312 NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE 



The best Cantaleupes weigh'd about two pounds & an 

 half. 



Aug : 29. Cut a Cantaleupe, which prov'd a very fine 

 one. Weigh'd the largest of the great white-seed-Cucum- 

 bers : it's weight was three pounds & 14 ounces ; & it 

 measured 14 inch : & an half in length. 



Tull has dug the fruit-border twice, & levelled it : but 

 there has not been rain enough yet to moisten the stubborn 

 Clods, so as to make them fall well to pieces. 



29. Sowed a small Crop of Coss-lettuce for plants to 

 stand the winter. 



Aug: 31. Pruned the vines, that were much over-run 

 with shoots, for the last time. 



The Grapes just begin to turn Colour. 



Tyed-up about 20 endives, which run very large this 

 Year. All the buds of the double Hawthorn seem to be 

 dead. 



Septenf- 2. Cut two Cantaleupes, very fine fruit. The 

 Cantaleupes run to a fair size, notwithstanding the bed is 

 very little wider than the frames. The Succades produced 

 about 6 brace of good second-crop fruit, which ripen'd well, 

 & are almost all cut. 



4. Cut a fine Cantaleupe ; the last of any size or value. 

 It prov'd a very curious one. Mark'd the best, & most 

 double annuals for seed. 



5. Dug the fruit-border the fourth time after a great 

 rain : it fell well to pieces, & seems to be well-mellow'd 

 with sand & lime : 'till this rain it lay in great Clods as 

 hard as stones, being so much trod by the masons & 

 harden'd by a hot, sunny summer. It has three coats of 

 good mould on it, & must be full two feet deep in good 

 soil. 



Sept r - 8. Earth'd-up the Celeri for the first time. Cut 

 the two last Succades : good siz'd fruit. Cut in the whole 

 about 30 brace of melons of both sorts ; many were very 

 curious fruit. 



It is to be observ'd that, as my frames are so wide, 

 a crop of melons succeeds better when the bed is little 



