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19. Vast rimes all day long for these two days without 

 the least thaw. 



20. To day is 10 weeks since there was rain. 



21. Vast rimes still day & night. 



22. To-day the frost has been a month. 



24. Made my bearing-cucumber-bed with ten loads of 

 very good dung. 



The first-sowed cucumber-plants look very well for such 

 a severe season, & have a rough leaf, & an other opening. 

 I keep sowing more seeds every week. Very bright still 

 weather. 



25. I measured in a new-dug grave in Faringdon 

 Church-yard, & found the frost had enter'd the ground 

 about 10 inches. Vast fog. 



27. This day the dry weather had lasted eleven 

 weeks. 



28. The frost begins to slack. 



Jan: 29. Strong south-wind with rain, & a mild thaw. 

 The frost began this day five weeks. 



31. A thoro' thaw with strong wind, & a great rain. 



Feb : 5. After ten days absence at Ringmer I found the 

 Cucumber-plants in pretty good order ; but the bearing-bed 

 too hot to plant-in. 



8. Planted my Cucumber-plants in the bearing-bed, 

 which seems to be pretty mild. 



The plants are of different ages : the forwardest have 

 a joint, & a broad rough leaf. 



Wet blowing weather for several days. 



Feb : 9. Brewed half Hogsh : of strong-beer with 5 

 bush : of malt, & two p ds - & half of hops. 



Used only rain-water to try the difference. 



Added one bush : of malt, & made an hogsh : of table- 

 beer. 



12 : 13. Heavy snow for 14, or 16 hours. 



14. Deep snow notwithstanding the ground was so 

 wet ; & a pretty hard frost, & bright sunshine. 



The cucumber-plants grow, & look very well ; & some 

 of them have two joints. 



