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the bastion, & sowed it very thick with rye-grass, & white 

 clover. Sowed y e bare places in the fields, & orchard with 

 the same. 



Planted two rows of slips of a very fine sort of double- 

 bloody-wall-flower from my Dame Scot's of Harting. 



Made the ground very mellow with lime-rubbish. Sowed 

 a plot of Holy-oak-seed, & leek-seed. Planted some rose- 

 campions, & Columbines in the new Garden. 



A perfect summer's day, that fetched y e beds finely to 

 their heat after such gluts of rain. 



Saw seven swallows, the first this Year, playing about 

 James Knight's House. 



My great Dutch-Cucumbers come-up in one of the 

 Cantaleupe-boxes almost every seed. 



14. Sowed the annual Bed with African, & French 

 Marrygolds purple, & white Asters, & pendulous Ama- 

 ranths. 



Planted a potatoe-bed with fine large potatoes cut in 

 pieces, which came from Swarraton : three rows a yard 

 from each other. Put half barrow of loam into each 

 Cantaleupe-light. 



19. Cut brace of Cucumbers : the second time of 

 cutting. 



Sowed everlasting pease, & wild-Lathyrus from the 

 Lythe ; soaked the seeds in water two nights & a day : 

 Dwarfsunflowers ; Nasturtiums; Tree-primroses; Rhubarb; 

 Boorcole, red, & green ; & savoys. 



Dressed Artichokes. 



April 16. Earthed Cantaleupe hills for the first time : 

 examined into the hills, & found the bed unexpectedly 

 warm : no loam burnt, but very hot. Gave a pretty deal 

 of water. Plants in general thrive, & throw-out runners. 

 The turfs at bottom very useful. Very cutting, March-like 

 weather. 



17. Cut brace more of Cucumbers. 



Very stormy, cold weather. 



16. Heard the first nightingale in my fields. 



On my return on the 28 from Oxon I found the Canta- 



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