The TraBical Kitchen Gardiner, 



after fowing, &c. Fourthly, of the 

 tranfplanting them out of the feed in- 

 to the nurfery-bed, fliading, watering, 

 giving them frefh earth, and otiier cul- 

 ture. Fifthly, of making the ridges, 

 tranfplanting, watering, pruning, ^c. 

 Sixthly, and laft of all, the properties of 

 good melons, the time of their perfec- 

 tion, and method of gathering, preferv- 

 ing, cutting, d?"^. 



SEGT. 11. CHAP. VIL 

 Of the f tuation proper for a melonry. 



THE firft thing to be done, is the 

 proper choice of a fituation or 

 place for the melonry, the pofition of 

 which fliould be towards the South- 

 Eaft, that the fun may dry away the 

 dews that generally rife from the ftcam 

 of the hot-bed, and hang upon the glaf- 

 fes in a morning, as well as for the 

 other advantages it receives all the fore- 

 part of the day, when the fun is much 

 more healthful and nourifhing to mau;, 

 beaft and plants, than it is in the after- 

 noon. A good warm gravel or chalk 

 pit, or indeed a pit of any kind that 

 E 2 lies 



