MANAGEMENT OF FRUIT TREES, &c. 11 



Collect annually as many loads of leaves as you conveniently 

 can, which make up into hot-beds for late Melons and Cu- 

 cumbers, and for early Potatoes, &c. Firft plant the beds 

 with early Potatoes ; at the fame time fow Radifh and Let- 

 tuce feeds mixed together. When the Radifhes are pulled, 

 thin the Lettuces, leaving a fufficient quantity for a crop ; 

 by the time the Lettuces are fit for cutting, the Potatoes be- 

 gin to cover the bed. After the Lettuces are all cut,, you 

 fhould put fome of the leaf-mould clofe up to the ftems of the 

 Potatoes, which will run very faft into the frefh manure, and 

 produce a fine early crop. When you have dug up the Po- 

 tatoes, take off all the fine vegetable mould till you come to 

 the leaves that are not yet rotten ; then with a fork turn up 

 the leaves, adding Come frefh leaves at the fame time, which 

 will caufe a frefh heat to come up in the bed ; when this is 

 done, put on the lights and keep them clofe for three or four 

 days : if the weather be fine and clear, there will, by that 

 time, be a fine fweet gentle heat. 



You may then fow or plant Melons or Cucumbers in the 

 beds. 



When the heat begins to decline, and the fruit to fwell, 

 put a frefh lining of leaves, tvvo feet and a half broad, round 

 the beds. The beds may be broken up the fecond Winter .; 

 by which time you will find the top part of them rotted to a 

 fine black vegetable mould, which will be the beft manure for 

 the borders againfl the walls. 



A good coat of this manure once in two or three years will 

 be fumcient for the borders where the wall-trees ftand, and 

 much better than dung, which 1 by no means approve of 

 for trees, unlefs it be perfectly rotten and mixed up with; 

 mould. 



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