June,] The Kitchen Garden. 261 



This kind of frame will be a great protedlion to the 

 plants and young fruit, if cold and wet weather ihould 

 happen about the time of its fetting j and it will alfo 

 fcreen the plants from the too great heat of the fun. 



Thefe frames Ihould always be placed upon the ridges, 

 as foon as the plants begin to advance from under hand 

 or bell-glaffes ; the glaffes muft be firll taken away 

 before the frame is placed on the bed. 



By this method a good crop of melons may be always 

 obtained, provided the frames be properly conllrufted, 

 and the paper fecurely palled on, and well oiled with 

 linfeed oil. 



Such perfons as are not provided with bell or hand- 

 glafTes, may, with the afliftance of thefe frames only, raife 

 good melons, provided the plants be firft raifed by fowing 

 the feed in a hot-bed, under a frame and glafles, in March 

 or April, as there direfted ; and may be planted out on 

 a new hot-bed in the beginning of May ; and the 

 papered frames immediately placed over the bed foon 

 as the plants are planted therein, and be covered ^ 

 with mats every night till the middle or latter end of 

 this month. 



But, however, thofe who have the convenience of 

 hand-giailes, Ihould always place thefe over the plants 

 when firft ridged out, and to remain till about the begin- 

 ning or midde of this month, when the plants will have 

 filled the glafles ; they fhould then be entirely taken away, 

 and the papered frame put on. 



Thefe" frames are made of thin flips of wood, and are 

 conllrudled in the manner and form of a houfe/ or arch- 

 ways ; they fhould be made firm, but light. 



Each frame fhould be ten or twelve feet long, or there- 

 abouts, and three feet and a half or five feet wide at bot- 

 tom, narrowing gradually on both fides to a fliarp ridge 

 at top, or formed in a rounding arched manner ; making 

 the whole two feet and a half or a yard high j in forming 

 it, a bottom frame is conftrudled with two inch and a 

 half wide flips of deal, framing it the above length and 

 width ; and then have either flraight inch wide rafters, or 

 hoop arches carried from both fides a foot afunder,, and 

 upon thefe the paper is to be pafted, firfl drawing pack- 

 thread both ways, asdirefled below, for the better fupport 

 of the paper. 



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