352 GILBERT WHITE'S GARDEN KALENDAR. 



June 3. Continued heavy showers all night and all day. 

 The ground is now well soaked. 



5. Lined out the Cantaloupe bed with twelve dung-carts 

 of hot dung. The bed is now 12 feet broad and 40 feet 

 long. Continued showers all day ; so that no loam could be 

 laid on y e bed but what was already housed in the earth- 

 houses. The fig tree has plenty of fruit which grows apace. 



Such a violent rain and wind all the evening and most part 

 of the night that they broke down and displaced the pease 

 and beans and most of the flowers ; and tore the hedges and 

 trees and beat down several of the shrubs. 



6. Continual rain all day. The lining of the Cantaleupe 

 bed, which is not yet earthed, in danger of losing its Heat by 

 being so thoro'ly soaked. 



8. Earthed the lining of the Cantaleupe bed, and raised the 

 frames to the top of the earth. The Waverley plants had 

 filled the frames with their roots ; the fibres of y e Armenian 

 sort had not extended themselves so much. 



Sowed a pint more of dwarf kidney-beans in the room of 

 those that were devoured by snails. Fine summer weather. 

 Turned down the three forward basons of cucumbers from out 

 their hand-glasses. 



9. Gathered first beans, a large mess. 



10. Fine soft weather for some days ; now a soaking 

 rain. 



11. Finished off the borders in the new garden, by cleansing 

 raising and laying a good coat of fine peat dust, finely sifted 

 in order to make them light and dry. Sowed the first plot of 

 Endive, and a plot of Lettuce, green and white Coss. 



12. In the evening began a vast storm which continued all 

 the night, and tore and destroyed the things in the Garden 

 worse than the former : it broke down vast boughs in the 

 Hedges, and had like to have overturned the Limes in the 

 Butcher's yard. If the Annuals had been planted out, they 

 must have been quite whipped to pieces. The hedges look 

 bare and unsightly by being lashed and banged by the wind ; 

 and the ground is strawed with leaves. 



13. The middle Waverley Cantaleupe has some decayed 



