A GARDEN KALENDAR 247 



Ground very dry ; little rain having fallen for these 

 three weeks past. 



Jan. 30. Mercury continues at the same height. Same 

 still, gloomy weather. 



Sent for 42 bushels of peat-ashes from the forest-side. 

 Sowed fifteen bushels on the broad-mead, & 15 bushels 

 on the Ewel-slip. Ashes very dry, & curiously preserved. 

 Laid-up the remainder in ash-house. Brought at the same 

 time an old sand-stone-roller from M r - Bridger's at Oak- 

 hanger. It was, it seems, formerly the property of M r - Xmas 

 of Oakhanger, Father to Sarah Xmas ; & may probably 

 have been made these 60 or 70 Years ; & yet is very little 

 damaged by age or weather. 1 



31. The Narcissus's, planted in sand in common blow- 

 ing-glasses, have crammed the glasses so full, that tho' they 

 budded very strongly at first, they have hardly advanced at 

 all since in height for many weeks : one of y e Glasses, that 

 was crack'd by accident, is quite split to pieces by the large, 

 strong roots. 



Took it out of the Glass, & planted it in a pint-mug 

 fill'd with sand. 



Feb. 2. Sowed about 20 more cucumber-seeds; the 

 third sowing : the first & second come-up very well, & 

 begin to some greenness. 



4. Lined one end of the hot-bed with one Barrow of 

 Dung. Bed declines in heat. Sowed two samples of 

 white - clover - seed from different Seeds -men, in the 

 Hot-bed. 



6. Backed the hot-bed with six barrows of hot-dung. 



Took away the suckers from the filberts against 

 Parsons's ; & planted some of them where they have failed 

 against Turner's. 



6:7: 8. Trimm'd, & tacked y e vines (as much as old 

 neglected trees could be reduced the first Year) according 

 to Hitt's directions. Covered many parts of the wall very 

 well with horizontal wood. Left the disbudding till the 



1 This would be made of what we call "Headley Stone." [H. M.] 



