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THE seasons for making the beds have been already observed under the article of preparing the dung. With respect to the situation, they may either be in melonary or cucumber ground, in a dry elevated spot, and a warm sunny exposure; or in any of the large quarters of a dry kitchen garden.

They may be made either entirely on the surface, or occasionally in a shallow trench. In low or strong soils, where there is danger of water remaining in Winter, or after hard rains, elevate the bottom of the bed sufficiently from the wet. By its being entirely on the surface you have the opportunity of employing the whole bed quite from the bottom, which could not be so well effected if part were buried in a trench. If it be designed to have