104 T^-'^ Gardenkr's New Director. 

 mr.de as hir:h as the dunp; in the fmall beds, cover this 

 new dung with the prelciihcd compoft earth, eighteen 

 inches deep; on this depth of earth depends very much 

 the fuccefs of your crops, as fuch as have no more than 

 fix, eight, or ten inches of foil to grow in, have decay- 

 ed and died away. In a temperate evening, having 

 taken off yonr fmall frames, and ordered the vines, lay- 

 ing tuo or three inches of frefh compoft earth under 

 them, pulling out all weeds, taking out all ufekfs leaves, 

 or fmall ufelefs runners, and giving them a gentle wa- 

 tering at the extremities of the vines, but not near the 

 ftcms of the plants, then lay your new double frames 

 over them; next morning wipe the glaffes clean, raife 

 them up if it is a good day, but fhade the plants for one 

 whole week after, that their leaves fnay not flag bv this 

 addition of heat, and alteration of air, until they are 

 ufed to it for forpe days. To this method of managing 

 Melons, in giving them a new heat, I was obliged to 

 have recour'e, particularly when the i>lants begin to 

 fliew male, or what fome erroneouflv call falfe bloiloms, 

 \vhich you inuft not t-ike away, !or,"from experience, it 

 is certain, that thofe flowers arc the male blofrc.ms, which 

 impregnate the' female, and which in Melons and Cu- 

 tumbers always gro-.v opon one end of the vonnH- fruit : 

 when you obferve the young fruit and th.ir blofloms ap- 

 pearing, and that many of them turn yellow, or fall off, 

 then is the precife time to sfufT: nature in this cold cli- 

 mate {'fours, without wiiich you cannot expeci: to have 

 good Melons. If you obferve any of the beds decline 

 in heat, remiOve fome of the old dung all round the bed, 

 to be replaced with fome frefli dung and litter, to reco- 

 ver the heat, and bring your plants forward. 



That I may be underftcod when I write of double 

 frames, I ihaii obfeive, that they rife in the' ridge two 

 feet, Hoping to eight inches, and in every other refpeft 

 are made like the common frames, and fb large as to 

 contain the whole fpace of ground within them Vv'hereon 

 rtood the four fmall frames I have juft mentioned, and 

 that in fuch a manner, as that the pl.mts which were in 

 them, will be in the centre of each of thefe'glaffes: it is 

 called double, becaufe it has glaffes both to the fouth 



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