The Tra5iical Kitchen Gardiner. lo^ 



they prefcribe that feed fhould be fteep'd 

 in milk, or warm water, for four, fix, 

 eight, ten or twelve hours, more or 

 lefs, according as its age is : And I may 

 add, that in cafe it is a very good kind^ 

 and the feed is old, the infufing it in 

 fome warm water, wherein is put a lit- 

 tle faltpeter, and other frudifying ingre= 

 dients, it can't but add fpirit and life 

 to that which is otherwife in decay. 



The bed being made as before, earth of the^ 

 it, and fow the different kinds of feeds '"'''^^7 



/- « -11 1 cucumber 



feparately, in drills about an inch deep, has, 

 as you did the melons, covering it over 

 again with your finger, and putting flicks 

 or numbers of every diftind kind you 

 fow, differently numbred and referr'd 

 to in your pocket-book, and the place 

 from whence you procured the faid feed y 

 chufing for your firft crop only the fhort 

 green cucumbers, that knit at the firfl: 

 joint ; for on this choice depends all 

 the fuccefs that gardiners fo much vaunt 

 and brag about early bearing, being, as 

 I have elfewhere hinted, nothing but 

 an imperfedion in nature, and the pro- 

 duce of a Hunted kind of fruit 5 but as 

 cuftom has fo far prevail'd upon us, 

 and without this a gardiner^ however 

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