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time, otherwife, by the wounds bleeding, 

 the plant will be greatly exhaufted. 



About the beginning or middle of April, 

 It may be necefTary to line the front of the 

 bed, which let be done in the fame manner 

 as the back and ends } but it will be quite 

 imneceflary to renew thefe, as that of the 

 front will throw in a kindly heat, which 

 will laft all that month, and afterwards 

 bottom heat is of little confequence. 



Succeilional beds for Cucumbers may be 

 built in March, and in April. The fame 

 culture, as above, is to be pradtifed ; obfer- 

 ving to make the beds a little lighter, as 

 the feafon advances. 



As I am to treat of the railing of melons 

 in flued pits, when the culture of that plant 

 is treated of, and as the culture of the two 

 plants there are fo nearly fimilar ; I fhall 

 only obferve here, that the fame mould 

 muft be ufed for the Cucumbers as is re- 

 commended above, and a greater portion 

 of air and water muft be given, than to the 

 melons. 



The culture of Cucumbers under hand 

 and bell glafies, although a fpecies of far- 

 cing, 



