I CO the Tf dtltcal Kitchen Gardiner, 



hot ingredients. On which account I 

 judge that cucumbers ougiit never to be 

 eaten before Ma/y nor after the latter 

 end of July^ or fome fmall time in An- 

 guft^ except it be very fparingly. 



SECT. 11. CHAP. XIV. 



Of the methods of making the hot- 

 bedsy &c. 



THE method of making hot-beds, 

 and all the other culture and ma- 

 nagement of cucumbers is, as has been 

 already hinted, the fame with melons 5 

 tho' experience teaches, that whefl the 

 plants are yet young and tender, and 

 the feafon of the year is very early, 

 they require rather more care and at- 

 tendance than melons do j tho* as they 

 are planted very near to one another, 

 they generally participate of the fame 

 care and trouble. 



The method of making the feed-bed 

 (as before in the cafe of melons) is to 

 caft the dung together on a heap to 

 fweat for three or four days, mixing it 

 with cole-afhcs, or tanner's bark, to 

 make the bed heat with lefs rage, and 

 I " to 



