228 NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE 



Four lights of Cantaleupes, & six of Romagna-Melons. 



May ii. Violent rain, snow, & hail : Ice in the night. 



12. Made a ridge for five hand glasses, with four dung- 

 carts of dung. 



Received from Kensington one Holly-leav'd Oak, one 

 Olive-leav'd D-', one red Cedar of Virginia, one White D-- 

 one Spanish-Evergreen Creeper, one Balm of Gilead-fir, 

 two Weymouth-pines, one Acacia-leaved-Cypress. All 

 nicely pack'd with a deal of earth about their roots ; & 

 about a foot & half high. 



From Williamson Nursery-man at Kensington. 



14. Sowed some common green, & white- Dutch 

 Cucumber-seeds under an Hand-Glass. 



Set up my first Oil-Jar Vase at the bottom of the Ewel- 

 Close with a pannel only in front : Mount, pedestal, & Vase 

 nine feet high. Dripping season still. 



May 15. No one Day so much as spring-like before : 

 now absolute Summer. 



Sowed a crop of Green-Coss-lettuce among the New- 

 planted Artichokes. 



Planted three of the Hand-glasses with Cucumber plants, 

 three plants in a Glass. 



May 17. Pricked-out the seedling Weymouth, & 

 Cluster-pines in the New-Garden. 



Prick'd-out a plot of Celeri in Turner's. 



18. Planted 300 & quart 1 "- of Cabbage-plants in the 

 field-Garden. Very hot sunshine with a cold East-wind. 



19. Set-up my second Oil-jar vase at the top of the 

 broad walk, with a face to the cross-walk. Mount, pedestal, 

 & Jar some inches above nine feet high. 



19. Pinch'd my melons to make them throw-out 

 runners : the melons for want of having been in pots, a 

 long while in taking to y e Ground. 



20. Planted six rows of large white Dutch Kidney- 

 beans as long as y e Spinage will permit. 



May 24. Earth'd-up the melon-hillocks for y e first 

 time with Dorton-mould. Mould in fine order. 



28. Bright sunshine, & smart frosts for this fortnight 



