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10. Put seven bottles of rasp : syrop to y e raisin- 

 wine. 



12. Tunn'd 8 gallons of good small raisin-wine in the 

 vinegar-barrel. What vinegar is bottled, is very fine, & 

 good. 



14. Plenty of Cucumbers up in the Hot-bed ; & in the 

 pot by the fire side. 



Planted a row of Laurel-cuttings in the field-garden. 



Hot-bed goes-on well : sunny weather for y e plants. 



15. Sowed a Crop of radishes, lettuce, & Carrots on 

 the sanded border under the melon-screen. Transplanted 

 some Cucumber-plants that came-up apace. 



17. Smart frost ; which enabled me to plough the new 

 garden after waiting the whole winter. ' Put more Cucum- 

 ber-seeds into the bed. 



19. The frost continues : carted into the new Garden 

 20 loads of marl well dissolved ; 7 loads of lime-Rubbish, 

 & soot from the Malt-house ; & a load & half of ashes. 

 The ground began to thaw towards noon, and was much 

 trodden, & kneaded before the Job was done. 



Put the rubbish & ashes on the two lower Quarters, & 

 the marl on the four upper ones. 



24. Long the mason finish'd the dry l wall of the Haha 

 in the new garden, which is built of blue rags, so massy, 

 that it is supposed to contain double the Quantity of stone 

 usual in such walls. Several stones reach into the bank 

 20 inches. 



The wall was intended to be 4 feet & an half high : but 

 the labourers in sinking the ditch on inclining ground 

 mistook the level, especially about the angle : so that at 

 that part to bring it to a level it is 5 feet 8 inch : high, & 

 4 feet 6 inch : at the ends : an excellent fence 2 against the 

 mead, 8 & so well fast'ned into the clay bank, that it looks 

 likely to stand a long while. The workmanship, exclusive 

 of casting the stones, cost i : 8s : lod. 



1 i.e. made without mortar. [H. M.] 



2 No wonder that the Haha is still (1899) in an excellent condition. [R. B. S.] 

 8 There was no " Park " at " The Wakes " at this time. [H. M.] 



