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AH kinds of Lettuce intended for heading, should be 

 planted in good ground twelve inches distant from each 

 other every way ; the plants should be carefully hoed every 

 other week, during their growth ; the first hoeing should be 

 done in about two weeks after they are transplanted. 



The Coss Lettuce requires to be blanched ; this is done by 

 gathering up the leaves of the plants, and tying bass round 

 them when grown to perfection. 



If Head Lettuce be required at other seasons than the 

 Spring, it may be obtained in Autumn by sowing seed in 

 August, or in the Winter, by means of garden frames and 

 glazed sashes. See article on forcing vegetables. 



MELON. 



MELON. Cucumis melo. 



VARIETIES. 



Green Citron. 



Murray's Pine Apple. I | 



Persian. \ => 



Nutmeg. I . 



Star, Fine Late. } . 



Large Yellow Canteleupe. 

 Minorca, or Netted do. 

 Pomegranate, or Musk Scented. 

 Skillman's, or Netted Romane. 

 Snake, (curious.) 



THE Melon is an exotic plant, growing wild in Asia. It 

 is cultivated in all the warm countries of Europe, and also 

 in Africa and America, where its salubrious and cooling 

 fruit is greatly esteemed. 



For the varieties of the Musk or Canteleupe Melons, pre- 

 pare a piece of rich ground the first week in May ; manure 

 it and give it a good digging ; then mark it out into squares 

 .of six feet every way ; at the angle of every square, dig a 

 hole twelve inches deep and eighteen over, into which put 

 about six inches deep of old rotten dung ; throw thereon 

 about four inches of earth, and mix the dung and earth well 

 with the spade ; after which draw more earth over the mix- 

 ture, so as to form a circular hill about a foot broad at top. 

 For a definition of the term " hill," see article Cucumber. 

 When your hills are all prepared, plant in each towards the 

 centre, six or eight grains of seed, distant two inches from 

 one another, and cover them about half an inch deep. One 



