3o6 NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE 



16. Measured my new purchased piece of Garden, 

 which contained forty two rods of Ground ; & the old part 

 fifty six : in all half an acre, & eighteen rods. 



18. Planted some cuttings of the black Cluster, & 

 Muscadine Grapes. 



20. Made a frame, or cradle for annuals of rods, & 

 pease-haulm about four feet wide, & eight feet long ; & 

 put into it about 16 barrows of dung, & grass-mowings. 



April 20. Made a small hot-bed for the small one-light 

 frame to raise white-cucumbers in. 



Set-up the urns. 



21. Turn'd-out six pots of Cantaleupes in the six hills : 

 there were two plants in every pot except one. The plants 

 are strong, & stocky ; but seem to be somewhat injured by 

 staying so long in the pots. The bed now seems safe from 

 burning, having been made sixteen days. Sowed some 

 white-Dutch . . . Cucumbers in the one-light frame. Cut 

 the first Cucumber, which might have been cut some days 

 before. More fruit were lost than usual : but now there 

 are abundance set. The bees frequent the frames 

 much. 



Planted 12 cuttings more of the double wallflower. 



April 28. Planted five rows of dwarf- white-french-beans 

 pretty thin in one of the new Quarters : used just a pint of 

 beans. 



Finding some of the Cantaleupe-plants look a little 

 amiss, I prick'd two seeds into each hill. 



Cutting N : E : Winds for many days. 



Cucumbers sett at a vast rate : there are now about 

 three brace fit to cut. 



Sowed more white-Dutch-Cucumbers in the one-light 

 frame : and a few large dark-green. 



May 12. Fine rain after a long dry fit. 



Sowed a small crop of Roman-Broccoli. 



Cucumbers in vast abundance, & very large. 



The Succades offer fine fruit. 



14. Hot summer weather : the Succades swell & seem 

 several of them to be set. 



