JULY.] .MELONS. ^^Oy 



Cantelopc, tlic Orange Cantelope, and the Netted 

 Cantclope ; planting a part of the pit ^vivh each, * 



A very mild bottom heat is sufficient for the pur- 

 pose here in view ; and if the pit have been occu- 

 pied in the forcing of asparagus, French beans, or 

 strawberries, on a bark, or bark and dung, or on a 

 hark and leaf heat, it will r€q-iiire no other pre})ara- 

 iion than to be stirred up, and "have a little ii-esh 

 materials added ; keeping the fresli bark, dung, or 

 leaves well down, and finishing the bed with some 

 of the smallest and best reduced. M'licn it has 

 settled a few days, let it be moulded all over to the 

 thickness of twelve or fifteen inches ; previously 

 laying on a little more of the above small materials, 

 in order to keep tlie plants well up to the glass, as 

 the bed will fall considerably in the settling. It 

 should be formed, and the mould should be laid on, 

 in ti sloping mamier, from back to front, so as in 

 some measure to correspond with the glasses. 



All being ready for tlie plants, they may either 

 be planted in a row in the middle of the pit, at two 

 feet apait, -or may be planted in two rows, at four 

 feet apart; or, if they have been planted, in nursings 



* Fianting ditFerent sort? in early hot-bed*, froni which seeds 

 are to be saved, is not advisable, it it be wishtu to have the kinds 

 genuine, and distinct ; as there might be a degeneration in con- 

 sequence of a mixture of farina. But in this kind of pit, differ- 

 ent kinds may be planted, as they will come in very late, and the 

 seeds may perhaps not be sufficiently matured tor saving; at Ica.vt 

 •there v.ould be a chance of the plants, raised from such seeds, 

 i^umiiDg very much to vines. 



