408 Plan for obtaining a Second Crop of Melons. 



some weighing seven or eight pounds each, varying in this 

 according to the kind. The plants also yield abundantly, 

 being much more productive and healthy than if they were 

 old plants cut in, in the usual manner. I have uniformly 

 gathered of the second crop from twelve to twenty fruit in 

 each light. 



A considerable advantage belonging to this plan is, that 

 the plants never run to length, they need no more stopping 

 than already described, nor do they require any thinning of 

 the shoots. I have also to observe, that it often happens in 

 Melon plants, not raised from cuttings, that the stems near the 

 roots will crack, and when water is poured upon such places 

 it causes the plants to perish ; but this is never the case with 

 those raised as above described. 



At present, I have an abundance of fruit upon fine healthy 

 plants, which since they were taken off as cuttings, have 

 borne fruit upwards of two months. 



I am, Sib, 



Your most obliged and obedient Servant, 



Charles Harbison. 



Worthy Hall, 

 October Ibth, 1825. 



