tremlty of thofe branches fo diftant, thit Melons will grow • but 
they cannot be good, becauCe they are fo far from the place, 
which affords them their nourifhmeatj and their Juyce is alter'd 
/ by the length of ics paffage through the branches, which the 
Sunfpoileth^, whereas the foot of the Melon being ftiorcand 
well trufs'd, there are always leaves covering the branches and 
even the Melons themfelves, until they be near ripe. 
Too great heat parches them too much to take nourifliment 
, well? and this you muft take care of. He that is curious, muft 
' cveiy day walk often in his Melon-garden , to cut off all the 
branches, which he (hall obferve to be ufelefs, or hurtful, You'l 
find of them to Ihoot forth almoft to the Eye^and they are ca^ 
pable to alter all, if it be not remedied in time. 
I muft not forget to cell you, that from the midft betwixt the 
two Ears and the two firft Leaves there ftioots out yet one branch 
more , which ought to be kept^ if vigorous, but cut, if 
weak. 
In the Figure I have mark'd a Leaf with 5, (hooting out from 
the midft of the fourth knot : I might have mark'd more. coming 
forth fueceffivcly from one another, as you fee the fourth come 
from the third, &c. 
We may perhaps the next Moneth impart t§ the Reader another 
JLetter fr^mthe fame Generous and Intelligent perfon^ upon the fame 
Snhje^, 
An Account of two Books, 
L %enati Franc. Slufii MESOIA'BVM. 
S E U 
JDudi mtdtA Froportionaks inter extremas datas fer Circulum & per 
Infnitas Bjferholas vd Ellif(es^c^ per quamlphet exhibits, 
Ac frobUmatum omnium Solidorum ejfeBio fer eajdem Curvas, 
Jccefit fars altera de Analjfi , Mijcellanea. Leodii Eburo- 
nura 1668. in thill 40, 
T He Argument the Title declares to be the fame with that 
in the Geometry of the famous Bes-Cartes t, viz. Thac 
Ancient Probleme of findiog tm Means, of Doubling the Cube ^ 
L I 1 1 2 which 
