A GARDEN KALENDAR 237 



My Polyanths, which I raised from seed given me by 

 M rs Snooke, & sowed last spring, make now a most 

 beautiful appearance ; many of them have large upright 

 stems, producing many flowers, which are large, beautifully 

 striped, & open flat. Mark'd the finest blowers with sticks, 

 intending to save seed from them. 



April 26. Turned-out five pots of Waverley Yellow- 

 seed Cantaleupes, & one Selborn D- into my six great 

 Lights : and only one pot of John Bosworth's Dutch Canta- 

 leupe into the middle of my two light frame. All the pots 

 were turned-out well except the Dutch-Cantaleupe, whose 

 earth stuck to the pot, & pull'd-off many of its fibres. 

 Sowed Crop of Borecole green & red ; & vast plot of Holy- 

 oak-seed : & a row of tree-mallow seed. 



April 26. Sowed four rows of dwarf white Battersea- 

 kidney-beans in the New Garden. An handful of beans 

 left out of one pint. Ground in good dry order. 



Supplyed the two basons of Cucumbers that were burnt, 

 with some white, & green prickly plants. 



May 9. Made an Hot-bed for my melon-paper house 

 with four loads of dung joined-on to the former bed. 



Made hot-bed for seedling-annuals with three barrows 

 of weeds, & four of dung. 



Early Cucumbers show nothing but male bloom. 

 Planted two rows of large white Dutch-Kidney-beans. 

 10. Sowed Annual-bed with African & French Marri- 

 golds, Marvel of Peru, Gourds, & double China-Asters. 

 Sowed some rows of Sunflower-seed. 

 Plants shew some few Cucumbers. 



Some of the melon-plants decaying in their seedling- 

 leaves : turned-out some more pots into the basons. Shall 

 save but one Waverly melon-plant ; all the rest Selborn 

 seed, except the two White-seeded plants under the paper, 

 that are Waverly. 



May 12. Sowed an Hand-glass on y e cold ground with 

 several sorts of white Dutch-Cucumbers ; & a few green 

 prickly Cucum rs - Sowed a late Crop of green, & white 

 Coss-lettuce. Prick' d-out some rows of Capuchin-Lettuce. 



