June. The Gardeners Kalendar. i8i 

 Mint, Lavender, Clary, Sage, Marigold flow- 

 ers, ^c. and hang them up in a dry iliady 

 place, where they may ^dry leifurely, which 

 will render them better for any purpofe, than 

 if they were dried in the fun ; and this is the 

 beft feafon for diftilling moft forts of herbs, 

 which being now in flower, are much better 

 than when they are fufi^ered to ftand longer. 



Your Melon plants, that are growing upon 

 beds which are not deeply earthed, and are 

 now fetting of their fruit, fhould be (haded in 

 the heat of the day with mats, if the weather 

 fliould prove very warm, otherwife their fruit 

 will drop ; and you (hould be careful not t© 

 give them too much water, which is often in- 

 jurious to them. The beft method is, to wa- 

 ter the alleys between the beds, which will foak 

 through to the roots of the plants, and there- 

 by fupply them with moifture j and there will 

 be no danger of the plants rotting by this me- 

 thod, as the water will not come near their 

 ftems. 



Gather up fnails in the morning and even- 

 ing, and after (bowers of rain, at which times 

 they will come abroad from their holes and ' 

 places of harbour, fo that they are eafily de- 



ftroyed. 



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