MANAGEMENT OF FRUIT TREES, fcc. 223. 



Melons are beft worked in brick pits, coped with (lone or 

 oak, about twelve feet wide and two and a half deep : the 

 length lhould be according to the number of frames that you 

 work. The fize of the lights, for early Melons, lhould be 

 five feet long, and three broad ; but for others they will re- 

 quire to be fix feet long, and four broad. The former fhould 

 be four and the latter three light boxes. For the pits, a nine- 

 inch wall will be fufficient ; and if they are intended for a 

 wood coping, the bricklayer muft build in fome pieces of 

 timber to fallen it to : but where ftone can be had at a rea- 

 fo nable rate, 1 would give it the preference, as wood rots 

 very foon. 



There fhould be a walk between the ridges, about fix or 

 feven feet broad, fufficient to admit a cart to carry dung, 

 which will be much more expeditious than wheeling. The 

 walk fhould be made up as high as the coping, and Hoping 

 gently towards each end ; the bottom fhould be filled up and 

 covered as before directed : this will be eai'ily kept clean ; fo 

 that, after your linings are made up, it may be kept as neat 

 as if it were in a pleafure- ground. 



It will be necefTary to make a loofe drain along the middle 

 of the bottom of the pit, to convey away any wet, and the 

 oozing from the dung, to a cittern, or tank, made on purpofe 

 to receive it. This moifture, which is the ftrength of the 

 dung, may be ufed for watering Cabbage-plants, Cauli- 

 flowers, &c. or it may be thrown on the ground for manure. 

 I have experienced it to be much better than dung. 



When a garden is planted and fi.nifhed, it will be found 

 very convenient to have a plan of it, with the name of each 

 tree inferted in its proper place. This I had done when the 



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