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being inserted either in drills or by the 

 dibble, four inches apart, the plants, 

 however, to be thinned to twice that 

 distance. If a vacancy occurs, it may 

 always be filled by plants which have 

 been carefully removed by the trowel 

 from where they stood too thick. The 

 seed inserted during the hottest period 

 of summer, should be either soaked in 

 water for five or six hours, laid in damp 

 mould for a day or two, or the drills be 

 well watered previously to sowing. 



The pods of both lands are always 

 to be gathered while young, by thus 

 doing, and care being had not to injure 

 the stems in detaching them, the plants 

 are rendered prolific and long lived. 



Forcing. The hotbed must be of 

 moderate size, and covered with earth 

 nine inches thick. When the heat has 

 become regular, the seed may be in- 

 serted in drills a foot apart, and the 

 plants allowed to stand six inches 

 asunder in the rows. Air must be ad- 

 mitted as freely as to the melon. The 

 same precautions are likewise neces- 

 sary as to keeping up the temperature, 

 taking the chill off the water, c., as 

 for that plant. When the seed begins 

 to sprout, the mould should be kept 

 regularly moistened ; and when grown 

 up, water may be given moderately, 

 three times a week. The temperature 

 should never be less than 60, nor 

 higher than 75. 



Those sown under frames in March 

 for transplanting into a border, when 

 two or three inches in height, must in 

 a like manner be hardened gradually 

 for the exposure, by the plentiful ad- 

 mission of air, and the total removal of 

 the glasses during fine days. If any 

 are raised in pots in the hothouse, they 

 must, in a like manner, be prepared for 

 the removal, by setting them outside 

 in fine days, and there watering them 

 with cold water. 



If the season is too ungenial to re- 

 move them even to a warm border, 

 the plants are often inserted in patches, 

 to have the protection of frames or 

 hand-lights at night, or as the weather 

 demands. 



Runners. As these are more tender, 

 and the seed is more apt to decay, 

 than those of the dwarfs, no open 



ground crop must be inserted before 

 early in May, to be continued at inter- 

 vals of four weeks through June and 

 July, which will insure a supply from 

 the middle of this last month until 

 October. 



They are so prolific and such per- 

 manent bearers, that three open ground 

 sowings of a size proportionate to the 

 consumption, will, in almost every in- 

 stance, be sufficient. 



They are inserted in drills, either 

 singly, three feet apart, or in pairs ten 

 or twelve inches asunder, and each pair 

 four feet distant from its neighbour. 

 The seed is buried two inches deep, 

 and four apart in the rows, the plants 

 being thinned to twice that distance. 



If grown in single rows, a row of 

 poles must be set on the south side of 

 each, being fixed firmly in the ground, 

 they may be kept together by having a 

 light pole tied horizontally along their 

 tops, or a post being fixed at each end 

 of a row, united by a cross bar at their 

 tops : a string may be passed from this 

 to each of the plants. If the rows are 

 in pairs, a row of poles must be placed 

 on each side, so fixed in the ground 

 that their summits cross, and are tied 

 together. 



If the runners are nipt off as fast as 

 they appear, the plants become bushy, 

 and are nearly as prolific as if allowed 

 to climb. 



To obtain Seed. Forty or fifty plants 

 of the dwarf kinds, or thirty of the 

 runners, will be sufficient for a mode- 

 rate sized family. They must be raised 

 purposely in May, or a like number 

 from the crop in that month left un- 

 gathered from ; for the first pods always 

 produce the finest seeds, and ripen 

 perfectly. In autumn, as soon as the 

 plants decay they must be pulled up, 

 thoroughly dried, and stored in the 

 pods. 



KIELME'YERA. (Named after a Ger- 

 man patron of botany. Nat. ord., 

 Theads [Ternstroemiacese]. Linn., 13- 

 Polyandria 1-Monogynia.} 



Stove evergreen tree. Cuttings of young 

 shoots, getting firm, in sand, under a bell- 

 glass, and in heat ; fibry sandy loam. Summer 

 temp., 60 to 75 ; winter, 45 to 55. 

 K. exce'lsa (tall). 60, White. July, Brazil, 



