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Yet the He covers, being fet upon bricks, may be kept 

 always on; but let the fruft, that happens to be without 

 fide, be covered with a hand glafs, which will help to 

 ripen it. Let the lights be protected in heavy rains, bv 

 laying forae cloth, or mat, over; a«d towards the iliye 

 of hammer, guard the plants well againft much cold 

 on nights. 



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A third crop of melons mav be fown (in fa- 

 vourable fituations) towards the end oS. April, or begin- 

 ning of May, if the former crop was fown about Mid- 

 March, and this is to be proceeded with in the fame 

 manner as the fecond. When September comes, (as 

 was obferved) late melons mull be preferved, as much 

 as pollible, from cold and wet, that they may ripen. To 

 this end, glazed frames may be ufed over all, or at leait 

 hand glaffes put over each fruit, covering warmly up 

 with mats on nights. Thofe melons that do not ripen 

 may be ufed lot mangoes, and make good ones. 



section xv. 



OF ESCULENTS. 



THE usefulness of efculent plants, as ferving 

 for the flod, health, and pkajurc of man, is pretty 

 generally acknowledged ; and that they may not lail 

 to anfwer thefc ends in the beft way. let them have 

 rvery attention; and that, not only in their cultivation, 

 but in their preparation for the table. Let there be no 

 flight put upon the bounty of Providence in or- 

 daining 



