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pafs of ground, fince it would be impot 

 fible to do the fame in large extenfivc 

 gardens $ but for a gentleman who has 

 but two or three acres of ground, fup- 

 pofe it were to be four or five, what ad- 

 vances are there that he might not make 

 in all hortulan and culinary produdions-* 

 Nor do I recommend it for tender fal- 

 letings, melons, c^^. when young j but 

 for vegetables of a more rapacious na- 

 ture, fuch as collyflowers, ire, but for 

 vines, peaches, (^c, nothing can equal 

 it. And fo much concerning water. 



SECT. IL CHAP. VI. 



Of melons, cucumbers, pumpkins, gourds , 

 6cc. their appellations and kinds , dec. 



TH E melon, by the Latins call'd of the 

 alfo melo, is the principal fruit of 

 all the kinds which are rcduceable to 

 this head, as it is indeed of the richeft 

 flavour and tafte of any of them, and 

 is fo caird; as Talladius, and from him, 

 Bauhinus tcftifies, from a * Greek word 



* Tria cucumeris generis ftatui poflunt, cuciimer, pepo 

 5: melo hoc genus Palladius melones quafi y^Xoyoic, id ell, 

 pomcos, a malonim figura appellavit Bauhin, 



I ' that 



