230 NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE 



Aug**- 2. Cut first Melon, a Romania : very early, con- 

 sidering the first bed was destroy'd. 



3. Cut brace & half more of Romania : turn'd, & tiled 

 the rest, which was much wanting. Cut 70 Cucumbers. 



Aug: 4. Trenched-out 8 rows of Celeri : planted some 

 of the Borders in the New-Garden with Polyanths of my 

 own raising. 



Cut four brace & half of Melons this week. 



15. Had cut eleven brace of Romania-Melons : one 

 from the plant that was put a seed into one of the great 

 frames on May y e 10. 



18. Planted six pots with Cuttings of Geraniums. 

 Mushroom-bed bears pretty well at one end. 



Aug: 1 8. Sowed Crop of Turneps in the Quincunx, & 

 among the Savoys. 



21. Sowed half pound of spinage ; & with it turnep- 

 radish seed ; & brown dutch, & green-Capuchin-Lettuce 

 to stand the Winter. 



22. Cut the first Cantaleupe, a very small one : it was 

 almost cleft in two : was high-flavour'd, & vastly superior 

 to any of the Romanias. This melon set the first of any ; 

 & was full 8 weeks in ripening. The plant on which this 

 grew was one of the first crop, the only one that survived ; 

 & was moved in a careless manner back into the seedling- 

 bed ; & brought back again when the bed was new- 

 worked-up. 



Constant heavy rains for a week : the wheat that is 

 down begins to grow. 



24. Cut second Cantaleupe, the largest in y e Boxes ; 

 weigh'd 3 p ds - 7 oun : sent it to London to Broth r - Tom. 

 Turn'd colour before it began to smell, which is unusual. 



Aug: 25. Planted-out Holy-oaks in the New-Garden 

 next the street ; & among the limes in the Butcher's 

 Yard. 



26 : 27 : 28. Cut a brace & half of M r - Hunter's Canta- 

 leupes : a brace were not much embossed on their Rind, 

 & not so high flavoured as might be expected : the other 

 was very rough, very firm fleshed, high flavoured, & very 



