Garden-Kalendar for the Year 1754 



An uncommon severe winter : most things in the Garden 

 destroyed. 



Feb., latter end. A crop of early pease in Turner's : 

 & crop of broad beans in the field-Garden. 



March 5. Made a very deep hot-bed : half the dung 

 cast before hand, & half from dunghill at once. The 

 season uncommonly dry and fine. Sowed a large Crop 

 of spinage in the field-Garden to supply the general de- 

 struction made by the severe winter. A wonderful large, 

 useful Crop. 



6. Sowed larkspurs, painted ladies, & Columbines in 

 the borders in the new Garden : & a Crop of Parsley. 



12. Sowed two pots of melons in the Hot-bed, & one 

 pot of Cockscombs : backed up the bed to the top of the 

 frame, the frost being very extreme. 



March 19. Sowed two pots of M r - Missen's melon- 

 seeds ; one pot of early Cucumber-seeds ; one pot of 

 Gibson's Capsicums. The bed in fine order, but the frost 

 very severe. One pot more of Cockscombs. The first- 

 sown Cockscombs appear'd about the 21, came up very 

 thick : the first-sown melons about 23, very strong. Raised 

 the pots as soon as they appeared. 



26. Sowed a row of Bosworth's early melons in the 

 hot bed without pots : a row of my own Cucum : seed : 

 & two rows of Bosworth's white-Dutch Cucum : seed, 1 

 I never sowed before in England. 



29. Cast eleven cart-loads of Hot dung in the field- 

 garden, for melon-beds, & cucumr. ridges. 



1 In the MS. the Kalendar is here interlined "never came up." [R. B. S.] 



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