Garden-Kalendar for ye Year 1756 



Jan. 23. Made an hot-bed on the dung-hill in the Yard, 

 with M r - Johnson's frame, for white-mustard, & cress. 



30. Earthed-up the backward Celeri. 



31. Planted two Cuttings from the weeping-willow in 

 the New-Garden. 



Feb. 14. Planted 200 of Cabbage-plants in y e field- 

 Garden. 



14. Made a Melonry in the Field-Garden 45 feet long, 

 & lin'd it at y e back very warm, & secure with some 

 damaged rushes of John Berriman's : lin'd y e two side- 

 screens in the same manner ; & in particular that towards 

 y e Cucumber-bed, that it's Farina might not mix with y e 

 melons. 



Mem. The winter-Coss-lettuce, which stood very safe 

 under frames during the severe dry frosty winter 1754 : 

 are this winter rotted by dampness, tho' there have been 

 no frosts at all to touch y" 1 - 



Feb. 1 8. Snowed very hard from morning to night : 

 by y e evening the snow lay 14 inches deep on plain 

 Ground ; & lodged so heavy on the Hedges that it broke 

 y m down in several places ; & weighed all the shrubs flat 

 to the Ground. Went off with a gentle thaw without any 

 rain. 



23. Cast eight of our little Cart-loads of hot dung in 

 the field-garden for y e melon seed-bed. 



24. Sowed quarf- of a pound of spinage in the field- 

 garden. 



25. Planted six rows of large Winsor-beans in y e field- 

 Garden : six rows of marrow-fat-pease in Turner's Garden. 



