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•well rooted, and hereby a choicer fort of melons may be
•generaiiy obtained ; which, in the common method, fre-
■quently mifearry, or produce but little fruit.
The alleys between thefe beds Ihould be afterwards
raifed with dung and earth to the level of the beds, that
the roots may have room to extend on each fide, for the
roots of thefe plants fpread as far in the ground as titeir
branches extend on thefurface.
Of kidney-beans we have two forts ; the one, which
is'called the Batterfea-bean, bears early, and near the
root, without running high; and the other, grows near
fix feet high.
We fow thefe beans, the firft week in this month, about
four inches apart, in drills from north to fouth, in alight
frefli foil, covering them with earth, raifed in a ridge, to
Iceep the wet from them: the lines of the Batterfea-beans
Ihould be too feet apart; and the other fort are be fown
in rows like rounceval-peas, having alleys between them
two feet and a half wide; the former kind need not be
(taked, but the others will not bear well unlefs they are
flaked.
From the firfl fowing in this month, you may, once
every three weeks till the middle of July, continue to
fow frelh ground with kidney-beans to fucceed one an¬
other ; obferving, that when the ground is very dry, as
in June and July, and the weather hot, you mufl water
the drills as foon as you have opened them, before you
put in the feed, which will contribute to their vegeta¬
tion ; but after they are fown, you mult avoid watering
them.
Toward the end of this month, you may fow the
nonpareils, and the Spanilh morotto-peas, about two or
three inches apart in. lines, leaving a fpace of three or four
feet for alleys, till the whole is fown; and when they
grown up fix inches high, earth them up, and fet one row
of flicks or boughs about fix feet high, on each fide, for
them to rur> up, and you will have a plentiful crop.
The charlton, or mafter-hotfpur, Ihould be fown in
December, for the firfl: crop, in drills about two or three
feet afunder, the lines running from north to fouth : a fe-
cond crop of the fame kind of peas ihould be fown in Fe¬
bruary ; and in March we may put in<& third crop of the
fame fort.
Some ground may be prepared about the beginning of
April for the dwarf-peas, which feldom rife higher than half
a foot, and are to be fet four or five inches apart, in lines
about eighteen inches diftant from one another; and in
order to Iiave a coiiftant fupply of young peas, there is a
fort of dwarf peas which may be fown in May or June,
in edgings upon a gentle hot-bed, the firfl week in Sep¬
tember, and will produce peas in the winter.
Spanifh chardons may now be fown in the natural ground;
•you are to make holes for the feeds about five or fix feet
diftance, and put four or five feeds in each hole; and
when they are come up, leave growing only one ftrong
plant in a hole for blanching.
Lavender and rofemary are raifed from flips planted in
this month, which take root almofl immediately if they are
Ihoots of the laft year, but if they are older they will
not grow : thefe plants fhould be fet in a light fandy
foil, in the warmeft and drieft part of the garden.
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Flower-Garden.
The ficoides, which is propagated by the cutting?,
being planted-abroad in a natural bed of earth in this
month, will be fit to put in pots in Auguft, where it
may remain in open air till the latter end of September;
feme kinds of this plant being annual, mufl be raifed from
feeds every year; and one fort of it will fland the win¬
ter, if we raife young plants of it about July or Auguft,
that do not blolfom in three or four months.
The fhrub-kinds, which have their ftalks woody, will
bear moderate waterings ; but the others, which are more
fucculent, muft have very little water. Thefe plants
muft be expofed to the fun, which will open their blof-
foms, unlefs it be two kinds, which only flower in the
night. The cuttings of thefe plants ftiould not be planted
before the wounded parts have been dried a day or two
in the fun.
The torch-thiftle is a fucculent plant, raifed from cut¬
tings planted between May and the end of July, upon a
little hill in the middle of the pot, for they can hardly
endure water : and before they are put into the hot bed,
they muft fland abroad about twenty days to take root ;
their waterings muft be feldom, and gentle ; and the beft
comport for this plant is, the rubbifh of old walls, mixed
with about one third of fandy foil. The fidums, efpe-
cially the tree-kind, are eafily propagated from branches
fet in the earth in a light fandy foil, either in this or any
of the fummer-momhs, giving them a little water, and
as much air and lhade as poflible in the fummer; and in
the winter no water at all.
There are feveral forts of the geranium, which are
raifed by planting the cuttings, this month, in natural .
ground, where they will become proper for tranfplanting ,
the Auguft following ; and from feeds fown in March on
hot-beds. Thofe planted in the natural ground require a »
medium foil without dung, muft be frequently watered,
and houfed with the orange-trees.
The amomum Plinii is raifed from cuttings planted
this month in the natural ground : during the fummer it
muft ftand in feme place defended from the. fun, and be
conftantly fupplied with water.
Cuttings of the Arabian j-flamin may this month be
planted in a fandy foil, and is more injured by wet than
cold. At the time the cuttings are taken from this plant,
it fhould pruned to within fix inches ot the laft year’s
fhoot, and have frefh earth put to the roots; by which
means it will (hoot near a foot in the enfuing fummer.
Layers of the myrtle-tree fhould be made this month ;
the youngeft Ihoots muft be bent into the earth, alter it
is well ftirred ; and being often refreihed with water, will
take root, and be fit to take off from the mother-plants
in the fpring following. In July, the cuttings of this
tree are planted, ftripping off the leaves, two inches from
each cutting, and fetting them that depth, about an inch .
apart, in pots of fine light earth, watering them frequent¬
ly till they have taken root, which will be about the latter
end of Auguft ; and this young plantation is to remain till -
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