210 NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE 



29. Sowed a Crop of Carrots, radishes, white Coss, & 

 green Coss lettuce, Parsneps, Beets, leeks, Holy oaks, & 

 Onions. Planted-out some Laburnums raised in 1752, from 

 seeds in Baker's Hill. 



April 4. Made a very large hot-bed for my two-light 

 melon-frame. The Dung very warm. 



5. Made four rows of the broken rows of early beans. 

 Laid fine earth 6 inches thick between the Hot-bet [sic] ; 

 sowed some radishes, & a crop of Celeri. 



8. Laid -on the earth on the great melon-bed. Bed 

 heats finely : wonderful fine weather. 



9. Sowed a large Crop of marrow-fats in Turner's. 



10. Planted three large, forward Cucumber - plants, 

 given me by Mr. Johnson, in my first Hot-bed. 



Planted six Laurels near the pitching in the old orchard ; 

 two Larches on the bank near the Ewel-gate ; a Scotch, 

 & silver fir in the upper end of the Ewel-close. 



u. Made a melon-hot-bed with 14 barrows of dung, 

 for my smallest frame covered with a paper-light. Made 

 my ridge for three hand-glasses. 



12. Transplanted three of my forwardest melon plants 

 (four leaves each) into each of the lights of my great frame : 

 one to be taken away from each hill, when they are settled. 

 Mem: the earth would not turn-out, till the pots were 

 broken. 1 The bed in a fine heat. The plants had fill'd the 

 pots with their fibres. Made a slight hot-bed in the new 

 garden with 8 barrows of dung for hardy annuals : put on 

 my old frame, & old oil'd paper. Sowed a Crop of Carrots 

 & lettuce in the shady quarter of the new garden ; 5 pots 

 of sun-flowers, & Nasturtiums in the borders of D- ; six 

 rows of broad beans in the field gardens. 



16. Planted-out some cucumber-plants (sadly wire- 

 drawn) under two of the Hand-glasses ; & sowed six of 

 M r - Burrough's melon-seeds under an other ; the ridge in 

 a fine heat. The early melon-plants from M r - Burrough's 

 seeds. Those to be put in the paper-frame from M r - Missen's. 



1 He evidently forgot to wet the inside of the pots before using them. 

 [H. M.] 



