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no purpofe : for experience (hows, that 

 plants * fown about the fi'rft of February 

 will fucceed better, and produce fruit Toon* 

 er, than thofe fown at any period prece- 

 ding. 



Some raife feedling Cucumbers and me- 

 lons in pine floves, dry (loves, early-for- 

 cing houfes, &c. and tranfplant them into 

 dung hot-beds. But, it muft be confefled, 

 they are not equal to thofe raifed in a feed- 

 bed prepared for the purpofe ; as in the 

 one they are but a fecondary objed:, where- 

 as in the other, they are the principal-: 

 befides, there is a great difparity of cli- 

 mate. 



Cucumbers are often fuccefsfully produ- 

 ced in boxes, placed in the pine (love, See. 

 at an early feafon : but, as the heat of the 

 ftove is not regulated for their fakes, it 

 may be unneceflary to fay more on that 

 head, than that they (hould be placed in the 

 mod airy fituation, (hould be filled with 

 rich light compoft, and be duly refreshed 



with water. 



Having 



* I wifh to be underdood as fpeaking generally ; . 

 there may be many exceptions : I alfo mean plants of 

 the fame fort. 



