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If you would chufe therefore for ear- 

 ly melons, you fhould chufe of the 

 fmalleft kinds, but particularly of thofe 

 that are apt to knit at the firft or fc- 

 cond joint, for which fome are more 

 apt and difpofed than others; but time 

 has pointed out thofe that are amongft 

 the melons, as it has amongft peas, 

 beans, cucumbers, and others of the 

 hortulan and vegetable tribes. But thefe 

 melon feeds muft be coliefted by long 

 acquaintance, diligence and experience, 

 there being little to depend upon of 

 thefe kinds that are bought at the feed- 

 mens fhops in London^ or elfewhere 5 

 the early green little melon, and the 

 Anjou or Icay melon being the chiefeft 

 of this clafs. 



Of the middling kind of melon feed, 

 or thofe that are defign'd for the main 

 crop, there are almoft innumerable kinds 

 that are to be colleded, and that with 

 little coft, in almoft any garden of ac- 

 count now in Englandy this fruit being 

 fo very common. 



But there are fome obfervations on 0/ the ag$ 

 the age, and manner of faving it, and"/ ^^^'^ 

 the time when it Is proper to fow it/method % 

 that xnuft not be omitted in this phccjavm^ it. 



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