VI ADVERTISEMENT. 



the pine-appIe, melon, and cucumber plants, 

 Some people may therefore be fomewhat difap- 

 pointed when they perceive that in this volume 

 there is no receipt, remedy, or cure, given for 

 that purpcfe. 



Had I obtained fubfcriptions fufficient to have 

 defrayed the expenfe, I meant to have pubUfhed 

 another volume, including my method of cul- 

 tivating the melon and pine-apple; and to have 

 divulged a fmgular way of extirpating the in- 

 fers, and of healing the difeafes of the faid 

 plants; but having come fhort in my fubfcrip- 

 tion lift, for the prefent I have confined myfelf 

 to the culture of the cucumber only: But for 

 the fatisfaftion of thofe who are troubled with 

 difeafes or infeds in the progrefs of the ma- 

 nagement of their cucumber plants, I inform 

 them, that if they chufe to adopt my method of 

 culture, v/hich is the mofi cheap, fimple, fafe, 

 and eafy of any, neither difeafes * nor infeds will 

 moleft them, provided however that the feeds 



* wSnails and flugs may fometimes be brought into the framesi 

 dong with the mould. Thefe may be expelled by the hand ; 

 but before the' plants are fct in the frames, boihng water maybe 

 poured plentlfuHy on the mould, flues, and frames, which will ef- 

 fedually dedroy all infedls that may have got in while the lights, 

 %vcre off, or have been brought in am.ong the mould. 



Mice in dung beds are often very troublefome ; but my brick 

 bed isfo conllrudtcd that no moufe can enter. 



whicl^ 



