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obfervtd, the roots oF Cucumbers and Melons grow- 

 to the lame length of their runners. 



The dung taken from {tables where the cattle are fed 

 on ftraw, is the befl: for garden ule. And in order to be 

 as frugal as poflible of your dung, plant Cabbages and 

 Collyflowers on your Onion-beds, which are always 

 highly dunged, and hold good a long time, for many 

 other crops. 



In order to encreafe your dung, in O^cher take the 

 leaves of your trees, and mix them with mould, by lay- 

 ing a flratum of leaves and another of earth alternately; 

 this makes a very rich and clean ccmpofl: for moft 

 kitchen-garden ufes, particularly if helped uith a little 

 unflaked lime; in the fnring it will be fit for ufe. 



Some perfons Ake tljc garbage of their kitchen-gar- 

 den for this purpofe : I do not approve of this me- 

 thod of making dung, nor ©f the cleaning of ponds, 

 unlefs it is left to rot for fome years. 



In fome fituations, where there is a fcarcity of ma- 

 nure for land, and an extent of woods or large groves, 

 gentlemen would find their accounts in clearing their 

 bottoms of the rotted h;aves, which, when turned up 

 with earth, and a mixture of unflaked lime, would 

 make a good manure for moil: grains, and is well 

 worth their attention. The ditches, and where the 

 wafhing of the woods may be carried, fliould be taken 

 up for the fame purpofe. 



I have feen cows-dung made ufe of for ridging Cu- 

 cumbers and Melons, and when well tempered, it keeps 

 the heat as long, if not longer, than horle-dung ; and I 

 would prepare cows-dung lor my fiower-garden in ridg- 

 ing of hot-beds, as it rots much looner in that way, than 

 by turning, as I have obferved in the article of preparing 

 this dung for the compofls for the Oriental Hyacinths. 



Befides thefe hot-beds of dimg, there has been difco- 

 vered, within thefe few years, another kind of hot-beds, 

 made of tanners-bark, which are thus prepared : Th.e 

 pits or trenches to hold the bark Ihould be three feet 

 deep, and never lefs than twelve feet long, and fix feet 

 broad, as a lefs dimenfion will not keep the heat; if 

 they are fixtcen or twenty feet in len!i,th, they will retain 



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