Journal of horticulture, cottage gardener and country gentlemen . ling toolow, and causing the plants to be at too great a distancefrom the light. Such pits are very useful in winter andspring for Endive, Lettuce, early Potatoes, &o., and a cropof Melons may be had after these, by planting strong plantsin May, or at the latest by the beginning of June. Thefermenting materials give the plants a start, and sun heatcarefully husbanded must be made to do the rest of thework. The bed is soiled, and otherwise treated as describedfor fig. 3. The figure shows the state of the pit about a month afterpl
Journal of horticulture, cottage gardener and country gentlemen . ling toolow, and causing the plants to be at too great a distancefrom the light. Such pits are very useful in winter andspring for Endive, Lettuce, early Potatoes, &o., and a cropof Melons may be had after these, by planting strong plantsin May, or at the latest by the beginning of June. Thefermenting materials give the plants a start, and sun heatcarefully husbanded must be made to do the rest of thework. The bed is soiled, and otherwise treated as describedfor fig. 3. The figure shows the state of the pit about a month afterplanting; a is the bed of fermenting materials; b, soil overit; c, open space for the plants to grow in; d, the groundlevel; and e, the spout to can-y ofi the rain water, whichmay be collected in an old barrel sunk in the ground. The flued-pit represented in fig. 5, is chiefly employed forgrowing late Melons, and when not in use for that purposeis utilised in a variety of ways. There is a space for ahotbed (a) to be formed of dung, leaves, or other fermenting. Fig. 5. materials ; h, shows the soil above it. There are sometimesmoveable trellises for training the plants on, as at ^d, d, Angnstie, 1864.] JOUENAL OF HOBTICULTUEE AOT) COTTAGE GARDENEK. 133 are flues, the hot air passing along one end and the frontfirst, and then along the back. Melons to afford a late cropmay be planted as late as the beginning of July, and if theyset their iruit in August they may be ripened by fire heat,no more of that being employed than is necessary. In thisway Melons of moderate flavour are obtained in October,and up to Christmas, but not equal to those ripened insummer, when there is a longer continuance and greater in-tensity of light and sun heat. Fig. 6 is what may be termed an open pit, being nothingmore than earth dug out a yard deep, and a single brickwall, a 0, run round the outside; 6 consists of wood faggots
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