FLAN OF A NEW FORCING-PIT. 
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pregnation should be assisted, as will be directed for the Cucumber. 
The Melon, being a plant rather impatient of much lopping, the Vines 
should be spread out thinly at the first arranging of the shoots, and the 
knife but sparingly used until the first crop is ripened off, only thinning 
out the weaker and unproductive Vines. But as soon as the fruit is ga¬ 
thered, it should have a thorough pruning, cutting away all the weak 
and unhealthy shoots, and shortening back those that are to remain to 
the most promising joints, which will push out strongly, and may pro¬ 
duce as good or even a better second crop than the first. The heat of 
the beds will require to he kept up, by the exterior linings of dung, 
until Midsummer, when if the weather is at all favourable, the effects 
of the sun will keep the internal atmosphere of the beds sufficiently 
high, and the linings may be dispensed with. For succession crops, 
there must be additional beds prepared monthly, until the middle of 
June, when the last planting may be made for the latest crop of Mel¬ 
ons ; the beds that are prepared in the latter months, will not require 
to be so strongly built as those which were made up at an earlier pe¬ 
riod of the year. 
ARTICLE III. 
PLAN AND DESCRIPTION OF A NEW FORCING-P1T. 
BV MR. W. MATHERS. 
1 solicit your attention to the enclosed Plan of a New Forcing-Pit, 
(fig. 32) which I have proved, with the exception of the position of the 
Roof. The chamber in which the dung is placed is 4 feet deep be¬ 
ing about 18 inches below the surface line, the walls which surround 
, it are 9 inch brick work, on both fronts are two openings 2 feet 6 in. 
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square marked M, each with moveable doors through wffiich the dung 
is introduced, the doors fit at top and bottom into a groove and fas¬ 
tened across with small wood bars into one round and one open staple 
as marked. In front of the doors is a small area marked A, sunk in 
