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be stored in the Girnel — dispute about lease — 

 impartial justice^ ..... 75-76 



XXVI 



(SOlh Sept. 1742.) 



Work suitable for season — Bell slack with workmen 

 (hired) — planting elms_, firs, oaks, ashes, beeches — 

 proportions of each — planting (proper method) — 

 nothing heard about pruning — the old churchyard 

 — interruptions in writing — heavy rains — see to 

 planting and harrowing for weeds, . . . 76-79 



XXVII 



{nth Odr. 1742.) 



Bell remiss in writing — severe reproof — orders about 

 building and kinds of house allowed — stupidity of 

 Scotch thrift — opening up the quarry — loss of trees 

 through building — trees from Kelso by the carrier — 

 excuses for indolence, .... 79-81 



XXVIII 



(6th Nov. 1742.) 



Directions as to planting — minute report wanted — success 

 of mulberries — planting of hedges — blunders in trans- 

 planting trees — previous neglect — ferns stacked — 

 wet ones for manure — sloes and briers from Cramond 

 — winter weather^ ..... 81-83 



XXIX 



(igth Feb, 1743.) 



See to planting trees and hedges about the town — how to 

 keep seed — care of fruit trees on walls and espaliers 

 —fowls, kinds and treatment — feeding pigeons — 

 elder for hedges — memorandum of trees planted, 

 1742 and 1743, . . . . . 84-87 



