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by the aid of new liniags. This has alfo 

 failed of fuccefs ; as it hath been found, 

 that the old dung contains a more nox- 

 ious damp than the rjew ; and the fre- 

 quent lofs of heat in the linings occa- 

 fions a conftant perplexity. The fame 

 caufe, too rank a heat and fleam, gave 

 rife to the trial of this method as the for- 

 mer. 



Late crops of Cucumbers and melons 

 may be raifed with fuccefs in flued pits, (I 

 fpeak experimentally) 3 but I have ever 

 found that early ones may be much better 

 produced on a dung hot-bed. The caufe 

 is obvioufly, that thefe plants delight in a 

 mild, moift heat, and are impatient in a 

 dry, fire heat. The latter, however, is of 

 infinite fervice late in the Autumn, by dry- 

 ing off the external damp, and haftening 

 the maturity of the late fruit. 



Where tanner's bark is plenty, and the 

 more valuable material, dung, is fcarce j 

 thefe fruits may be fuccefsfully produced 

 by compofing the bed of bark, with as 

 much dung or litter as will fuffice to build 

 the outfides ; or by building retaining 1 walls^ 



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