16 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 four 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 s< j el pots, raising 
them with your finger, Sec with all the roo'.s as entire as possible, 
and with as much of the earth as will readily adhere about the fi- 
bres; 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 roois and stems near an inch thick; ob- 
serving 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 effected 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 
