IQ THE KITCHEN GARDEN. [Jan. 
same bed, at short intervals; for if one sowing should miscarry, 
another may succeed. 
When the plants, however, both of the first and succeeding sow- 
ings, are two, three, or fou-r days old they should be planted in 
small pots, which pots must be placed also in the hot -bed, in the 
manner following: 
Observe to fill the pots, the day before you intend to remove the 
plants, with some rich, dry earth, and set them within the frame till 
the next day, when the earth in the pots will be warm; then pro- 
ceed to planting, take the plants carefully up in the seed-pots, 
raising them with your finger, &c. with all the roots as entire as 
possible, and with as much of the earth as will readily adhere about 
the fibres; and thus, the pots of earth being ready, and forming the 
earth thereof a little concavely hollow a small depth, place the 
plants in the hollowed part of the earth slopingly, with their roots 
towards the centre, and earth over their roots and stems near an inch 
thick; observing to plant three plants in each pot; and if the earth 
is quite dry, give a very little water just to the roots of the plants 
only; and directly plunge the pots into the earth on the bed, close 
to one another, filling up all the spaces between with earth; and let 
every part of the bed within the frame be covered with as much 
earth as will prevent the rising of the rank, steam immediately from 
the dung, which would destroy the plants. 
Be careful to examine the bed every day, to see that the roots of 
the plants do not receive too much heat; if any thing like that ap- 
pears, draw up the pots a little, or as far as you see necessary for 
the preservation of the plants, re-plunging them again to their rims 
when the danger is over. 
Two or three days after planting, if the bed is in good condition, 
the plants will have taken root; though that is eftected sometimes 
in twenty-four hours. 
When the plants are fairly rooted, if the earth appears dry, give 
them a little water in the warmest time of the day; and if the sun 
shines it will prove more beneficial: let the watering be occasion- 
ally repeated very moderately, according as the earth in the pots 
becomes dry, and appears in want of a little moisture: and for this 
purpose always have some soft water set within the frame a few 
hours, to be ready to water the plants as you shall see occasion; 
but always with very great cautious moderation at this season. 
If there is now a brisk growing heat in the bed, you should, in 
order to preserve it as long as possible, apply some outward pro- 
tection of long stable-litter, straw, waste hay, dried fern, or leaves 
of trees, round the sides of the bed, raising it by degrees round the 
outsides of the frame. 
This will defend the beds from cold piercing wind, heavy or 
driving rains and snow, if either should happen; for these, if suf- 
fered to come at the bed, would chill it, and cause a sudden decay 
of the heat, whereby the plants would certainly receive a great 
check. 
If a lively heat be kept up, you may admit air to the plants every 
day, to strengthen their growth, by tilting the glasses in proportion 
