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mould with your finger to the depth of half an inch; then fill 
up the holes, and make the furface of the mould fmooth and 
even. 
The pots fliould be plunged either in the tan-bed in the 
Hot-houfe, or in a temperate hot- bed, for a moderate warmth 
will, at that feafon of the year, foon caufe the feed to vegetate. 
As foon as the plants appear, they will require, from time to 
time, gentle fprinklings of water, but this mull; be given them 
very fparingly, efpecially during the time of their having only 
feed-leaves ; once a week or’ten days, if the weather be fine, 
will be quite fufficient during the time they remain in that 
ftate ; and fhould the weather prove either gloomy or rainy at 
that juncture, let the watering be entirely omitted. 
When 
ning. This remark may be deemed worthy the farmer’s obfervation, as it will 
(hew the importance and neceffity of fixing upon a proper feed-time. 
As the fun’s annual courfe is always the fame, it neceflarily follows, that the 
feafons of a Hot-houfe, where the air is confined, muft be nearly fo too. But in 
the open air the cafe is very dift'erent, and we find, by experience, that there are 
many weeks difference in vegetation, according to the latenefs or forwardnefs of 
the fpring. Hence no fixed time can, with propriety, be afcertained for fowing 
the fpring corn and grafs feeds, but nature’s figns will be the farmer’s fureft guide. 
The leafing of trees, the ftate of the ground, and the weather, will, if well ob- 
ferved, afford the beft diredlions to the farmer in this important bufinefs. 
There are certain critical feafons in the fpring, when all nature feems combined 
to promote vegetation when the very air is big with impregnation, and the earth 
fwells, as wilhing for the defcending fhower. 
