THE FORCING GARDEN. [JULY. 



given in the two last months; as nothing particular 

 requires further to be noticed, till about the first of 

 August ; when the bark-beds will require to be re- 

 newed, the plants to be fresh potted, the suckers to 

 be taken off the old stocks, and be planted. 



OF MELONS. 



Qf growing late Melons in a Fined Pit. 



A flued pit, such as that for nursing pine-apple 

 plants, or in which to force asparagus, strawberries, 

 &c. (described in Section I. at page 277,) is a very fit 

 compartment in which to grow a late crop of melons, 

 and is much to be preferred, for this purpose, to a 

 common hot-bed; because, if the season prove cold 

 or wet, a proper temperature can be kept up, and 

 damps can be expelled, by aid of the flues. 



About the middle or latter end of July is a fit 

 time to plant. The seeds, of course, should be sown 

 about the first of the month; and the plants may be 

 raised in any of the hot-beds now r at work, or under 

 hand-glasses. It would only be wasting time to give 

 directions for this ; the process being more simple 

 and less tedious than that attending the rearing of 

 early melons, already fully noticed. I shall therefore 

 suppose they are to be ready for ridging out, about 

 the third week in the month, and so pass to the pre=- 

 paration of the pit for them; but shall first observe, 

 that, with respect to the kinds to be sown, those fit- 

 test for early, are also fittest for late crops; and, that 

 1 would, for my own part, choose the early Golden 



