TO HIS GARDENER 97 



after Breakfast that as much may be done while I am with you 

 as possible. You know there are some Oaks north of the Old 

 Church Yard to be supplied. 



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Charles, — See the Men do the fence at the Meadow com- No date. 

 pletely right so as no place can let cattle out. Leave the East 

 end of it till May as the Water will be too cold for men to 

 work it now. Get all the Grass seed you possibly can and sow 

 it upon the dry spots of it where you upon going over and 

 looking at it shall find it thinest. Get Harrows to go over it. 

 I hope by this gets to you the Nurseries are pretty near set to 

 rights. Plant the firs in the Wood and transplant in Nursery 

 what you thin of the firs. When this is done go round all the 

 plantations of this year both at the Town the Wood and 

 others and fix the trees. 



Let me have a succession of Salading Pease, Beans, 

 Cucumbers etc. If the Moles have been at work again get 

 Alex''. Cokb: and his men to help to spread their hills. 



If the great Oak shall want to be cut down which stands 

 near the Holly, do it as Mr. Rowe shall direct. Dispatch 

 business. Do what you go about thoroughly right and suffer 

 none to trifle. Write fully to me once a Week at least how 

 every thing advances. 



As the Workmen lately employed at the Coal have made a 

 Wrangling about their Accounts and have blamed Mills as if 

 he had done them injustice, go you with him to be witness to 

 the accounts being adjusted every Saturday night; tho' he 

 should not have money to pay all yet the adjusting of them 

 every Saturday will save him from their tongues espicially if 

 before a Witness. I don't desire any of them being wronged 

 but let him and you take care I am not imposed upon. Let 

 every one put a mark ^ or sign his Acct. what he receives and 

 what shall be resting. This will prevent disputes. If I have 



^ The colliers of that time were the most illiterate of the labouring class. 

 They were, till 1799, serfs bound to the soil, but here they seem to have been a 

 source of troubles that are still with the employer. 



