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3 P** 5 oun : they were perfectly dry, & high-flavour'd, 

 notwithstanding the weather had been shady, & cool for 

 three weeks ; & uncommonly wet and stormy for the last 

 week. 



2. Made a large Musroom-bed, eight feet long ; used 

 eleven Barrows of hot dung with no layers of earth inter- 

 mix'd. 



15. Planted the mushroom spawn brought from 

 Dean on the new made bed, it was moderately warm, the 

 larger lumps were set on the ridge, the smaller earth near 

 the bottom. N.B. I planted the S E side & Thomas 

 the N W. 1 



19. Tyed-up more Endive : those tyed-up before not 

 well blanch'd, for want of being ty'd with double yarn, & 

 in two places. The new Musroom-bed heats gently. The 

 double China-asters make a fine show. Mem. The green- 

 Endive, by being so much longer, tyes-up, & blanches 

 much better than the white. 



Septemb r - 23. Put the Acacias in their winter-quarters 

 in a frame under the Hedge of the melon-ground : planted 

 some lettuce to stand the winter in the same frame, & along 

 the border : placed an old frame for a Quart'- of a Hund : 

 of Cauliflower-plants : put the two boxes of the seedling- 

 pines under the sunny-hedge. Sowed a Crop of persicaria- 

 seed, & green Coss-lettuce on the same border. Sowed a 

 Crop of Belvedere on the same border. 



Octob r - 6. Sent the Cauliflowers from Dene. 



3O th - Planted two basons in the field with Canterbury- 

 bells. Planted a Nursery of some Scorpion-sena, & Spiraea- 

 suckers in the New-Garden. 



N<nf- 2. Planted ten rows of Mazagan-beans (never 

 planted in England) in the field-garden. 



Planted four Pyramidal-Campanulas in four large pots, 

 & plunged them in the Border under the melon-screen. 



Planted 30 full-grown perennial-sunflower-roots in the 



1 This would seem to have been an experiment, and the result would doubt- 

 less be watched with interest, to see who succeeded best in the planting, himself 

 or Thomas ! [H. M.] 



