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plants to grow in, some wattled hurdles being laid upon these pieces of wood, 
on which place about nine inches of rather dry dung, either fermenting or other¬ 
wise for the plants to feed upon. Next put on the frame and lights, &c.; and 
stop up the ends at the vault with pieces of board, or stakes, and build a lining 
very firmly against them. A quantity of litter should also be placed against 
the bottom of each wall, high enough to prevent the steam or heat from passing 
through the rubble which forms the foundation of the bed. 
Mr. Smith also uses the steam and heat in the vault, to grow mushrooms, 
asparagus, and other articles. This is effected by placing a common frame at 
the end of his cucumber bed, and admitting the heat from the vault into it, by 
means of a pipe two or three inches in diameter, and three or four feet long; 
one end of it being placed in the vault, and the other in a hole in the side of 
the frame. 
The best means of destroying milepedes or wood-lice, in his cucumber frames, 
Mr. Smith believes to be first to entice them into some part by dry litter, crumbs 
of cheese, See. and when collected, to pour upon them boiling water from the 
rose of a common watering-pot. This may be done with good effect in the 
vault beneath the bed. 
To prevent the rank steam of the dung linings from entering, when air is 
given, Mr. Smith nails a strip of common Russia mat at the top of each light, 
so as to hang over the back of the frame tw T o or three inches. The practice of 
shading the plants often, Mr. Smith disapproves, and gives air proportionate to 
the existing state of the heat. A few observations on the culture of melons and 
early potatoes, with an index, close the book. 
The system is evidently a good one, and well calculated to answer the 
purpose; and having carefully examined the work, we can with confidence 
recommend it to all cucumber and melon growers. The directions are plainly 
and sensibly written, and evidently prove that the author is a man of close 
observation. To follow the directions given, it will be necessary to purchase 
the book itself, as the few extracts, we have taken will convey but a faint idea 
of the method Mr. Smith recommends. 
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