heating, by fe'tuing 

 it too clofe : then you mull put on 

 the Frame over the Bed, covering it 

 with theGhffes; and in aboat ten 

 Days, or a Fortnight, it will begin to 

 heat 5 at which time you may plunge 

 your Pots Of Plants or Seeds uro it,- 

 oLfervirg riot to tread dow.i the 

 Bark in doing of it. 



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