142 T^he Gardeiurs Kakndar. May » 

 are but {hallow or narrow in earth, the Vines 

 will require (hading in the great heat of the 

 day : but the covering fliould not remain on 

 too long, which is as great a fault on the other 

 fide ; for it is only the mid-day fun which can 

 be too violent for the plants, and that only in 

 extreme hot days, which fometimes happen in 

 this month. But fuch plants as have been 

 raifed under hand glaffes for the fecond crop, 

 ihould have full liberty to grow, by raifing the 

 glaffes upon three bricks or forked flicks, and the 

 ends of the plants laid out from under the 

 glaffes : but this muff not be done too foon, ef- 

 pecially if the nights are cold 5 which if it 

 fhould fo happen after the plants are laid out, 

 they muft be covered with mats every night, 

 to prevent their being nipped by the frofl. 



When the Melon plants are fuffered to run 

 out from under the glaffes, the paths between 

 the ridges fhould be filled up level with the 

 ground on the ridges, and the whole trodden 

 down very hard ; which is a fure method to 

 caufe the fruit to fet, provided the plants have 

 no water and they are expofed to the open air 

 at all times in the day when the weather will 

 permit. 



The early Cauliflowers will now begin to 

 appear in the center of the plants 5 therefore 



they 



