162 THE PLEASURE, OR [Feb. 
each sort separate, covering them about a quarter of an inch, or 
rather less, with light earth; or you may draw some shallow drills 
with yoFur finger from the back, to the front of the bed, sow the 
seeds therein, and cover as above; or you may sow them in pots 
and plunge these into the earth of the hot-bed. But if you intend 
sowing in pots, and you have the convenience of tanner's bark, 
lay on eight or nine inches, or a foot, deep of it all over the bed in 
place of the earth, to plunge your pots therein, in which case two 
and a half feet deep of dung will be sufficient. 
As soon as the plants appear, admit fresh air to them every day 
when the weather is any way mild, and let them have now and 
then gentle sprinklings of water. Mind to cover the glasses every 
night, and in bad weather with mats; or if boards are first laid on, 
and then covered with mats, they will aflbrd an additional protec- 
tion. 
But in raising the above annuals if it is required to be saving 
of hot dung and trouble, and there are cucumber or melon hot- 
beds at work, you may sow them in pots and place them in these 
beds to raise the plants: which may afterwards be transplanted or 
pricked into other pots in the same, or into a nursery hot-bed, to 
forward them to a proper size. For the further management of these 
plants, see March and Ji^ril. 
Sowing Ten-week Stock and Mignonette. 
The ten-week stock is a beautiful annual; none makes a more 
agreeable appearance in pots, and in the borders, &c. and it con- 
tinues a long time in bloom. The mignonette imparts a sweet and 
agreeable odour, for which purpose it is extremely worthy of culti- 
vation. 
When these plants are wanted in early perfection, the seeds of 
either may be sown, towards the end of this month, in a slight hot- 
bed, or in a very warm border, to be covered with a frame and 
glasses; but by sowing the seed in the former it will bring the 
plants on much sooner, though, in the latter, they will be tolerable 
early, and being raised in a more hardy manner maybe planted out 
into the borders with better success; yet, when they are wanted 
for an early blow in pots, the hot-bed is preferable. 
Sow the seeds either in pots or on the surface of the bed, cover- 
ing them with light dry earth about the eighth of an inch deep or a 
little more, and give them gentle occasional waterings and the 
necessary protection from the inclemencies of the weather, and 
plenty of air at proper opportunities. Towards the latter end of 
April these may be planted into the open borders, or wherever they 
are destined to remain, with good success. The mignonette being 
very impatient of transplanting ought to be taken up with as much 
earth as possible around the roots, and so transplanted with par- 
ticular care. 
But if your plants stand thick in the seed-bed, some of them, 
when they have been up about three or four weeks, or when about 
an inch high, maybe pricked out either into a slight hot-bed, which 
