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eight or ten feeds in each hole, and cover them in ; this is 

 called dotting them in : or inftead of this, you may draw 

 drills acrofs the bed ; the feed is to be fown in the drills, 

 obferving to fow them quite ihick, and in clufters, at leail 

 eight or ten good feeds in each duller; put the feeds io 

 clofe together in each duller, as to aim oil touch, jmd 

 cover them near half an inch deep with earth; allov/ a 

 clear fpace in each drill of about an inch between each 

 patch or duller of feed, and let the drills be two inches 

 afunder: by thus lowing the feed in clu Hers or patches, 

 the plants will alfo rife fo for traniplantalion ; obicrving 

 to cover the bed with mats on nights, and all bad wea- 

 ther ; and when the plants have been come up fix, eight, 

 or ten days, and fhew the rough leaves in the centre, 

 it is proper to plant them out, if the weather is fettled ; 

 taking them up in cluflers as they grov/, with the earth 

 about their roots, and in that manner let them be planted 

 in the places where they are to remain; allotting one bunch 

 of plants to a hole, and giving them immediately fome 

 v.'.iter ; they v/ill quickly llrike root without hardly feeling 

 their removal, and will require no further care at this time 

 than a little water now and then, piovided it be dry wea- 

 ther, for they will grow away freely without flagging. 



This, in a bad feafon, is a very good metnod, and 

 worthy to be put in pradice. 



Plant and Soto Gourds and PumUns, 



Plant out from the hot-bed the gourds and pumkins 

 which were fown in Api^il; it may be done any time to- 

 wards the middle or latter end of this month. 



Some of them may be planted out in the common 

 ground, in a warm fituation, about the middle of this 

 month, when the weather is fettled in warm ; they wjll 

 grow freely, and produce ripe fruit in Augull; and the 

 common pumkin is often fowed or planted upon old dung- 

 hills, where they will fpread wonderfully, and produce 

 many large fruit. 



But if you defire to have any of the curious forts in 

 fruit fooner than common, you Ihould, in the beginning 

 of the month, plant fome out upon holes of hot-dung, 

 under hand or bell-glafTes, or other occafional Ihelter: 

 make fome holes two or three feet wide, and about a 

 fpade deep, in the places where the plants are to produce 

 their fruit, filling the holes with a barrowful or two of 



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