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if the ground is dry, the dung (hould lie but 

 half a foot higher than the furface of the 

 ground; and the earth fhould be laid at leaft a 

 foot and half thick upon the dung, that the 

 Melon plants may have depth enough to root. 

 Where this is praftifed, the plants will require 

 no water after they are well rooted 5 and here- 

 by a good crop of the choicer forts of Melons 

 may be always obtained ; which, in the com- 

 mon method, generally mifcarry, or produce 

 but few fruit 5 but in wet land the ridges fliould 

 be raifed above the level of the ground, that the 

 dung may not have fo much wet as to chill it, 

 whereby the plants are often deftroyed, when 

 this care is not taken. But the alleys between 

 thefe beds {hould be afterward raifed with dung 

 and earth to the level of the beds, that the 

 roots may have room to extend on each fide, 

 for the roots of thefe plants fpread as far in 

 the ground,, as their branches extend on the 



)g^ . You may ftill fow Sweet IVlarjoram, Thyme, 

 Summer Savory, and other aromatick plants ; 

 the firft of which does not fucceed if it is fown 

 too early, efpecially if the fpring is cold and 



Plant Kidney Beans the beginning of the 

 month in a warm lituation, and in dry wea- 

 ther. 



