64 T^he ^raBical Kitckm Qardinier. 



in three ox fou^ months 5 and here in- 

 deed the e^rlinefs and gpodnefs of the 

 feed, together \vitH the warmnefs 

 fecurity of the place, has a great band. 

 If the >y^ather proves gpqd, you majj 

 few youf melons (of the early kind) 

 bout the or of February \ tho* if 

 it fiiould prove but indifferent, i^ ai^ 

 probability thofe that are fown about 

 the middle or latter end of the fame 

 month, or the beginning of March^ may 

 be as forward 5 hovv^ever, it is not pro- 

 per to fow all your early fee4 ^ pnce, 

 but at two or three tim^es, that in cafe 

 one crop miffes, another may hit. And 

 the firft thing to be dpne, is the nurfery 

 or feed-bed. 

 Of mahing You are to get together what quan- 

 the^ melon xlty of dung you fhall think fufficient 

 ' ' to make your nurfery-bed, which may 

 be about four or five foot wide, fix or 

 feven foot long, and about four foot, 

 or four foot and half high : let it be of 

 the dung that the horfes have made for 

 one, two, three or four weeks paft (a- 

 mongft which no hog's or other cattle 

 fiiould be admitted, becaufe they fpoil 

 the goodnefs of it ) and let an equal 

 quantity, of two load, more or iefs, of 

 4 every 



