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 early to fow Melons for the firft crop, though 

 by many gardeners they are fown in the former; 

 but thofe frequently mifcarry, or produce fuch 

 fruit as are unfit for the table. 



The Mufhroom beds muft now be carefully 

 guarded from great rains and fnow, which, if 

 they are not well defended from, will chill the 

 beds, and deftroy all the fpawn, fo that they 

 will never recover it : therefore it is the fureft 

 method to have one or two beds covered with 

 frames, or made under a (hed thatched over 

 with ftraw, which will protedt them from bad 

 weather; fo that a good Quantity of Mufh- 

 rooms may be obtained in the worfl: feafons, by 

 this method. 



Plant fome Kidney-beans upon a moderate 

 hot-bed for an early crop ; obferving, when 

 the plants are come up to give them air, when- 

 ever the weather will permit ; otherwife they 

 will draw up weak, and not produce fruit. 

 The beft fort for this purpofe, are the Dwarf 

 White, or the Batterfea Bean, which never run 

 much to halm, and are plentiful bearers ; but 

 it is now generally pradifed in fuch places 

 where there are hot-beds for the Ananas, to 

 have a row of pots placed on the walks behind 

 the tan-bed in which Kidney Beans are plant- 

 ed, and when care is taken in their culture, a 



good 



