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vegetation ; but has made the Ground very light, & 

 mellow. 



Feb. 10. Sowed half a pound of spinage in the field- 

 Garden, with some Browndutch, & Capuchin-lettuce ; 

 some common, & white-turnep Radishes. 



ii. Several of the Hyancinths are tall, & just ready 

 to blow. 



12. Planted six rows of Hotspur-pease, & two of 

 Marrowfats in the field-Garden. 



Summer-like weather : the ground by means of the 

 frost perfectly mellow. Sowed a crop of parsely in the 

 New Garden. 



17. Made an Hot-bed in the Yard with 16 wheel- 

 barrows of dung, only to raise y e Cucumber-plants, & 

 a little Cress, & white-mustard. To be taken away, & 

 work'd up in a future Bed. 



Feb. 1 8. One of the Sunbury Jacinths (y e only one, 

 not decay'd) in full bloom. Those from M r> Budd drawn- 

 up very tall but not blown. 



19. Sowed some early Cucumber-seeds under one of 

 the Hand-glasses. 



21. Planted 100 of Cabbages in Turner's : sowed hand- 

 glasses in the Yard with Cress, & white-mustard. 



24. Carryed eight of our little Cart-loads of dung into 

 the field-garden for a seedling melon-bed. 



28. Made a very stout hot-bed above three feet thick 

 for the melon-seeds, & to forward the Cucumber-plants, 

 with 8 Cart-loads of dung. Saved about two barrows of 

 dung, & made a Celeri-bed for one Handglass. 



March 2. Sowed the new Hot-bed with Yellow-seeded 

 Waverley Cantaleupe 1752 : & White-seeded Waverly D- 

 1752 & 1754 ' with Dutch Cantaleupe (never sowed in 

 England) 1754 : & with John Bosworth's Zatta-melon from 

 Florence 1754. Sowed also a few early Cucumber-seeds 

 for fear the plants should fail. 



Sowed a small Hand-glass Hot-bed with Celeri, & Cele- 

 riac. Dressed Rasp-bed : & hoed beans : but a thin Crop. 



4. Sowed 14 basons in the field with double upright 



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