98 The Tra£ikal Kitchen Gardiner, 



more water : They are more hardy than 

 melons, if planted late, and require much 

 lefs care , it being in the power of any 

 body to raife cucumbers, that can't raife 

 melons ; but if early, they are more 

 tender, and more difficult to raife, and 

 more fubjed to difappointments. 

 The earth The compoft I would advifc, is one 

 pnpsr for j^^^^ melou earth, a quarter of 



a load of cow-dung well mouldred, half 

 a load of burn-bak'd land, and half a 

 load of loam, with half a load of wood 

 pile mold i thefe mix'd well together, 

 and laid in a heap, turn d once a month 

 all the fummer, and then kept dry in 

 a hovel or open houfe all the winter, 

 will make an excellent compoft for cu- 

 cumbers in the fpring j which when 

 rais'd early, requires as dry a foil as me- 

 lons, or any of the choiceft fruits, whe- 

 ther exotick or domeftick we have grow- 

 ing. 



0/ v&nter The water ought to be clear, fweet, 

 w -waur- ^yhoiefoi^^e water, and not that taken 

 out of horfeponds, or mingled with 

 dungs, as was prefer ibed in the cafe of 

 melons , but fliould however be warm- 

 ed in the fun, when the plants are young; 

 and tho* it has been before faid, that 



cucumbers 



