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be ufed to dellroy them while they are young, before they 

 get the Hart of the crops. 



Pay particular regard to your fmall crops; as onions, 

 carrots, parfneps, and the like; weeds grow much quicker 

 than they do; and if ihey are not weeded in time, either 

 hv fmall-hoeing, or hand- weeding, the weeds will foon 

 pvertop the plants, and occafion much labour and trouble 

 to clear them. 



Take the opportunity of dry weather, and hoe the 

 ground between the rows of beans, peas, cabbages, and 

 cauliflowers, and other crops that fland wide, to deftroy 

 the weeds. 



A large piece of ground may foon be gone over with a 

 hoe, when the weeds are fmall ; but when they arc per- 

 mitted to grow large, it requires much labour to deltroy 

 them. 



Gcufds and Pumpkins. 



Now you may fow the feeds of gourds and pumpkins* 



The forts are. 



The orange gourd. 



The pear-ihaped gourd. 



The warted gourd. 



The long gourd. ' 



The fqualh, or calabafli. 



Common pumpkin, many varieties. 



With refped to fowing the feeds of any of the above 

 forts, it is to be obferved, that, in order to bring the 

 plants forward, to produce and ripen their fruit early in 

 autumn, they mull be fown in a hot-bed, either under a: 

 frame and lights ; or dig a wide hole, and put therein a 

 large barrowful or two of hot dung, and cover this five 

 or fix inches deep v^'ith light earth ; then draw fmalt ■ 

 drills, and fow the feed, covering them near half an inch 

 deep, and place a hand or bell-glafs over the bed ; or, 

 for want of thofe, a fmall frame, covered either with a 

 glafs or oiled-paper light ; obferving alfo, to throw a mat, 

 &c. over the bed on nights. When the plants appear, 

 give plenty of air every day, by raifing the glafs; for 

 they mull be brought by degrees to bear the open air 

 fully, to harden and prepare them for tranfplanting. 



But thefe feeds fhould not be fown until the third or 

 fourth week in the month ; and they will be ready to 



tranfplant 



