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cucumbers and melons, you are to pro- 

 ceed to that work in a few days after 

 the fame has fweetned well. Now fow 

 your main crop of fpring collyflower 

 plants, as alfo feveral forts of cabbage 

 plants, to come in at the latter part of 

 the year j fow alfo favoys to fucceed 

 them that were fown in Auguft\ but 

 this is not the main crop 5 continue 

 planting out collyflowers taken out from 

 under the bell-glaffes, leaving one of 

 the ftrongcft under every glafs, to come 

 in and fruit early. Now it is, or it had 

 been better to do it earlier, even in the 

 preceding month of February, if the 

 weather be tolerably good, that you 

 muft furround the above-mention d bell- 

 glaffes 5 and as the dung wherein they 

 were planted in the autumn is now fup- 

 pos'd to be rotten, you muft cut or take 

 away the old dung with a very fliarp 

 fpade, leaving only a ball within the 

 cavity of the bell-glafs, to keep the col- 

 lyflower plants fteady ; and having ex- 

 cavated the faid old rotten dung quite 

 out, and as deep as you poffibly can. 

 with convenience, get fome good new 

 hot dung and ram it all round the faid 

 ball or bell-glafs, for this will ftrike in 



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