T1oe TraSfical Kitchen Gardiner. 



about two, three, or four days after, ac- 

 cording to its temper, as before fet 

 down 5 let it be in rows about three 

 inches afunder one from another, and 

 about two inches apart in the rows, 

 keeping every kind of melon by it fclf, 

 as it was wlien you fow'd the feed, that 

 fo yon may diftinguifh the fcveral kinds, 

 and plant an equal or fuch a quantity 

 of each as you fhall beft like 5 giving 

 the preference to fuch only as are ex- 

 quifitely good. 



There are many that tranfplant their 

 plants out of the feed-bed into baskets 

 or little pots, and fo remove them from 

 bed to bed, till they come to the ridge. 

 And this has indeed been the method 

 of many praclitioners for fome years i 

 tho' now in a great meafure laid afide, 

 for that the often tranfplanting them 

 entirely naked out of one bed into an- 

 other, is found to make them take ne- 

 ver the better and frefher roots 5 where- 

 as they don't do fo the other way , and 

 tho' by the other way I am now talk- 

 ing, the plants are lefs check'd, that the 

 checking is rather an advantage to the 

 bearmg and profperity of the plant than 

 not 5 and experience teacTies us how well 

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