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fecton. As foon as you are provided with four frames 

 and glaffes, ot about one foot fquare ; lay out a piece of 

 ground in your Melonry of twelve feet fquare, well ex- 

 pofed to tiie morning and noon fun ; at the corners ot 

 this bed, )ou are to fet your fniall frames, which as foon 

 as the Melon plants have filled, they are to be taken a- 

 way, to give place to a double frame of twelve feet 

 fquare, to have glaffes in front and rear, fhelving like 

 the roof of an houfe, but every ether way conflruded 

 like the common frames. 



When the four beds are made up, and covered with 

 the fmall frames, and in good temper to receive the 

 plants, make a hill in the middle of each, in the form 

 of a flat cone, of eighteen Inches high, of the compofl: 

 direSed ; upon which plant two young plants, and no 

 more, {if of the Cantaleupe Melon, one plant will do, 

 as it is not to be removed) obferving to fhade, water, 

 and cover them at night, as has been before dlrefled. 

 And here I muft give a very neceffary precaution to 

 Melon-men : When you have made the four fmall beds, 

 cover them with the frames for two or three days, and 

 as foon as the exceffive heat of the dung is over, lay on 

 your compoft, otherwife it will be rendered ufelefs. Be 

 careful to give them air in mild weather, and to 

 wipe off the Ifeam from the glaffes in the morning. 

 In two weeks after tranfplanting, they will fliew their 

 third joint, the top of which you mufl: pinch off with 

 your fingers, to provoke the plants to fend out lateral 

 branches, which we call vines or runners; and if they 

 have but two vines, pinch their tops; but if you per- 

 ceive a plant too viny, take off two or m.ore of the 

 fmalleft vines to the very ilalk of the plant ; three weeks 

 alter this, you will obferve the vines will have grown 

 to t e foot of the hills, on which the Melons were 

 planted, at w hich time you are to lay your vines regular, 

 making ready your double frames for u"e ; and as your 

 fma!! beds v/ere made above the furface that divides the 

 fmall frames, take away tiie earth in the fpaces between 

 tiiefe frames, and fill all vviiii new dung to the very 

 (ules of tiie fmall frames, taking care lliat this new- 

 dung, has been well managcil and fwcat^'d as that for 

 hot-bccl ufc ; then, after it has been well ieve'lcd, r.nd 



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