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respects the same as those before described.

_For January sowing._

The boxes to be ten feet seven inches long, four feet eight inches wide,
one foot eight inches deep at the back, and eleven inches in the front.
The bars and slips the same as for October.

The lights to be four feet eight inches and a half long, and three feet
six inches wide, with four bars, six squares long, rabitted, puttied,
and a small piece of lead across to every square. In other respects to
be the same as those for October.

_For Spring sowing._

The boxes to be one foot two inches deep at the back, and eight inches
in the front. In other respects, the boxes as well as the lights for
spring sowing, must be the same as those directed for the January
seed-bed.

Both boxes and lights should have three coats of paint, white inside,
and a dark lead colour on the outside.

ON THE CULTURE OF THE EARLY AND LATE

Melon.

ON THE MANAGEMENT REQUIRED IN THE CULTURE OF

Early and Late Melons.

For early melons have three loads of dung for a three-light box; but if
you have previously grown early cucumbers, the old linings will be
useful for the melon bed, by mixing a proportion of one half of fresh
dung with it. This, in fact, will be better than all fresh, as it
requires only once turning, whereas new dung should be turned twice. In
gentlemen's gardens there is generally an abundance of leaves, and
sometimes a scarcity of dung; when such is the case, leaves, mixed with
an equal proportion of dung, may be used very successfully for the
early melon; and for the late one all leaves, from trees or shrubs, will
answer the purpose, particularly where there are brick pits.

Let the dung be put together for a week, and lay the same time before it
is turned. Be careful that the bottom is dry where the bed is built;
raise it with mould or road sand to the height of six or eight inches,
and allow the bottom to be eight or nine inches longer and wider than
the box, so that when the bed is made, it may be drawn up in a gradual
manner to about three or four inches wider than the box, observing at
the same time to beat it well down with a fork. Let it be about three
feet nine inches at the back by three feet six inches in the front;
should there, however, happen to be a scarcity of dung, a foot of
strawberry or asparagus halm, fagots, or pieces of wood, or, indeed,
some of each, may be added at the bottom of the bed.

If the dung is dry