The TraBical Kitchen Gardiner, 109 



has a mind to try his luck on melons> 

 in order to have them early in May^ 

 ought to be as early with them as with 

 the cucumberS;, in the manner 1 am now 

 fpeaking. 



As concerning the diredions that Mr. 

 Bradley has given in gardening, about o^/^rx/^/i- 

 the faving of melon and cucumber feed ^^l^iomof 

 in November y and for keeping of the ^.l. Brad- 

 plants in conftant health and vigor till ley. 

 the fpring^ I muft own I have not had 

 the experience of it, neither have I ever 

 met with any that have 5 but it feems 

 to me to be much more agreeable to 

 reafon, and the experience I have had 

 in this curious aiFair, that the plants both 

 of melons and cucumbers fhould be more 

 contaminated and fpoil'd by keeping on 

 hot-beds all the winter, than when they 

 are rais'd with difpatch and early dili- 

 gence on the hot-bed only in the fpring, 

 the keeping of them, as I have hereto- 

 fore fet down, in a conftant growth and 

 motion, being, by all the experience I 

 ever had, the moft effential point in 

 this affair, all thefe kind of plants, 

 and cucumbers in particular, bearing 

 fruit, and coming to their perfeclion in 

 about eight or ten weeks after their fow- 



