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faggots in the bottom of your Trench, the better to caufe the 
moifture to (ink away from your dung, and which may be ta¬ 
ken away when you trench your ground again, or as you fee 
caufe. ' 
Of the Ordering of Cucumbers. 
I F you defire to have them very early, you mu ft obferve 
the feme method that is fet down for the railing of Musk- 
Mellons, only there is not fo much neceftity of pruning to 
caufe them to fruit, but if the top-fprout be nipt when they 
are (hot out three or four Joynts, it will undoubtedly caufe 
them to knit the (boner for Fruit 5 they are as tender to bring 
np when they are (own early as Mellons5 but if you begin 
with them any time in March , it will be time enough if you 
have Glades $ and then you (hall not need to make Ridges to 
plant them out at large, but only to make holes about the big- 
nefs of a Buftiel or bigger, the which you are to fill up with 
warm ftable-dung,fetlingit clofe, making a hole in the midft in 
which you are to plant three or four Cucumber Plants with 
their mould about them, and then to earth them up,fo as they 
may (land as it were in a Bole or Pan, the better to hold wa¬ 
ter, which they ought to have in good plenty when they begin 
to fruit efpecially: alfo if you raife them tenderly and under 
Glades, you muft ufe them (bat firft planting, otherwife a little 
cold wet will deftroy them 5, but if you cannot afford to glafe 
■" j|hem,you muft not plant out until the Weather be very warm 
and dry, and then at firft to (hadow them from the Sun, in cafe 
the mould were ftiaken from the Roots,until they had recover¬ 
ed new Root, but yet giving them Air as much as-may be if 
temperate j only lightly covering them with draw, or fome 
other convenient things every night, iflike to be cold .* Re¬ 
member at firft planting to give them a watering, but if you 
will not be at the trouble of railing them on a Bed, then you 
may any time from the beginning or middle of April, to the 
