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4. Planted-out 2 hand-glasses of the large green 

 Cucumbers ; & a large pot of Savoys, & late - raised 

 Cabbages. 



8. Cold black weather, which makes the Cucumbers 

 pale, & ill-flavoured ; & hurts the melons. 



Drew first Carrots under the melon-screen. 



The Rooks are perchers : l there are but two ; & one of 

 the old ones was some how destroyed as soon as they were 

 hatched. 



9. Sowed the first Crop of endive. 



17. Great rain : rak'd-down, & planted the winding- 

 border over-against the fruit-wall with tall annuals behind, 

 & a row of China-asters before. 



Cut-off a large Succade fruit that was rotted at a joint 

 just by the stem of the fruit. It had firm seeds in it, & 

 would have soon been ripe. 



June 19. Limed the vine-borders round the house. 



Black weather without a gleam of sunshine for many 

 days. 



Prick'd out more Celeri. Planted more Savoys. 



21. Discovered a curious Orchis in the hollow shady 

 part of Newton-lane, just beyond the Cross. It is the 

 Orchis alba bifolia minor, Calcari oblongo ; grew with a 

 very long stem ; & has been in flower some weeks. I 

 brought-away the flower, & mark'd the root, intending to 

 transplant it into the Garden, when the leaves are wither'd. 



22. Hot summer weather. Cut my Clover-hay. 



Cut the first Succado. 



Hot burning weather, which grew more & more 

 vehement 'till the 25 ; & then a great deal of thunder, & 

 lightning all night. 



23. Cut a brace more Succades. 



25. Cut an other Succade. 



1 There is no Rookery at "The Wakes" now, but Mr. Maxwell drove me 

 over on the 5th of November 1899 to Newton Valence, and showed me a line 

 of splendid fir-trees in which there used to be a Rookery within his memory. 

 The birds have deserted this place also. Could Gilbert White's Rooks have 

 been a pair of Carrion Crows (C. corone) ? [R. B. S.] 



