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Took off the glasses from y e early Cucumbers, & annuals 

 to give them y e benefit of the showers. 



28 : 29. Housed four loads of peat in most excellent 

 dry order. The uncommon dryness occasions some waste 

 by making the bats l crumble. 



Gathered two scarlet strawberries. 



The early beans have large pods : the early pease are 

 well blown. 



30. The rain on the 29 th very heavy for some Hours ; 

 so as to make the Cart-way run. Raked all the rough-dug 

 ground that was, 'till moistened, like an heap of stones. 

 Prick'd a plot of Celeri. 



31. Sowed a pint more of large French-beans. The 

 first sowings strangely devoured by snails. Tull gathered 

 a bowl-dish three quarters full in one evening ; & still 

 the plants were almost covered with them y e next. Cold 

 winds, & frosty mights since the rain. 



Hoed the strawberries that were planted last Autumn, 

 & filled-up the vast cracks in their beds. At least half the 

 Autumn planted pine-strawberries are dead. The scarlet 

 will have some fruit ; & so will the few plants of Collin- 

 son's. The Nova Scotia will not bear this Year. 



Stringed the bearing pine-strawberries, which are full 

 of bloom. 



The Autumn sown Capuchin, & Brown-Lettuce, now in 

 high perfection. I have a very poor Crop of Coss-lettuce 

 this Spring. 



June i. Distant thunder, & fine showers all the evening, 

 & part of the night. 



May 3i st - June I st - : 2 nd - John 2 tacked all the vines for 

 the first time this Year according to Hitt. Those vines that 

 were dressed in that method last Year, are now full of 

 fruit : those that have been trained only this Year have 

 little, or none. 



1 The peat was cut into pieces of about the size of a brick-bat. Even fifty 

 years ago many people used peat-" bats" for banking up their wood-fires, but 

 coal has now taken its place. [H. M.] 



His nephew. [R. B. S.] 



