408 FORCING DEPARTMENT. 



be dispensed with. For succession crops, there 

 must be additional beds prepared monthly, until 

 the middle of June, when the last planting may 

 be made for the latest crop of Melons ; the beds 

 that are prepared in the latter months, will not re- 

 quire to be so strongly built as those which were 

 made up at an earlier period of the year. 



VARIETIES CULTIVATED. 



Early Cantaloup. Silver Rock. 



Netted Ditto. Roman a. 



Orange Ditto. Smooth scarlet-fleshed. 



Black Rock. Green -fleshed. 



Dutch Ditto. George the Fourth. 



Scarlet Ditto. Valencia. 



