% 04 The Tragical Kitchen Gardiner. 



fo ingenious otherwife, muft be ftigma- 

 tizd for one unknowing in liis art or 

 bufinefs, let us purfue our direftions ac- 

 cordingly. 



S E C T. II. CHAP. XVI, 



Of the time of fowing the firft cucum- 

 bers, 



IT is v/cll known that the early kind of 

 cucumbers will bear in about a month 

 or fix weeks, or two months at moft, 

 in cafe the water be tolerable, and the 

 plants do not meet with any baulk in 

 their raifing , you fhould therefore fow 

 them as early as you can in January, 

 and let your mold be dry, and your 

 glalTes and frames fo clofe that no wet 

 nor air can get in, your plants at this 

 time of tiie year, for want of fun, be- 

 ing in very great danger of rotting with 

 the wer, or being pinciVd with the cold 5 

 and you mxuft be very watchful, and 

 make ufe of every glance of the fun you 

 can get, to clierifh your plants, laying 

 clean wheat-Hraw on your glalles to har- 

 den them by degrees 5 and you may put 

 a woollen cloth, as Mr. Bradley direfts, 



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