The TraEiical Kitchen Gardiner. 



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SECT. II. CHAP. X. 



Of the tranfplanting them out of the 

 feed into the nurfery-bed, jhading, wa- 

 terings giving them frejh earth, air, 

 &c. 



BY an infpcftion into the culture o^Anomtjjim 

 melons, as delivered by fome of our f^^^^^^ ff^ 

 modern authors, I find little notice taken /or^trJf- 

 of a fecond bed, or beds, to be madc/'^^"''"^ ^ 

 for the pricking melons and cucunibers^^f^^,^^^* ^ " 

 out from the feed- bed, tho' it is the 

 conftant pradice of all melonifls, and 

 the omitting of which is, I humbly con- 

 ceive, the giving very infperfed: direc- 

 tions to the learner, in this fo ufcful 

 an art, fince there is no praditioner that 

 does not know that neither melons nor 

 cucumbers are tranfplanted direftly out 

 of the feed-bed into the fecond bed : 

 and 'tis indeed in the fecond bed that 

 there is required all the care and dili- 

 gence I have before laid down as to the 

 feed- bed, fince 'tis here they mifcarry, 

 as much or more than any where. 



When the plants in the feed-bed come of the time 

 to be pretty ftrong, which they will be;{^'^j^2 



