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CHAPTER VI, 



MELONS. 



THE cultivation of this much-efteem- 

 ed fruit is fo general, that hardly a 

 garden is to be met with where it is not 

 followed in a greater or lefs degree, and 

 that too with general fuccefs. As I have 

 been particular on the forcing of cucum- 

 bers, as the treatment of thefe and Melons 

 is in many refpeds the fame ; and as I have 

 faid much on the culture of the cucumber, 

 which equally applies to that of the Me- 

 lon, it will be unneceflary to go through 

 an elaborate repetition here. I ihall there- 

 fore briefly remark any particular differ- 

 ence in their management on the dung 

 hot-bed, and then pafs to the culture of 

 Melons in fiued pits. 



Let the plants be raifed in the fame (or 

 a fimilar) feed-bed as that of the cucum- 

 ber 3 let the bed or beds, wherein they are 



to 



