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PART II. 



REVIEWS. 



Art. I. 1. Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London. 

 Vol. VI. Part IV. 



{Continued from p. 334.) 



2. Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London. Vol. VI. 

 Part VI., which completes the Volume. 



41. Plan for obtaining a second Crop of Melons. By Mr. Charles 

 Harrison, F. H. S. Wortley Hall Gardens, Yorkshire. Read 

 October 18. 1825. 



When the first crop of fruit is nearly gathered, cuttings 

 are taken from the extremities of the shoots which show the 

 most fruit ; these are cut off close under the second advanced 

 joint, or about the fifth leaf from the top ; the two largest 

 leaves at the bottom of the cutting are taken off, and thus 

 prepared, are inserted in pots (twenty-fours), two in each pot, 

 in light, rich soil, gently shaken down. After being watered, 

 the pots are placed in a one-light frame, on a hot-bed pre- 

 viously prepared, and plunged therein in moderately dry 

 soil, with which it is covered. The frame is kept close and 

 shaded for a few days, and in a week the cuttings will have 

 struck root. The old melon-plants, with the soil in which 

 they grew, are now all cleared out of the frames, fresh soil to 

 the depth of twelve inches put in, and the beds well lined 

 with fresh dung. In ten days from the time of inserting the 

 cuttings, they will be ready to plant out, which is done in the 

 usual way. When the plants have pushed about fourteen 

 inches, the end of each shoot is pinched off, to cause them to 

 produce fresh runners; and the fruit which showed on the 

 cuttings will swell rapidly, and in three weeks after replanting 

 the beds, abundance of fine fruit may be expected. This way 

 of getting a second crop is far more certain than either 

 pruning back the old plants, or planting seedlings ; because 

 cuttings grow less luxuriantly, are less liable to casualties, and 

 are much more prolific. 



