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there remain to fruit. Pumpions will do very well 

 fometimes (in favourable feafons and filiations) fown 

 in May, on cold ground. The feed {hould be covered 

 near an inch, and the plants kept earthing up. as they 

 grow. When they have {hot five or fix feet, peg 

 down the runners a little way in the ground, and earth 

 over, they will ftrike root. Water well in dry and 

 warm weather. The orange gourd looks very pretty 

 when trained up a ftrong pole, ipirally, or to a wall. 



Radish is of two kinds, the fpindle rooted, and the 

 round, of each of which there is a variety. Of the 

 former we have the early purple, _ and the early- pink 

 fhort topped, and late large topped ones of both forts. 

 Of the round there are the white, Hack, and red turnep 

 radifhes. The white (ot which there is a fmall and 

 large fort) is moftly cukivated, but the others are 

 good; the black grows lafgej and the red fmall. The 

 purple forts, and the fmall white and red eat the cooleft. 

 The order of coming in from the time of lowing is, 

 the purple, and the pink fpindle forts, and the turnep, 

 red, white, and black : The latter is very hardy for 

 winter ufe ; out the coarfeif . 



For the firfi crop, the early purple fhort top may be 

 fown the latter ends of October, November, and De- 

 cember, (chiefly the laft month) in a warm border, and 

 have a chance ot furviving the winter, if a little pro- 

 tected in frofts by J} out Jticks, about two inches high, 

 ftuck Hoping in the ground, to fupport mats; or by 

 laying peas haulm, or wheat jlraw, lightly over them, 

 which may be an inch or two thick, as the frofr. is; 

 but no longer than it laft s fhould the covering be on. 

 The flrft open weather in January and February few 

 again, and in thefe months, and the preceding one, 

 cover the fowin^ over with fome ftraw, and it will 

 help to fetch the feeds up, and preferve them from 

 being thrown out of the ground by froft, as alfo from 

 birds. As foon as they begin to appear, let thern be 

 uncovered, to harden them to the air, if the weather 

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