The Tragical Kitchen Gardiner. 5 3 

 Sure it is from experience, that mt-ofmsanh 

 Ions require fo mucli flronger earth ^^^^^^ ^jj/""^ 

 the cucumbers do, efpecialiy when they 

 come to be ridged out, for want of 

 which it often happens that melons die 

 and go off as foon as they come to 

 fruit, and the fruit grows yellow and 

 drops off ; or if it does dwindle along 

 for fome time, it is flat, infipid, and 

 good for nothing, when we exped its 

 perfeftion. 



Por melons then take the following p^^^^^«</^;, 

 account for a preparation for earth. ^Z^^^'^^^'' 

 One load of old melon earth, or dung"^^^^''^* 

 that is well confumed, one load of 

 burn-bak'd earth, or fuch as the farmers 

 in the Weft country burn on their fheep- 

 downs, which is exceeding good in all 

 garden compofts 5 and one load of loam, 

 fomething inclinable to fand 5 and, if it 

 can be got, one fourth of a load of 

 fea-fand, that has lain fome time till 

 the fire of the fait is qualified 5 or in 

 the room of it, fheep or deers dung, 

 the fame quantity ; let all this be mix'd 

 together the preceding fumnier before 

 you intend to make ufe of it, and well 

 turn d, air'd, and meliorated, and about 

 Michaelmasy or towards Chrijimasy let 



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