Mar.] The Kitchen Garden. iij 



Soio Cucumber and Melon Scjd, 

 Sow in the above, or any new- made hot-beds, the feeds of 

 cucumbers and melons at the beginning, and alfo about 

 the middle, and towards the latter end of this month, to 

 have a fupply of young plants in readinefs either to plant 

 into new beds, or to fupply the place of fuch plants aa 

 may fail. 



The forts of cucumbers are. 



The early Ihort prickly. 



The long green prickly. 



The white prickly, 



The long green Turky, 



The long white Turky, and 



The Smyrna. 

 But the two firil forts are commonly cultivated for the 

 general crop, the Ihort prickly being the earliell:, and is 

 ■therefore often fov/n for the firll crop, in the frames; but 

 the long green prickly is the bcil to fow for a main crop, 

 either for the frames or hand-glafTea, or in the natural 

 ground. 



The white prickly, and the Turky and Smyrna kinds, 

 are not eligible for any general crop, becaufe they are 

 very indifferent bearers, fo iliould fow only a few by way 

 of variety : the Turky kinds often grow fifteen or fixteen 

 inches long, or more. 



Making nen.v Hot-beds to tranfplant CucmnberSy ^c. 



Make hot-beds the beginning of this month, to plant 

 the cucumber or melon-plants upon, which were fown 

 the end of January, or beginning of February. 



Let the dung for this purpofe be well prepared, in the 

 manner diredled in the former month, before you work it 

 up into a bed ; this fhould never be omitted, for a great 

 deal depends upon it ; make the bed three feet high, or 

 thereabouts, beating the dung well down with the fork, 

 as you lay it on the bed : but do not tread it, for a bed 

 which is trodden hard is rendered fo compa<fl, that it fel- 

 dom comes to a kindly warmth, but is apt to heat too vio- 

 lently, to the deilrudlion of the plants. When the bed 

 is finifhed, put on the frame and lights, and let it be 

 managed, in every refpedl, as direded in the former 

 month ; nnd let the plants, either cucumbers or melons, 

 be planted and treated in the manner there diretled. 



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