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fome airy, but fhady place, to dry, and then carefully preferved 
till fpring. If, however, the feed were to be immediately 
fown, and the pots kept in the Hot-houfe, and moderate wa- 
terings given them during the winter, the plants would rife 
and come up in the fpring : But the great difadvantage attend- 
ing this method is, that the plants would be liable to come 
forward too early, and, of courfe, come weak. For although 
the feed would lie dormant during the winter, notwithftanding 
the artificial warmth of the Hot-houfe, yet as foon as the days 
began to increafe, and the fun to regain his force, the genial 
warmth of his rays will foon, and, perhaps, too foon bring 
them up. It will, therefore, I think, be the moft eligible to 
fow the feeds about the end of February, or the beginning of 
March. ' For this purpofe, let fmall pots be filled with very 
light, rich, fandy mould j into each pot put eight or ten 
feeds ; lay them at regular didances, and prefs them into the 
mould 
• The beginning of March feems to be the moft proper feafon for fotving the 
feeds of plants in a Hot-houfe. In the fpring, it is cuftomary to raife a fucceffion 
of crops of Kidney-beans in moft Hot-houfes, which are generally fown at inter- 
vals of 10 or 12 days, from the middle of December to the beginning of May. 
I have conftantly obferved a very diftinguifnable difference in every crop, till the 
beginning of March ; each crop coming better, and growing more robuft and vi- 
gorous than the preceding one. But, after the vernal equinox, the cafe alters, 
and the crops then come more weak, the plants growing tall, (lender, and long- 
I take it for granted, that the health, ftrength, vigour, and longevity of a plant, 
(perhaps, too, the fame may be faid of man) depends greatly on its good begin- 
ning. 
