246 On an improved Mode of Cultivating the Melon. 



and in winter with a very considerable diminution of the 

 expenditure of fuel ; and indeed I feel perfectly confident 

 that by the proper application of hollow walls in a shed be- 

 hind a hot-house, every kind of forcing culture might be suc- 

 cessfully carried on without the use of a particle of fuel, and 

 with a moderate quantity only of bark, or leaves, or other 

 fermenting material. 



