The Englijh Gardner . i o r 
end of the firft week in May, make divers holes which you are 
to fill up with dung or other foil that is good, and upon that 
to lay fome good Earth, fhaping it in fafhion ofa Bole or Pan, 
as I faid before, and then to prick in about half a dozen Cu¬ 
cumber-feeds? and then the weather being warm, water them 
now and then as you fee cade: and if your Plants take and 
thrive, three or four will be fufficient in a hole, you may pluck 
up the reft and beftow them in other places. 
Plenty of Water in dry weather, will caufe plenty of Fruit 
in cafe of much wet or cold -weather ? when your Plants are 
young, it will be the foreft way to defend them from it by co¬ 
vering, otherwife they may either ftunt or die 3 if you delire to 
faveany for feed,then you are to fave fome that are pretty for¬ 
ward 5 the riper and better grown your Seed is, the longer it 
will laft good, three or four years at leaft$ the riper your Seed 
is, the left labour it will require to wafh from the Pilp^ but 
the ripeft will require a good many feveral fhiftings of fi efla 
water to wafh it from the flimy fluff that cleaves to it. 
Pompions may be raiftd and planted as Cucumbers, either 
early or latter, but moft ordinary people dofet them on dung? 
hils, any time from the beginning of April to the beginning of 
Map, the more they are watered (in cafe of hot weather) the 
- more Fruit, and fairer they will have. 
Thus I might fpeak of divers other Plants and their order¬ 
ing, as Woad, Madder, Saffron-teaflels, &c. but in regard my 
Book fwells fo faff, I (hall forbear, and only fpeak of the or¬ 
dering of fome forts of ftnall Herbs, and fo conclude this 
Part, and fpeak fomething of the ordering of the Garden of 
Pkafure. 
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