54 ON THE CULTURE 



to have It, as \te\\ as poflible, flieltered from the high 

 winds and boifterous flormy weather. 



That the bed be not by any thing whatever ob- 

 llrucled from the genial or warm and nourifliing rays 

 of the fun, is another object of great importance. For 

 although artificial heat will caufe the feeds of cucum- 

 ber plants to vegetate and fpring forth, yet that vege- 

 table can be brought to no degree of perfedtion 

 without the influence of the fun, and even his rays 

 are at times abfolutely neceifary. However, it will 

 be found fufficient, if, in the fliortefl days in winter 

 when the fun fliines, he be not hindered from fliining 

 on the frames from about ten o'clock in the morning 

 till about two in the afternoon, 



It is alfo worth confideration to have the bed built 

 in or near to the kitchen garden, fo that it may be 

 handy to carry from thence the rotten expended 

 dung to fuch quarters of the garden as may require 

 to be manured. Regard alfo Ihould be had that 

 nothing ftand in the way to hinder carts or wag- 

 gons from bringing the warm dung near lo the place 

 in which the bed (lands. 



There are two forts of earths or moulds, without 

 which, or a part of one or the other, I apprehend, a 

 cucumber plant will not grow vigorous, nor produc 

 fruit plentifully. The one is animal mould, the other 

 is vegetable mould, and which are in fact nothing 

 elfe but the putrefaction of earth after it has been 

 altered by palling through the animal and vegetable 

 veffels. 



What 



