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in the July issue of this journal. 
seed may be sown lf required. 
More 
LETTUCE. 
If plants are available, say three 
or four inches high, plant out in good 
rich soil, which has been trenched and 
well manured, in rows a foot apart each 
way. : 
-MELons. 
Melons will grow, after a fashion, on 
most soils, but a fairly rich, loamy soil, 
resting on a stiff subsoil, is about the 
best suited to its nature. The cultiva- 
tion of melons is similar to that of cucum- 
bers. Mark off the land in 6-feet squares: 
and at each intersection make a hole 2 
feet in diameter. If the soil be not, 
naturally rich, mix with it a compost 
made up of well-rotted stable manure, 
sheep or poultry dung, wood ashes, bone- 
dust (if procurable), and a little salt. 
Fill up the hole with this prepared soil, 
and sow five or six seeds in it in a ring. 
Half an inch is deep enough for the 
the seeds. When they are up, take out 
all but two plants in each hill. Stop all 
lateral runners as soon as they show 
fruit, and the secondary runuers must be 
pinched back to the fruit in the same 
manner, If the weather is dry, give the 
beds a good soaking with diluted liquid 
manure about once a week. Water every 
evening sufficiently to damp the soil 
right down to the roots, but no stagnant 
water must lay about or the plants will 
not thrive. 
As the vines begin to run, it will be 
noticed that they do so with greater 
rapidity, and the runners look . most 
healthy and succulent, when they make 
their way over some particularly rich 
patch or overa manure heap. The reason 
for this that the rootlets emanating from 
the vines find their way into the rich 
humus, and extract nourishment, which 
is thus conveyed direct to the young 
vine. It is the same with pumpkins and 
cucumbers; hence, when preparing for 
melon-sowing, it is always well to spread 
‘a light coating of farmyard manure over 
the soil the vines will probably follow. 
To ascertain when a melon is ripe, tap 
it with the knuckles, and, if a hollow 
drum-like sound is heard, the melon is 
THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
ripe. 
Good varieties are — Black Spanish, 
Cole’s Early, Ice Cream, Fordhook 
Early, and Mammoth Champion, Rock 
Melons we can recommend are—Yellow 
Cantaloup, Early Hackensack, Rocky 
Ford, Long Island Beauty, and Emerald 
Gem. 
This only refers to water melons. 
Pie melons are cultivated in the same 
manner as the above. 
hardy, and the melons keep a long time. 
The flesh when stewed and made into 
pies is an excellent substitute for apples. 
They are very 
Mountain, or ORAcH SPInaca, 
This is also known as Tree, Cape, and 
French Spinach. 
as Spinach. Sow in drills 2 feet apart. 
The leaves are used 
_ When the plants are 3 to 4 inches high. 
thin out to 18 inches apart in the rows. 
Oxra, or GomBo, 
Make a small sowing in rows from 2 to 
3 feet apart. 
The green seed pods, while young and 
tender, are used in soups, &c., to which 
they give a thick, jelly-like consistency 
and fine flavor. 
Pumpkins, SquasHes, TRoMBoNES and 
VEGETABLE MARROWS. = - 
These are all cultivated in the same 
manner and sown at the same season of 
the year as melons and cucumbers. The 
The only difference is that they require 
much more space, owing to their more 
vigorous growth. The holes should be 
8 feet apart, instead of 6 feet, and only 
one plant of pumpkins in each. In the 
case of custard marrows, two plants may 
be left. 
Ravisu. 
‘Sow either in drills or broadcast, and 
when the plants are fit thin out to about 
two inches apart. 
Rate. 
Make a ‘small sowing of Broad-Leaf 
Essex Rape in the same manner as 
Mustard and Cress, Itis a very whole- 
some vegetable; the leaves are used as 
Spinach, and also as a salad, 
Tomato. 
More seed may be sown. This excellent 
fruit was fully dealt with in the August 
issue of this journal. 
September 1 100% 
Sea Kate. 
Continue blanching, as adviscd in our 
last issue. 
New ZEALAND SPINACH. 
Try some seed of the above, which will 
be found a 
It grows freely and produces 
very valuable Summer 
Spinach. 
leaves of the greatest succulency in the 
hot weather if watered. It is used in the 
same way as the other Spinach. 
Sow the seed in a bed, 4 inches apart, 
and when the plants are 8 inches high 
plant out in light rich soil in rows 3 feet. 
apart each way. 
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