TO HIS GARDENER 69 



then throw it by, as if saying you have read it was enough. 

 Read and consider it over and over for I can't have time to 

 repeat the same things every Post. 

 3d Feby 1741. 



They are now beginning 

 to sow in the Country about you, so pidgeons will build. 

 How do the Houses seem to be stocked ? Let White, Sandy 

 and what have very much white fly and none else. Mark them 

 and keep an account of what do fly. 



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Charles, — We have ten days of wet weather, sometimes rain 24 Feby. 1741. 

 and at others snow or hail with cold N.E. Winds. This day cold 

 frost but clear and fair. I wish it may continue that work 

 may go on again for these last ten days have been good for 

 nothing but soaking the roots of new planted trees and a little 

 warmth will make them put out roots to take a little hold 

 of the ground. I expected to have heard yesterday of your 

 having received the Trees and Seeds and in what condition 

 they were that I might the sooner supplied -^ you if any were 

 wrong, short or spoiled of all you wrote for. I shall expect 

 plenty and every thing good from the Garden as I have 

 recommended that last year and this and you have had fresh 

 earth and plenty of dung these two years, and I hope you have 

 not spared labour in opening and refreshing the earth both for 

 the fruit trees and under crops. I know we save labour in 

 opening and working of our Ground both in Gardens and 

 Fields. The folly of such thrift generally appears in our 

 Crops and in the foulness of our Ground. The first might be 

 mended and the other cured, by which we should be well paid 

 for a little labour. This would be found could we be prevailed 

 upon to try it right and to purpose. But one small ingredient 

 being left out in a Receipt disappoints the success to be 



Sooner (have) supplied. 



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