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21. Quite heavy showers to day, & strong wind. Some 

 of the melon-leaves measure 1 1 inches and three Quart"- in 

 diameter. 



20. Gathered first French-beans ; white dwarfs. 



24. Stringed l pine strawberries. 



Continual showers. 



25. Dug-up Hyacinth, & tulip-roots : Hyacinths bloated 

 with the wet weather. Planted in their room African & 

 French-Marrigolds. Vast rains still. 



26. Great rain. 



28. Vast rains with Thunder. 



29 : 30. Dry weather : on 3i st rain for 14 hours. The 

 melon-vines suffer with the continual wet, which has con- 

 tinued now more than a month. Cut-off a full-grown 

 Cantaleupe that was rotten. 



August i. Black, moist weather all day ; vast rains at 

 night. 



2. Sultry, bright morning : turned the large Melons. 



3. Tiled, & turned all the largest melons : full twenty 

 brace set ; tho' perhaps they may not all ripen. 



4. Sowed half pound of spinage, & some white-turnep- 

 radish-seed in the new field-Garden : began planting-out 

 savoys, & Boorcole. Two hot, bright days. 



5. Cut-off the small side-shoots from the bearing wood 

 of the vines, leaving one joint on ; according to Hitt's 

 directions. Grapes pretty large. The fourth hot, dry day. 



7. Drawed-out the boorcole, & savoy-bed to a foot & 

 half apart, & planted the new field-Garden with D- 



8. Brought in a doors the Pryamidal Campanula : it 

 has seven Stems, & just begins to shew some bloom. 



Aug. ii. Trenched two long rows more of Celeri. 

 Vast rains the two days before. 



12. Finished the hay-rick : hay-making was in hand 

 just seven weeks. A deal of Hay much damaged. 



13. Beautiful harvest-weather. 



16. Tyed-up some of the forwardest endives. Vast 

 rains last night, & this evening. The wheat is all cut, & 



1 i.e. tied them up, as was the method in those days. [H. M.] 



