loS The Gardener's New Director. 

 odour, and taftes extremely pleafant. I made this expe- 

 rrment upon fix of them, and they eat vaftly well, and 

 their feed came up the year following in great plenty, 

 and fruited well. 



Direclions for raiftng Cucumbers under Bell-GloJJes 



Never ufed frames to Cucumbers, except the earliefl: 

 lorts, for thefe continued to give me fruit until the 

 plants fruited, which I raifed under bell or hand-glaffes, 

 in the following manner. 



About tf,e 15th or 20th of April, I dug holes in the 

 Melonry, in ftraight lines, four feet fquare, one foot deep 

 below the furface of the earth, and fix feet from one a- 

 nother ; thefe holes I filled with borfe-dung, prepared 

 in the fame manner as has been direOied for hot-beds, 

 working it well, and laying one foot more of dung 

 above the furface of the earth ; 1 then covered them 

 wiih the Melon com pod:, to the depth of twelve inches, 

 and upon every one of thefe holes, I put two bell glafies : 

 in three or four days, when I perceived the heat in 

 good temper for fowing, I put under every glafs fix or 

 feven feeds, wliich in a few days appeared above ground. 

 I look care to cover their ftaiks, with the compoft-earth 

 as they fpired, fliading the glafles in the evenings with 

 matts, and giving them as much water as was requifite ; 

 in a lew weeks the plants grew ftrong, and were pre- 

 paring to run; which, when I perceived, I took out 

 three of the weakeft, leaving four under the bells; but 

 before I drew them, I filled up the fpaces between the 

 holes with good hot dung, and working it well, and 

 covering it over v.ith twelve inches of goodcompoft; 

 there, 1 planted my Cucumbers which I drew out, taking 

 care to water and fhade them, and matt them at night, 

 until I perctived they were again growing. So foon 

 a^ the plants under ihe bells, and thefe jufl tranfplanted, 

 put .out runners, I pegged them down, and as their 

 .^ runners grew longer, I lecured ihem, raifing the bells, 

 10 aHow the plants 10 run from, under the.m ; and 

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