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very great. Grass & lent-corn must suffer unless rain comes 

 soon. Apple-trees finely blown. Bosworth's Cucumbers 

 come-on well under the Hand-glasses. 



17. Widened-out the Cucumber-bed four feet with the 

 dung of the seedling-bed ; & laid-on a thick covering of 

 earth. 



Prick'd-out a good plot of Celeriac. Vines trained 

 according to Hit full of Bloom. 



20. Sowed a Quart, four rows, of large white kidney- 

 beans in the field-Garden : watered them well beforehand. 

 Earthed the melons, & watered them stoutly : trod the 

 earth round the stems down very hard to keep-out the 

 heat. Planted four Hand glasses in the cold ground with 

 M r - Bosworth's large white Cucumber-plants raised in the 

 annual-bed. Very hot, dry weather. Sowed some Cucum- 

 ber-seeds under a hand-glass. 



May 22. Prick'd-out a plot of Celeri ; sowed a Crop of 

 Coss-lettuce green & white. 



24. Made a melon-bed for four Hills with six loads of 

 dung in front of the large bed : it is five feet wide, and 

 seventeen long. 



25. Turned-out a pot of Selborn Cantaleupes into each 

 Hill, & covered them with Hand-glasses. Intend to cover 

 the plants, when they spread, with the two two-light frames. 

 Violent hot weather : no rain for some weeks. The ground 

 burnt, & cracked to an unusual degree. Things in both 

 fields, & Gardens suffer greatly. The fierce heat has lately 

 damaged both melons, & Cucumbers, notwithstanding 

 constant shading, & unusual watering. 



May 26. Planted 6 basons in the field with Indian- 

 pinks : set the plants pretty near together. Fine soft rains 

 all day : everything greatly refresh'd after so tedious a 

 drought. Sunny days & east winds for the most part ever 

 since the last week in March. 



29. Weeded the Carrots, & Laurels, & hoed the 

 potatoes : weeded the seedling-flowers. Tacked the Young 

 wood of the vines all perpendicular, for the first time, 

 according to Hit. 



