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rotten runners ; Qua^: if occasioned by those two waterings 

 all over their leaves in that scorching weather in May. 



The leaves of the Armenian Cantaloupes have a much 

 blacker aspect than those of the Waverley. 



June 14. Planted the empty basons in the field, and two 

 borders in the new Garden with annuals, French and Afr: 

 Marrygolds, Sunflowers, Nasturtiums, pendulous Amaranths, 

 and China Asters. Hot growing weather; vast showers about. 



15. Planted 150 Savoys from Alton. 



16: 18. Lined out the Cantaloupe bed with loam very deep 

 quite down to y e Ground on each side : the fibres may now, if 

 they please, extend themselves 16 feet. The plants look in a 

 most thriving way, and are loaded with fruit ; but they hold 

 off from setting strangely : no one set yet. Cut off a great 

 branch of one of the Waverley Cantaloupes that was quite 

 rotten. 



19. Planted out crop of leeks and some late Coss Lettuce. 

 Furious hot summer weather. 



20. To be planted pint of french beans, and an early row of 

 Celeri to be trenched. All the former crops of french beans 

 like to come to nothing. 



23. Called in upon Mr. Miller at Chelsea, and found that 

 he had 18 lights of Armenian Melons in excellent order. 

 There were about two brace and half of fruit to a light, full- 

 grown, and very rough and black. He pushes his lights, it 

 seems, quite down in dry weather: and says the defect of 

 male bloom is owing to the seeds being of some age. 



30. On my return from Sunbury I found my Cantaloupes 

 in very bad plight indeed : two of the Waverley plants were 

 quite rotten, and corrupted at the stem, and one of the 

 Armenians, the day after I came home, withered away, tho' 

 perfectly sound ; and dyed as if eaten off at the root ; tho* 

 upon search no grub could be found in the mould. And what 

 is stranger, no one fruit was set upon any plant, tho' hun- 

 dreds have dropp'd away. There certainly is a want of male 

 bloom in the Armenians to a degree : but then the Waverley 

 plants over abounded and yet cast all their fruit. 



I found a vast crop of pease thro' the dripping season; and 

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