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The Armenian plants in general have small leaves and 

 vines : and one in particular so fine and wire-drawn that one 

 would imagine it would never be ^able to carry any fruit to 

 perfection. The rest are healthy, and are disposed very regu- 

 larly in their frames, and are full of fruit. No fruit set yet. 



Took off the glasses from the early cucumbers and annuals 

 to give them y e benefit of the showers. 



May 28: "29. Housed four loads of peat in most excellent 

 dry order. The uncommon dryness occasions some waste by 

 making the bats crumble. 



Gathered two scarlet strawberries. The early beans have 

 large pods. The early pease are well blown. 



30. The rain on the 29 th very heavy for some hours ; so as 

 to make the cart way run. Raked all the rough-dug ground 

 that was, 'till moistened, like an heap of stones. Pricked a 

 pot of Celeri. 



31. Sowed a pint more of large French beans. The first 

 sowing strangely devoured by snails. Tull gathered a bowl 

 dish three quarters full in one evening : and still the plants 

 w r ere almost covered with them the next. Cold winds and 

 frosty nights since the rain. 



Hoed the strawberries that were planted last autumn, and 

 filled up the vast cracks in their beds. At least half the 

 autumn planted pine-strawberries are dead. The scarlet will 

 have some fruit; and so will the few plants of Collison's. 

 TKe Nova-Scotia will not bear this year. Stringed the bear- 

 ing pine-strawberries, which are full of bloom. The Autumn 

 sown and Capuchin and brown-Lettuce, now in high per- 

 fection. I have a very poor crop of Coss lettuce this spring. 



June 1. Distant thunder and fine showers all the evening 

 and part of the night. 



May 31: June 1 st : 2 nd . John tacked all the vines for the 

 first time this year according to Hitt. Those vines that were 

 dressed in that method last year, are now full of fruit; those 

 that have been trained only this year have little or none. 

 Frequent good showers. The ground is now finely soaked. 

 Continued picking vast quantities of slugs from the french 

 beans, which are in a poor way. 



