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larkspur-seed ; & bush'd them well. Sunk a wine-Hog's 

 head in the field-garden for a well. 



5. Sowed some Asparagus-seed to mend the beds that 

 are decaying. 



Very dry weather, & severe frost. 



8. The seedling- melon -bed, tho' made so strong, 

 would not come to any Heat : so I cut away the bed 

 sloping-in on every side, & lined it very thick with four 

 little cart-loads of dung just fresh from the stable. 



March n. Bed begins to heat very well : prick'd the 

 cucumbers from under the Hand-glass into it. Melons 

 not yet come up. Lost about a week in the forwarding 

 the Cucumber-plants by the bed's not heating. Sowed the 

 Hand-glasses in the Yard with more Cress, & Mustard. 

 That little bed keeps its heat well still. 



14. Sowed 22 Mazagan-beans, all worm-eaten to try 

 if the rest will be fit to plant next Year. 



Tyed the melon-bed, that crack'd & was like to bulge- 

 out, with a strong cord, that seems to secure it. 



Made a melon paper-House 8 feet long, & 5 feet wide : 

 to be covered with the best writing-paper. 



Planted two seedling white-Elders in the little mead. 



17. Supplyed the basons where the shrubs were dead, 

 with new ones. 



Melon-plants come-up very fast. 



1 8. Planted a weeping- willow, a fine plant, one Year 

 from a Cutting, in one of the basons in the field : planted 

 a black- Virginian-Mountain-Elder in the little mead. 



19. Sowed 20 more Yellow Cantaleupe-seeds, Selborn 

 1755 : to supply the room of any plants that may fail. 



Sowed 9 basons in the border next Parson's Yard with 

 double Larkspurs. Some of the forward Cucumber-plants 

 show a rough leaf. 



21. Sowed Crop of Carrots, White & Green Coss- 

 Lettuce, & common radishes in Turner's Garden. Headed- 

 down the limes in the Butcher's Yard ; & took several 

 Cuttings from the Weeping-willow & planted them in the 

 Nursery. 



