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The Traiiical Kitchen Gardiner. 



wifp of hay or ftraw, when little air is 

 required, or a tile, brick, or piece of 

 wood when a great deal, anfwers much 

 better, becaufe the air difperfes it felf 

 all over better fo than when it comes 

 thro' fo large an opening, and docs lefs 

 hurt. It would be needlefs for me, af- 

 ter all that I have faid on the furniture 

 of the melonry, to fay much of mat- 

 ting and covering, all which is obvious 

 to the leaft praftitioners in this art. 



SECT. II. CHAP. VIII. 



Of melon feed, its properties, age^ man- 

 ner of faving and keeping, 



of melon TQRopcr earth, water, frames and co- 

 ^Ztimefs*' XT ^'^^i^g being provided before, the 

 mdaifotke melonift fliould lik'ewife be beforehand 

 mam crops. the choicc of his fccdp I havp alrea- 

 dy noted, that early melons are gene- 

 rally the fmalleftr whereas later melons 

 are all larger, more ribb'd, snd better 

 and weightier melons, fince in pur cli- 

 mate, late and uncertain as it is, any 

 thing that comes very early is rather ow- 

 ing to fome imperfedi'on in nature than 

 not, tho' the difference may not be very 



