A GARDEN KALENDAR 303 



First cucumber blowed before any male bloom. 



Transplanted out forward lettuce from y e wall. Dress'd 

 Rasps. 



March 28. The Succade-bed was beginning to burn 

 it's mould a little : put some fresh mould round the bottom 

 of the hills. 



26. Cast 1 8 loads of dung for the Cantaleupe-bed. 



Planted some Catch-flies on the end of the bank next 

 the house. 



Planted four rows of fine large potatoes cut to pieces : 

 each row three feet apart ; & each piece one foot. 



30. Grafted the tall peaked pear-tree in the orchard 

 with Doyenne-Grafts ; & the standard pear in the new 

 Garden with Crasan, & Chaumontelle Grafts. The Cions 1 

 came from Ringmer ; & the two latter sorts were canker'd 

 & bad. Put an handful of salt in the loam. 



Hot sunshine with a drying east wind. 



Cut vent-holes in the front of the succade-bed to 

 prevent burning. 



31. Planted some wild, & Garden Lathy russ in the 

 bank at the back of the melon-screen between each two 

 Holy oaks : they were two years old in the seedling-bed, & 

 had long tap-roots between 2 & 3 feet long running into 

 the carrion. The seed of the wild Lathyrus was gathered 

 from a plant observed by my Bro : Tom to flourish most 

 beautifully in the midst of a bush in the short Lythe. 



April i. The Succade-bed continuing too hot, I ordered 

 a pole to be thrust quite thro' the bed under each hill, so 

 that one might see thro'. One hill being more furious than 

 the rest I had the plants (top of hill & all) taken-off in a 

 shovel, & the hill new made-up with cold earth. The 

 plants grow, & are not yet injured. 



i. Grafted in two cuttings of M : Middleton's espalier- 

 Crasane, instead of the Ringmer ones, which were canker'd 

 & bad : left one Ringmer one. 



Planted 6 basons of double larkspurs in the new-garden 

 borders. 



1 Scions. [H. M.] 



