A GARDEN KALENDAR 235 



March 22. Sowed the Clover in the wheat ; & mixed 

 with it the white-Dutch-Clover that had been in the House 

 two or three Years. 



Sowed 40 of the Murdoch Myddleton's white-Cucumber- 

 seeds in the seedling-bed. Bed heats very well. 



23. Raked, & weeded the Asparagus-beds. 



24. Sowed 20 seeds of prickly Cucumbers just come 

 from London. 



26. Cast six loads (dung-carts) of hot dung in the field- 

 garden for the cucumber-bed. Planted Quart 1 "- of Hund : 

 of Cauliflowers in a well-dung'd plot in the field-Garden : 

 from Preedy at Farnham. 



March 28. Made a very stout Cucumber-bed five feet 

 wide, two feet & half deep, & thirteen feet long for three 

 lights, with the six loads of Dung : cut very deep holes 

 in the middle of each light, & rais'd a hillock of fine earth 

 to receive the plants : cut also a trench at the back of the 

 frames, & plunged 12 pots to the brims to receive the 

 melon-plants. 



Sowed nine more basons of double-upright Larkspurs 

 in the border in the new-Garden against the street. 



31. Planted the plants of Cucumbers in the new bed, 

 three in an Hole : they show each four leaves ; but have 

 not grown much for some days past. 



Bed gives a very strong Heat. 



Planted a Quart of marrot-fat-pease in three rows in 

 the field-Garden. 



April i. Planted-out twelve pots of melons : five with 

 yellow-seeded Cantaleupe plants, old seed from Waverley, 

 with one D- new seed of my own saving in the same pot : 

 three with new Yellow D- three with White-seeded Canta- 

 leupes, old seed from Waverley : & one pot with Dutch- 

 Cantaleupe from Holland, never sowed in England. Left 

 six Selborn Cantaleupes, & two Zatta-plants in the seedling 

 bed. 



Mem. To soak the earth well beforehand with water, 

 or else the fine earth is very apt to crumble away, & leave 

 the roots naked in moving. 



