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quick lime, tho' plentifully shaken upon them, will not 

 injure the youngest, or tenderest plant. 



April 1 2. Sowed plot of Savoy-seed, very good sort ; & 

 plot of Borecole * red, & green : some Pendulous Amaranth 

 in Annual Bed. Planted quarf- of Hund : of laurels against 

 the street in the new-Garden to thicken y e screen ; & down 

 Baker's-hill, where the turkeys had destroyed them. 



13. Planted some Laurestines down Baker's - Hill, 

 where the Laurels were dead. Constant heavy rains day, 

 & night. 



Six rows of Marrowfats in Turner's Card 11 - This April 

 thro' a most surprizing season for wet, & frost. The 2O th 

 was a vast rain : but on the 26 th it rain'd for 22 Hours 

 without ceasing, & brought on such a vast flood as has 

 seldom been seen ; the meadows round Oxon being entirely 

 cover'd a great depth. 



May i. Received from Broth r - Thomas an Arbutus, 

 common Cypress, Portugal-Laurel, Cluster-pine, Silver-fir, 

 Swedish - Juniper, Evergreen Cytisus, Passion - flower, & 

 some small evergreen Creepers. Fine plahts, & most of 

 them turn'd out of pots & sent down with all their earth 

 about y m - My ten - light Cantaleupe-bed so flooded by 

 those vast rains that all the plants are dead. 



Planted y e evergreens in the basons in the field. 



May 4. Heavy storms of snow, & thunder. 



5. Frost so hard that the dirt carryed. 



6. Broke-up my ten-light Cantaleupe-bed, & work'd it 

 up with five dung-carts more of hot-dung. Sensible heat 

 remaining in the bed, tho' it had been so flooded. Put 

 earth into the boxes, in good dry order. Soft mild 

 shower. 



7:8: 9. Very wet season. 



10. Planted my ten-light melon-bed a second time 

 with Waverley-Cantaleupe, & Romania-melons. Bed in 

 fine order for Heat. 



Planted-out the seedling Cedar of Libanus in a 

 penny-pot. 



1 See antea, p. 219, " Boorcole." [R. B. S.] 



