1. Superphosphate of lime and sulphate of potash. This plot has afforded the largest amount of melons of full size, and contains most at present, matured and maturing.

No. 2. Burned Turf

The clusters have been closer than either of the others; the total amount less than the one above.

No. 3. Muck Neutralised By Potash

This plot has produced an amount of melons equal to No. 2; nearly all have been matured for some days, evidently exceeding all the others in this respect.

No. 4. Ashes

This bed has exhibited the greatest number of very large melons; has not equaled No. 1 in productiveness.

No. 5. Soil Without Mineral Manure

The melons of this bed appear to be intermediate to No. 1 and 4 as to size; to No. 2 and 3 as to productiveness.

It would seem, therefore, that melons of No. 1 excelled in size, quantity and lateness; those of No. 3 in the early maturing of the entire crop; and those of No. 4 and 5 in the size of select specimens; in their productiveness, being inferior to No. 1 in number.

My own taste preferred the flavor of the melons grown in No. 1 and 3, where superphosphate of lime and sulphate of potash, and humate or gyate of potash, exercised their specific influence.

Specimens, however, corresponding with these beds and dates, were sent to my neighbor, Mr. Downing, and his practised judgment will be most satisfactory, touching the important question whether inorganic manures can modify the flavor of melons.

1850. - Holes were dug in two feet trenched ground, and hills formed similar to those of the present year, with this exception, that old manure was applied in place of guano. Beds were composed of - potash in muck - ashes in muck - burned turf - superphosphate of lime - superphosphate of lime and sulphate of potash - sulphate of soda in muck - salt and lime mixture, and poudrette.

The melons fed by humate of potash exceeded in number, size and flavor; those by poudrette equalled the previous in number and size; and those by superphosphate of lime, and lime and sulphate of potash, equalled the first in flavor, and approached the two previous in size.

1851. - The experiments were repeated the present year; but illness at the time most essential to an opinion, interfered with any accurate conclusions. My gardener, however, renders a decided preference to the product of the beds modified by the preparations of potash and superphosphate of lime.