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FOR early melons have three loads of dung for 

 a three-light box ; but if you have previously 

 grown early cucumbers, the old linings will be 

 useful for the melon bed, by mixing a proportion 

 of one half of fresh dung with it. This, in 

 fact, will be better than all fresh, as it requires 

 only once turning, whereas new dung should be 

 turned twice. In gentlemens' gardens there is 

 generally an abundance of leaves, and sometimes 

 a scarcity of dung ; when such is the case, 

 leaves, mixed with an equal proportion of 

 dung, may be used very successfully for the 



