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:of November. The heat of the bed was then fcarcely 

 Itrong enough, nor did it become ftrong enough tili 

 about the 27th ; the plants therefore made but little 

 progrefs from the time of their being ridged out tili 

 the month of December. 



On the 2d of January 1793 I renewed the louth 

 fide lining, and on the 1 5th of the fame month I re- 

 newed the north fide lining.. The renewal of the 

 fouth iide lining was done in a proper time, but the 

 jining of the north fide fliould have been deferred 

 for a few days longer, for the weather proving coldl 



from about the midd)[e of MarcK till the mi-ddle of September, 

 but from the middle of September till the middle of March their 

 produce will be found fmall. 



Although lefs dung is required for a brick bed than for a dung 

 bed, yet it is of little ufe to try to raife early cucumbers without a 

 fufficiency of dung. I have- frequently heard complaints, and 

 perhaps not without fome degree of truth, by gentlemen's gar- 

 deners, efpecially in the country, that they were much perplexed 

 for want pf du8g, ice. and that they could have none but when 

 captious He wards or direftors of the husbandry thought fit. Such 

 rnatters often breed quarrels betv/een the gardener and the bailiff^ 

 and it is fometimes dijfificult for the gentleman to decide which is in 

 fault. 1 fhall only obferve that no difficulty of that nature 

 happens with me, becaufe I have the dire(5lion both of the bufmefs 

 of the farm as well as that of the garden, and I pay equal attention 

 to both; for it gives n^e pleafure to fee each profper. The 

 method therefore which 1 purfue with regard to th^ dung is this? 

 I frequently take the Httery dung from among the co\y-cribs, and 

 make linings for the melon and cucuniber beds of lu ^^^ when it 

 Is rotten I have it carried to the fields for manure. I often prefer 

 fuch, efpecially late In the fpring and early In the fummer, before 

 borfe-dung, becaufe its heat is generally lefs violent and more du- 

 rable. 



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