8 4 The Englijh Gardner. 
Plants as about Jams-tideJ or a little after, you are to make a 
Bed of an indifferent temper, and when your Plants are about 
three inches high, you are to provide a new Bed in feme con¬ 
venient warm Situated place of a good fubftance, the better 
to hold warmth a good while, laying a convenient coat of 
mold thereon3 if your Bed be made raoft of ftraw indifferent¬ 
ly mixed with dung, that it may rather be of a fine continued 
warmth than very hot, it will be the better, and then to prick 
out your Plants about two or three inches afunder, according 
to their largenefs or fmallnefs of growth, and then to Arch 
your Bed with poles or hoops, and poles tied at length, that 
you may the better cover your Bed or Beds when ex.tr earn wea¬ 
ther, comes as Frofts, Snow, or much Rain: It will not be 
your beft way to cover your Plants except at the firft plant¬ 
ing in cafe of hot fim-fhine weather, only for two or three 
days until they have taken new Root, and then only in the 
heat of of the day, until extream weather come in, and then 
you are carefully to cover them, but yet to take all the oppor¬ 
tunities you may to give them Air3 for you muff: know, the 
more rhey are covered the tenderer they will be, and fothe 
more apt to mifcarry in cafe of negledt in extreme weather : 
and thus you may be furnifhed with Winter Plants, whereby 
you may lave Seed if your kind be good, and be lure to have 
good forward Colliflowers, if your ground be not wanting in 
Richnefs and convenient moifture 3 if when you Plant them at 
large, you do not cut them off your Bed with mold about 
the root, they will be apt to ftant, and then the Garden-fly 
will be apt to take them, and very much hinder them, with¬ 
out watering and fhadowing of them for fome time from the 
Sun, help them forward again. 
Hartichoaks are railed or increafed chiefly by the flips of 
Plants,either in March, April, ox fometimes in M ay, according 
as the Winter or their Husbandry hath favoured them 5 fome 
do Plant in September, and with diligent covering in Winter 
may fucceed 3 but the fure feafon is the riling of the year,the 
ordering of them is as followed!: the-ground whereon you 
Plant 
