398 KITCHEN GARDEN DISPLAYED. 



^ig holes two or three feetwide, a foot or eighteen 

 inches deep, and four feet afunder in the row 5 

 nil them with hot dung, trodden down mo- 

 derately firm, earth it over fix inches, and ei- 

 ther put in plants or feed, as above. Put on 

 the glafles, they will produce good crops, 

 from June till September. 



Or, for want of hand-glaffes, make a hot- 

 bed, or holes, as above-mentioned, in the 

 end of April, or in May. Put in plants or 

 feed, and cover with mats of nights and bad 

 weather; or the bed defended with oiled- 

 paper frames, to remain conftantly. 



Let all thefe crops of cucumbers, under 

 hand-glafles, &c. have proper fiipplies of 

 water, in dry warm weather, two or three 

 times a week, or every day, in the hotteft 

 feafon. 



Natural-Ground Crops. 



Natural-Ground Crops of cucumbers 

 are obtained by fowing in compartments of 

 rich earth, the latter end of May or beginning 

 of June, when the weather is fettled jn warm 

 and dry ; —to produce late fruit, and for 

 picklers, in Augufl and September. 



They may be fowed, fome in a warm bor- 

 der, and the main crop in any open compart- ^ 

 ment. Dig the ground ; then form fhallow 

 bafon-likc holes with the hand, a foot or fif- 

 teen inches wide, a yard diflance in the row, 

 and five or fix feet between. Sow in the 

 middle of each Jiole eight or ten feeds, half 

 an inch deep ; and when the plants are come 



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