Garden-Kalendar for the Year 1759 



Jan. 19. Wheeled-in, & cast 18 barrows of hot dung 

 for the seedling-Cucumber-bed. 



20. The season has continued uncommonly mild to 

 this time. Many kinds of flowers are got above ground 

 some weeks before their usual time : the snow-drops, & 

 some Crocus's were in bloom before old Decem r - was out : 

 & Farmer Knight complains that several of his turneps are 

 in blossom. 1 



Covered the tulip, & Hyacinth-buds with a thin coat of 

 tan that is rotten. 



Have got some mould in excellent order for the early 

 Cucumbers; it is a mixture of strong loam, ashes, & tan, 

 tumbled about & well incorporated all the winter. 



The Glass has been very high for many days with a 

 falling mist, & a blustering west-wind. 



Jan: 22. Turned the earth trench'd for y e Melons, & 

 gave it an other sprinkle of very rotten dung : turned the 

 Dorton-earth, & mixed with it three barrows of rotten tan. 



23. Made the Cucumber seedling-Hot-bed turning the 

 fronts to the south-west to take all the sun these short 

 days. Hard frost for two nights, & bearing Ice. 



24. Laid - on the mould on the hot - bed ; fill'd & 

 plunged four pots for Cucumber seeds. Sowed a pot with 

 Cucumber-seeds, & set it by the parlour fire for experi- 

 ment-sake. These seeds came-up, but would not advance 

 beyond the two first leaves. 



26. Bed come a kindly heat: sowed above an 100 

 Cucumber-seeds within & without the pots. 



1 These turnips had certainly got extraordinarily forward. [H. M.] 



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