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2. Sowed two or three white Cantaleupe-seeds in each 

 of the pots that contain the white Cantaleupe plants. 



Sowed a good Quantity of the old green Cucumber 

 seeds ; & D- of Middleton's White D- in the one-light 

 Cucumber-frame. 



The former sowing of Middleton's white Cucumber- 

 seed, & of the new green D- from London came-up 

 wretchedly. 



Sad wet, cold weather, & constant high winds (some of 

 them very terrible, & mischievous ones) for three weeks past. 



New Cucumber-bed heats well ; & Cucumber, & melon- 

 plants have struck-root already. 



April 5. Sowed a Crop of leeks, beets, parsneps, turnep- 

 radishes, & onions. 



Unusual Hot weather this week : during which, John, 

 who was but a very young Gardener, scorch'd up, & suff o- , 

 cated all his forward Cucumbers : & drawed his melon- 

 plants, but has not spoiled them. 



21. Snowed very hard for sixteen hours : the greatest 

 snow that has fallen this Year ; & must have been a foot 

 deep had it not for the greatest part melted as it fell. 

 Went away without any frost, & seems to have done no 

 damage. 



April 23 d - Made the melon-bed for the six large lights, 

 & two of the small ones, with 18 dung-carts of dung, just 

 30 feet long, & about two & half high, & all above ground. 



25. Dressed the border against Parsons's & sowed in it, 

 Sunflowers, Candy tuft, Venetian-poppy, & Venus looking 

 glass : sowed large plot of savoy seed, plot of Sweet 

 William-seed, & some rows of sorrel, & parsley. Sowed 

 some Celeri on the melon-bed between the frames ; & some 

 white-seeded Cantaleupes for the paper-House in one of 

 the large lights. 



On examination it appeared that the earth in the 

 Cucumber-bed was burnt by the fierce heat of the bed : 

 dug it out of the basons, & put in fresh : One bason of the 

 early Cucumbers will recover, the other two must be new- 

 planted. 



