406 THE FORCING GARDEN. [jULY. 



given in the two last months ; as nothing particular 

 requires farther to be noticed, till about the first of 

 August ; when the bark-beds will require to be re- 

 newed, the plants to be fresh potted, the suckers to 

 be taken off the old stocks, and be planted. 



OF MELONS. 



Of groidng late Mehws in a Fined Pit. 



A fined pit, such as that for nursing pine-apple 

 plants, or in v/hich to force asparagus, strawberries, 

 &c. (described in Section I. at page :277), is a very 

 fit compartment in w'hich to grow a late crop of me= 

 ions, and is much to be preferred, for this purpose, 

 to a common hot-bed ; because if the season prove 

 cold or wet, a proper temperature can be kept up, 

 and damps can be expelled, by aid of the flues. 



About the mjdaie or latter end of Jul}^ is £ fit 

 time to plant. The seeds, of course, should be sown 

 about the first of the month ; and the plants may be 

 raised in any of the hot-beds now at work, or under 

 hand-glasses. It would only be wasting time to give 

 directions for this ; the process being more simple 

 and less tedious than that attending the rearing of 

 early melons, already fully noticed. I shall therefore 

 suppose they are to be ready for ridging out, about 

 the third week in the month, and so pass to the pre- 

 paration of the pit for them ; but shall first observe, 

 that, with respect to the kinds to be sown, those fit- 

 test for early, are also fittest for late crops ; and, that 

 I would, for my own part, choose the early Golden 



