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24. Severe frost with heaps of drifted snow on the 

 Ground. A high barometer. 



The Cucumber-bed steams very much ; & it has been 

 so very cold lately, that there has been very few oppor- 

 tunities of giving the plants sufficient air. The plants look 

 the worse for their Confinement. 



25. Finding the bed full hot, I pull'd-off the pease- 

 haulm-lining at the back. 



Sowed the Clover in Baker's hill all over with two dung- 

 carts of Ashes. 



27. Sowed 8 basons of double upright-larkspurs along 

 the border of the Garden-door walk, & in the border 

 between the Cherry-trees. 



Cold black weather : the snow has now laid a week in 

 shady places. 



The forward Cucumbers look very poorly. 



March i. Fierce frosts a nights, & strong cutting winds 

 a days with storms of snow. 



Murdoch Middleton's pear-trees of last year proving 

 canker'd, & distemper' d, he changed them ; & I added some 

 more sorts. 



They stand now as follows in the new Garden, begin- 

 ning from the first quarters on the side next the wall, then 

 going down the middle quarters ; & then by the side of the 

 terrass. 



N : Side of the Quarters next the wall : 



Chaumontelle, & Virgoleuse : 



S : side of D- Crasane, & Doyenne : 



The middle quarters : 



S l Germain, Brown Bury, Doyenne : 



Up the side of the terrasse : 



Autumn Burgamot ; & Swann's egg. 



There are also at the inner ends of the wall-quarters two 

 Green-gage plums : 



One Crasane-pear in the border of the walk facing the 

 Garden-door : & one le Royal, & one Queen-Claudia plum 

 in the melon-screen border. 



March 2. Planted a plot in Turner's with five 



