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weather in this month is ge- 



\£^ nerally more unfettled than in any 

 other month of the year : fome- 

 times it proves dry and frofty ; at 

 other times cold and wet, with ftorms of hail, 

 and ftrong v/inds ; which makes a diligent at- 

 tendance upon the hot-beds of Cucumbers and 

 Melons abfolutely neceffary ; otherwife they 

 often mifcarry, or, at leaft, lofe all their firfl 

 crop of fruit : to avoid which, if your beds 

 have very much declined their best, you fhould 

 add a lining of new horfe dung round the fides, 

 which will renew the heat of the beds ; and 

 alfo obferve to cover the glaffes clofe v/ith mats 

 every night j but in the day time they muft 

 have frefli air, in proportion to the heat of the 

 beds, whene\^er the weather vv^iil permit, efpe- 

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