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27. Planted a row, and a half more of broad-beans. 



28. Made the Melon-seedling-Hot-bed with the whole 

 eight loads of dung except a little for the Celeri. Weather 

 very fine, & the Ground in good dry order. 



Made a Celeri-Hot-bed for an hand glass, & sowed the 

 Celeri-seed. 



Planted some lilac-suckers from Bradley in Turner's ; 

 & some Cuttings of the parsley, & Mountain-Elder. Planted 

 a large lilac-sucker in a field-bason. 



March i. Sowed ten pots of M r - Hunter's red-seeded 

 Cantaleupes 1752 : & two pots of M r - Hunter's white-seeded 

 Cantaleupes 1754. 



Sowed a pot of early prickly Cucumbers. Fine weather ; 

 & bed heats well. 



Sprinkled the bed with quick-lime to kill the small 

 snails, & grubs. 



2. Raised the fence of the Cucumber-Ground equal 

 with that of the Melon-Ground, & lined it with pease- 

 haulm : so the two fences screen the whole North-end of 

 the field-garden the length of 70 feet. 



6. Removed the two Larches from the Ewel-Close 

 where one had been damaged by the Horses, into the 

 Basons in Baker's Hill. Cucumbers began to appear. 



Removed one of the Laburnums into a gap in the 

 orchard-hedge. Planted some layers of Jasmine in Turner's 

 Garden. 



7. The Melon-plants began to appear. 



8. Sowed 12 basons in the field with double Larkspur- 

 seed. One ounce will sow 8 basons very thick. 



March 8. Sprinkled more quick-lime round the young 

 Melon-plants. 



9. Sowed a box of Polyanth-seed : cleansed the moss 

 & filth from off the Acacia-pots, & sifted on a little fine 

 earth. Sifted a little fine earth over the seedling Cedars 

 of Lib : & pines in the boxes. 



10. Sowed a Crop of Carrots in the New-Garden, & 

 mixed with it some radishes, onions, & coss-lettuce both 

 green, & white. 



