GILBERT WHITE'S GARDEN KALENDAR. 349 



keeps the nightingales very silent. No vegetation seems to 

 stir at present. Disbudded some of the vines. The buds are 

 about an inch long. 



May 3 rd . Made second annual bed with six barrows of grass 

 and weeds only ; no dung. 



Planted out the five hand-glasses with the great white 

 Dutch Cucumbers 4 plants in a hill. The plants are pretty 

 much drawn. This evening the vehement east wind seems to 

 be abated ; and the air is soft and cloudy. Ground bound 

 like a stone. 



4. Sowed a pint, four rows, of small dwarf white kidney- 

 beans in the lower field-garden. 



Earthed the Cantaleupes * the third time : found all the 

 plants in a very flourishing way, and the fibres extended 

 to the very outsides of the hills. Cut away the plants to one 

 in some of the hills; and left two in some, stopping down the 

 worst plant very short towards the bottom of the runners, for 

 experiment's sake, to see what the small wood about the stems 

 will do. Some of the plants offer for male bloom. 



Saw the first Redstart and Cherrysucker f. Sowed about 

 two doz. of the large white Dutch cucumber seeds for y e 

 latter hand-glasses: the first sowing got full tall and big. 



Delicate soft rain all the afternoon and all night, which 

 soaked the ground well to the roots of all vegetables. 



5. Fine growing weather. 



Several of the Cantaleupes have male blossoms fully ex- 

 panded. 



7. Disbudded all the vines according to Hitt. Almost 

 every shoot shows bloom. Housed 21 barrows of the laj-t 

 prepared Cantaleupe loam : by means of the late rains it is in 

 the most delicate order and crumbles into dust. 



9. Berriman sowed Baker's Hill with Barley, and after it 

 8 pounds of clover, and two bushels of white seed or Rye 

 Grass. The ground cold and cloddy, and pretty full of daisey 

 roots and grass, and not in very fine order. Added since 

 8 p d8 more of clover. 



* [See the Letter from Philip Miller. T. B.] 

 t [Spotted fly-catcher.] 



