OF ESCULENTS. 



SECT. XV. 



Yet thefe covers, being fet upon bricks, may be kept 

 always on ; but let ihefruft, that happens to be without 

 fide, be covered with a hand gtafs\ which will help to 

 Tipen it. Let the lights be protec ed in heavy rains, by 

 laying fome cloth, or mat, over; and towards the do'fe 

 of fummer, guard the plants well againft much cold 

 nights. 



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A THIRD crop of melons may be fawn (in fa- 

 vourable fituations) towards the end of April, or begin- 

 ning of May, if the former crop was fown about Mid- 

 March, and this is to be proceeded with in the fame 

 manner as the fecond. When September comes, (as 

 was obferved) late melons mult be preferved, as much 

 as poffible, from cold and wet, that they may ripen. To 

 this end, glazed frames may be ufed over all, or at leait 

 hand ghffes put over each iruit, covering warmly up 

 with mats on nights. Thole melons that do not ripen 

 may be ufed for mangles, and make good ones.. 



SECTION xv. 



OF ESCULENTS. 



THE usefulness of efculent plants, as ferving 

 for the food, health, and pleafure of man, is pretty 

 generally acknowledged; aftd that they may net fail 

 to anfwer thefe ends in the beft way. let them have 

 every attention ; and that, not only in their cultivation, 

 but in their preparation for the table. Let there be no 

 flight put upon the bounty of Providence in or- 



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