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the boxes are raised, a barrow & half each at least. Bed 

 comes slowly to its heat ; & is very mild yet. 



31. Planted groups of Sweet Williams in the border 

 under the rod-hedge down the shrubbery. 



Put half barrow more of loam to each Cantaleupe-Hill. 

 Bed very mild. 



Finished a bastion, & Haha, fenced with sharp'ned piles, 

 in the vista from Baker's Hill to the Great-mead: & a 

 conical mount, about six-feet diameter at top, and five high, 

 at the bottom of the great mead. Mount about eight days 

 work ; Haha about sixteen. 1 



Fierce frost, & vast hoar-frost on the Grass : the Ground 

 continued very hard, and icy all day in the shade. 



April 2. Sowed ounce of Carrots with green, & white 

 Coss-Lettuce ; ounce of Onions ; & a few parsneps. Fine 

 weather. 



3. The Cantaleupe-bed not coming to a proper degree 

 of Heat, I ordered it to be pulled to pieces, & worked-up 

 with 10 loads of fresh hot dung just brought in. The 

 Labourers made-use of about 16 loads of the first bed 

 again : so the new bed contains 26 loads. Laid some loam 

 all over to keep-down the steam ; ^ some turfs under the 

 Hills. Put one barrow of loam to each Hill. 



Bed more than seven feet wide ; & two feet & half 

 thick behind. 



April 4. Widened-out the Cucumber-bed in front three 

 feet with about two loads of the dung, which came-out of 

 the Cantaleupe-bed; & laid-on a thick covering of strong 

 loam : lined it behind with Grass, & weeds. 



Some fruit set, that grows apace. 



Planted some Everlasting-pease of my sowing last Year ; 

 and some earth-Nut Lathyruss under the rod-hedge against 

 Parsons's. 



Planted more sweet-Williams, & some Columbines 

 under the rod-hedge against the shrubbery. Planted 8 

 Laurels, with a sweetwilliam between each two, on the 



1 The Haha still exists, and is in excellent preservation. [R. B. S.] 



