A GARDEN KALENDAR 315 



Decem r - 17. Made half hogsh : of raisin -wine with 

 hundred of Smyrnas, & half hundred of Malagas ; & put 

 to them 13 buckets of water, each bucket containing 

 3 Gal: 



22. Wheel'd-in 20 wheel-barrows of hot-dung to cast 

 ready for a seedling-Cucumber-bed. 



Vast quantities of rain have fallen the autumn & winter 

 thro' : & as yet there have been but a very few days of 

 hard frost. 



23 : 24. Vast rains, & floods. 



26. Made an hot-bed for the biggest one light frame 

 with the 20 barrows of dung. 



Planted a Dutch-medlar, & a Service in the old 

 orchard ; & a mountain-ash in one of the basons in the 

 field. 



Vast rains. 



30. The bed not coming to it's heat from the vast 

 wetness of the Dung, I order'd in a load from Kelsey's ; 

 which with 10 barrows of my own made a new one. 



By the negligence of Murdoch Middleton my wall-trees 

 never came 'till the 26 : they are in general good trees, 

 were planted (considering the wetness of the season) in 

 good condition ; & in the following order, beginning from 

 the terrass : Breda Apricot ; sweet- water vine ; Roman 

 Nectar : M r - Snooke's black-cluster vine ; Roman Nect : 

 white Muscadine vine ; Newington Nectar : 



Mur : Middleton's Sweet-water-vine ; Nobless-peach ; 

 M r - Sn : White Muscadine vine ; Nobless-peach ; John 

 Hale's 2 Passion flowers, one at each end of the wall. 



Decem r - 30. Planted two Cistus's in M r - Etty's dry 

 garden ; & a Phlomis, & an Halimus in my own. Planted 

 some cuttings of the American black Poplar, & the 

 Groundsel-tree in the Nursery. 



