Vegetable Statich. G i 
The due healthy heat of a hot bed of 
horfe-dung, in the fine mold , where the 
roots of thriving Cucumber-plants were, in 
Feb. was 56 degrees, which is nearly the 
bofom heat, and that for hatching of eggsJ 
The heat of the air under the glafs-frame 
of this hot-bed was 34 degrees,- fo the roots 
had 26 degrees more heat, than the plants 
above ground. The heat of the open air 
was then 17 degrees. 
It is now grown a common and very 
reafonable pradice 3 to regulate the heat 
of ftoves and green-houfes , by means of 
Thermometers^ hung up in them. And for 
greater accuracy, many have the names of 
fome of the principal exoticks, written up- 
on their Thermometer Sy over-againft, the fe- 
veral degrees of heat, which are found by 
experience to be propereft for them. And 
I am informed that many of the moft curi- 
rious Gardiners about London have agreed 
to makcufe of Thermometers of this fort- 
which are made by Mr. "John Fowler in 
Swithins- alley y near the Royal-Exchange -y 
which have the names of the following 
plants, oppofite to their refpe£live moft kind- 
ly degrees of heat 5 which in my Thermome- 
ters 
