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all the night, & tore & destroyed the things in the Gardens 

 worse than the former : it broke down vast boughs in the 

 Hedges, & had like to have overturned the Limes in the 

 Butcher's Yard. If the Annuals had been planted-out they 

 must have been quite whipped to pieces. The hedges look 

 bare, & unsightly by being lashed, & banged by the wind ; 

 & the Ground is strawed with leaves. 



13. The middle Waverley-Cantaleupe has some decayed, 

 rotten runners : Quae : if occasioned by those two water- 

 ings all over their leaves in that scorching weather in 

 May. 



The leaves of the Armenian-Cantaleupes have a much 

 blacker aspect than those of the Waverley. 



14. Planted the empty basons in the field, & two 

 borders in the New-Garden with annuals, French, & Afr : 

 Marrygolds, Sunflowers, Nasturtiums, pendulous Amar- 

 anths, & China Asters. 



Hot growing weather : vast showers about. 



15. Planted 150 Savoys from Alton. 



16 : 18. Lined-out the Cantaleupe-bed with loam very 

 deep quite down to y e Ground on each side : the fibres 

 may now, if they please, extend themselves 16 feet. 



The plants look in a most thriving way, & are loaded 

 with fruit ; btit they hold-off from setting strangely : no 

 one set yet. 



Cut-off a great branch of one of the Waverley-Canta- 

 leupes, that was quite rotten. 



June 19. Planted-out Crop of leeks ; & some late Coss- 

 Lettuce. 



Furious hot summer weather. 



20. To be planted pint of french-beans ; and an early 

 row of Celeri to be trenched. 



All the former Crops of french-beans like to come to 

 nothing. 



23. Called-in upon M>- Miller at Chelsea, & found he 

 had 1 8 lights of Armenian - Melons in excellent order. 

 There were about two brace, & half of fruit to a light, 

 full-grown, & very rough, & black. He pushes his lights, 



