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oft'; to remedy this I tried the following experiment with 

 great fuccefs : let there be in the bailiets fome plants to 

 fpare, and as loon as you perceive the truit fet, the flower 

 on its top opening, and that the fruit does not iwcll iati, 

 take the male bloflom, clip olT the top until you come to 

 its eye, which fet into the funnel of the female flower, lo 

 that the eye of the male and the eye of the^ female 

 flowers may be clofe joined, covering them with fome bafs 

 matt, fo as to exclude all air ; then cut off all other vines 

 from the plant, and pinch that which is to fland to two 

 joints above the iVuit, and in two days you will perceive 

 the fruit to fwell fafl:, when the piece of inatt is to be taken 

 off", ffill preferving a regularity in the heat of the bed. 



When the feafon comts in warm, and your plants ape 

 flow in putting forth fruit, ufe this expedient, pinching 

 the vine above the fruit, and taking off all runners, ex- 

 cept that upon which you have the Iruit. 



I have alfo raifed early Melons, but did not begin this 

 work until the end of January^ or in the firft ten days 

 of February. I had likewife hot-beds for early Peas 

 and Kidney-beans, which, in mild winters, were fit for 

 the table in Marchy cr the beginning of April. 



Dire^ions for raifmg Peafe and Kidney-Beans upon 

 Hot-Beds. 



THE Peafe which I ufe for this purpofe, are T<ead- 

 man's prclifick dv.ai f, and the dwarf Sugar pea. 

 Ihey are to be fown near a well expofed fouth 

 afpe<5led wall, about the twenty-fourth of September ; 

 fctting the feeds very near the wall, as foon as you per- 

 ceive them coming up, cover t'r em over again to the 

 depth of an inch ; in froft they muff be covered with 

 peafe haulm, wheat ffraw, fern, or whatever will 

 keep out this enemy. About the latter end of fa- 

 piiary, the Peafe, (if the .winitr has been mild) will 

 be fome inches above ground, when it will be proper to 

 make a hot-bed for them, in the manner as has been 

 diiecfed ft)r Cucumbers, except lliat in depth, il'C 

 tJung is to be onK two tcct, 



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