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bed with French & African - Marrigolds ; Double-China- 

 asters, & single D- & white Asters ; pendulous-Amaranths, 

 & some Gourds for Dame Tyrrel. 1 



9. Saw two swallows : one was seen in y e village on 

 the 3 rd - 



ii. Sowed in a seedling-bed in the field-Garden Sun- 

 flowers, French-wall-flower, Columbine, Sweet-Williams, 

 Double-China-pinks under two hand-glasses, Everlasting- 

 pea, French Honeysuckle, Evergeen-Cytisus, & Holyoaks : 

 in the new-Garden in the broad-border, & against the 

 apple tree, painted-Lady-pease ; Nigella romana ; in the 

 Kitchen part half ounce more of Leek-seed, & small plot 

 of red beet. 



April 12. Sowed third Crop of marrow-fat pease, one 

 row in Turner's, two rows in old field-garden, two rows in 

 new field-garden. 



13. Worked-up a nine-light melon-bed with 18 good 

 dung-carts of fresh, hot dung, & 80 bushels of fresh tan. 

 I had made this bed just a week before, only two days 

 after the materials were brought in ; but finding it to heat 

 violently I ordered it to be pulled to pieces, & cast back 

 again, that it might spend its violent Heat. The bed is 36 

 feet long, six feet & an half wide, & about two feet & half 

 high. The tan makes a covering all over of about 8 inches 

 thick. In the middle of each light I laid a patch of rotten 

 dung about two inches thick, which I beat-down hard to 

 keep-off the fierce heat from the hillocks of earth. 



Fierce east- wind ; & no rain for near three weeks : the 

 ground, & roads unusually dry. 



April 15. Raked-over the Asparagus-beds the second 

 time : stuck the first Crop of Marrow-fat pease : filled the 

 box that contains the leaden-pipe with hot dung the second 

 time. 



Cutting winds all day, & thick ice every night. 



16. So fierce a frost with a South-wind as to freeze 

 the steam which run out in water from between the panes 



1 This is the Dame "Terry" mentioned in Buckland's edition, vol. ii. p. 7, 

 who was said to be so well acquainted with Gilbert White. [H. M.] 



