KITCHEN GARDEN. 



CUCUMBERS. 



The fruit of your early cucumbers will now begin to 

 appear ; where you have" not yet done it you must im- 

 pregnate the female flower as directed in March. Give 

 the hot beds air freely, and water them when dry; 

 attend the heat, and temper it as necessity requires ; 

 cover the glasses when the nights are cold. Direc- 

 tions at large for these purposes will be found in the pre- 

 ceding months under the article cucumbers. 



Plant cucumbers any time this month in open ground, 

 in hills of rich light earth, about four feet apart, each 

 hill containing about half a bushel of earth ; put five or 

 seeds in each hill, covering them an inch deep; 

 when the plants appear above ground a yellow insect is 

 often destructive to them ; they must be killed by hand, 

 *>r on large plantations of cucumbers they may be nearly 

 destroyed by spreading soot, wood ashes, or unslacked 

 lime thinly over the places in the morning before the 

 dew goes ofl*. 



MELONS. 



At a great distance from gourds, pumpkins, &c. plant 

 melon seeds, that have been kept at least three years^ 

 on beds about five feet wide, which must be previously 

 prepared by bringing a mixture of new earth and rotteft 

 dung. This niust be well dug into the ground the length 

 of the bed right along the middle of it ; stretch your 

 line along the middle of the bed ; plant your seeds about 

 three feet apart, four or five seeds together, an inch 

 deep. The best kinds are the nutmeg, Romana, green 

 flesh, pine-apple, large rock cantalope, &c. Destroy 

 insects when the plants appear — See cucumbers in 

 April. 



WATER MELONS. 



Plant water melons in good light ground, in hills tea 

 ftet apart ; the hills must be prepared with old ashes. 



