278 NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNL 



Frequent good showers. The ground is now finely 

 soaked. 



Continued picking vast quantities of slugs from the 

 french-beans, which are in a poor way. 



June 3. Continual heavy showers all night, & all day. 

 The Ground is now well soaked. 



5. Lined-out the Cantaleupe-bed with twelve dung- 

 carts of hot dung. The bed is now 12 feet broad, & 40 

 feet long. 



Continual showers all day : so that no loam could be 

 laid on y e bed, but what was already housed in the earth- 

 house. 



The Fig-tree has plenty of fruit, which grows apace. 



June 5. Such a violent Rain, & wind all the evening, & 

 most part of the night that they broke-down, & displaced 

 the pease, & beans, & most of the flowers; & tore the 

 hedges, & trees, & beat down several of the shrubs. 



6. Continual rain all day. The lining of the Cantaleupe- 

 bed, which is not yet earthed, in danger of losing it's Heat 

 by being so thoro'ly soaked. 



8. Earthed the lining of the Cantaleupe-bed, & raised 

 the frames to the top of the earth. 



The Waverley plants had filled the frames with their 

 roots : the fibres of y e Armenian sort had not extended 

 themselves so much. 



Sowed a pint more of dwarf-kidney-beans in the room 

 of those that were devoured by snails. Fine summer 

 weather. 



Turned-down the three forward basons of Cucumbers 

 from out their Hand glasses. 



9. Gathered first beans, a large Mess. 



Fine soft weather for some days ; now a soaking rain. 



ii. Finished-off the borders in the new-Garden, by 

 cleansing, raising, & laying a good coat of fine peat-dust, 

 finely sifted, in order to make them light, & dry. 



Sowed the first plot of Endive ; & a plot of Lettuce, 

 green & white Coss. 



12. In the Evening began a vast storm which continued 



