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small ; & only five or six more just set ; & only one 

 Succade set. 



The late-sown white-Cucumbers begin to bear a little ; 

 the first are quite wither'd away. 



An universal blight has this summer more or less 

 affected all the vegetable world. 



The grapes to the Yard are very thinly set : those to the 

 South-west are thick set, & very forward ; but the Bunches 

 are small. 



Tull 1 in my absence trench'd four rows of Celeri in 

 Turner's Garden ; & planted-out a Crop of Savoys. No 

 rain for three weeks & three days 'till Aug : i : & then 

 showers. 



Aug : 4. Sowed a box of Mezereon-seed. 



7. Planted-out a Crop of Coss-lettuce to come-in in 

 Septem r - 



Continual Showers ; & the Corn begins to grow. 2 



9. The Succade-melons now set apace. 



The white cucumbers bear but poorly. 



10. Vast rains. 



u. Cantaleupe-melons set now ; but are seemingly too 

 late for ripening. 



Sowed Coss, & Dutch lettuce to stand the winter. 



Sowed a quarter of a pound of spinage mixed with 

 white turnep-radishes. Put the bulbous roots in paper- 

 bags, and hung them in the lumber-garret. They are 

 vastly increased, especially the Hyacinths. 



Aug: 14. Trimm'd the side-shoots of the vines the 

 fourth time : the fruit thin on the bunches. 



Fine harvest weather for several days past, with cold 

 drying north winds. 



The white-cucumber-plants, which produced one fair 

 large fruit ; now shew nothing but spotted, sickly ones. 

 The early bed bears pretty tolerably still. 



1 8 th - Cut more than half the second Crop of Clover on 



1 Tull's name was " Robin," and it occurs in the account-book (see Bell's ed., 

 vol. ii. p. 321. [R. B. S.] 



2 i.e. sprout in the sheaf. [H. M.] 



