Garden-Kalendar for the Year 1757 



Jan. I st Planted a row of Tulips, & Ranunculus's, 

 given me by my Broth r - Thomas, in the Border in the 

 New-Garden next the street. Dug-out the soil, & filled the 

 trench with earth well-mixed with lime-rubbish. 



3. Planted the Fir-Quincunx with five rows of Winsor- 

 beans : dunged the ground, that was very poor, with ten 

 wheel-barrows of very rotten dung. After the beans the 

 ground to be trench'd with Celeri. 



Levelled, & widen'd the Area of y e Melon-Ground ; 

 having made an underground Drain to prevent its being 

 flooded any more. 



4. A most extraordinary dry season for wheeling-out 

 the dung of the old Hot-beds ; & for trenching the ground 

 for Crops. 



On the 2 nd - began a frost, which on y e 3 rd - & 4 th - by 

 means of a strong East wind became very severe, so as to 

 freeze-up all the pools & ponds : the ground, which had 

 been quite drained before by a fortnight's dry weather, 

 look'd white & dusty, & was not the least relaxed or greasy 

 at noon for many days together. On the io th - came a 

 thaw, & a little snow. The Laurustines, & other tender 

 Evergreens began to suffer, a little especially on the severe 

 windy days. Froze-up again, lasted (tho' there were 

 frequent hasty showers) without the frost ever being out 

 of the Ground till Feb. 6 th - Great Quantities of snow fell, 

 which being half melted by the rain made the country 

 slippery to a strange degree. The frost penetrated deep 

 into the ground, & seems to have been the severest since 

 that in 1740. Seems to have done no material damage to 



