A GARDEN KALENDAR 321 



rows, three pints & half of early pease at four feet 

 apart. 



Very strong frost with thick ice : freezing air all day 

 with flights of snow. 



6. This is now the 14 day since the snow fell ; & it lies 

 in great Heaps still under the Hedges. 



There have been every day since cold cutting winds 

 with a dark cloudy skie, & strong frosts every night. 



The want of sun, & freezing air make the Cu- 

 cumber-plants look very poorly, & quite stop their 

 Growth. 



Sowed a gallon, n rows of dwarf-marrowfats, which at 

 3 feet & half a part just fill'd a quarter. 



Sowed two ounces of spinage. 



The dug-ground is quite dusty. 



10. Pull'd-up the forward Cucumbers, which have 

 never thrived since the fierce weather began ; & planted 

 some from y e seedling-bed which are better. 



Sowed a Celeri-bed with seed from London, & some 

 seed of a jagged-leaved sort from M r - Missing. 



Planted some Spanish-Chestnuts from M r - Roman, 1 & 

 some variegated Sycamore-keys from bro : Tom. Sowed 

 a bed of Leeks. This is the i8 th day of the frosty weather : 

 very thick ice last night ; & the snow still lies in cold 

 shady places. A freezing wind. 



March u. This is the 19 & last day of the fierce 

 weather. 



13. Cut down all the wall-trees, & all the espalier pears. 

 The two peaches seem unsound at the pith ; all the rest are 

 healthy trees. 



Widened the walk down Baker's-hill, & turfed it. 

 Planted several sorts of Asters in the new garden. 



Soft spring-like weather for the first time. 



15. Carryed-in ten loads of Hot dung for the Succade- 

 bed. 



26. Sowed Holy-oaks, sunflowers, Cullumbines, China 

 asters, & savoys. 



1 The Rector of Faringdon, when Gilbert White was curate there. [R. B. S.] 



2 S 



