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before 5) and towards the latter end of 

 March, or beginning of JpriL the ridge 

 for the main crop ought to be made 5 

 by which means your melons will come 

 in in good order, in May, June, July, 

 or beginning of Auguft, after which me- 

 lons iofe much of their true and natural 

 tallc and goodnefs. This ridge ought to 

 be four foot wide, and three foot high, 

 and about thirty foot long, it being to 

 hold four frames, in each of which are 

 three holes, which make in all twelve 

 holes, is fufficicnt for the firft crop, in the 

 largefi: melonrics 5 three frames, making 

 nine holes, and about twenty two foot 

 long, or two frames, making about fifteen 

 or fixteen foot long, containing fix holes, 

 will be fufficicnt for a fmaller melonry, 

 that is, for the firft and carliefl cropr 

 of dung If the dung be dry, which can t be 

 frcper for xvcll chofc iu a large defign for ridges, 

 as for fmaller beds, it muft be mix'd 

 well with that which is new and moid, 

 and watered as you make it up 5 the 

 dung having laid a day or two in fweat- 

 ing, as is before fet dov/n. And as e- 

 very yard long will take up two or three 

 waggon load of dung, fo thereto fliould 

 be added half a load of cole-afhes, or 

 I tanner's 



