342 NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE 



Watered the Cantaleupes well, round the frames, & laid 

 some short hay over the mould to keep it moist. 



The Cabbages begin to look blue. 



27. Gather'd first marrow-fat pease. 



The Corn begins to suffer by the long dry weather. 



I Continue to water the melon-beds often. 



The Grass-walks look exceeding rusty. 



28. Cut the grass in the meadow, & slip. 



29. Just as all the grass was spread-about came a great 

 rain all day from the east : the only rain to do any good 

 for six weeks, & three days. 



30. Vast showers with Thunder & hail. 



Planted a plot of very forward Savoys ; & a plot of 

 later-sown ones. 



The thunder-shower damaged the zigzag a good deal. 

 The rain has thoro'ly soak'd the ground down to the 

 roots. 



July 4. Tyled the Succades that are but a middling 

 Crop. There is a second Crop coming on. 



Took-off the frames from the early cucumbers, which 

 bear still vastly. 



Half the hay is housed on waggons in barns : the rest 

 is in Cock. 



Soft, showery, growing weather. 



The Cantaleupes come-on unequally ; some scarce swell 

 at all, & some are full-grown. 



5. Rick'd the hay in very moderate order : the load 

 that stood in Kelsey's barn was strangely damp, & heated ; 

 & was spread & dry'd over again. 



6. Finish'd stopping-down, & tacking y e vines : they 

 are in full bloom. 



Planted a good plot of leeks in Turner's. 



Showery, growing weather. 



8. Put a quarter of a pound of hops to the strong- 

 brewed in Feb : which promises to be good. 



9. Showery weather still. 



Putty'd the melon frames to keep-out the wet : housed 

 the cucumber-frames. The plants that were in full bearing 



