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are much check'd by being exposed at once to the open 

 air : but their fruit is not much wanted, now the hand- 

 glass-hills are in full bearing. 



14. Trenched-out four rows of stocky Celeri in one of 

 the lower quarters of the new garden. 



Showery weather. 



13. M r Tho : Mulso, & Lady, & M r - Edw : Mulso & 

 Miss Harriot Baker came to visit me. 



19. Finished planting-out 6 trenches of Celeri, & a 

 second plot of Endive. 



Cut the first Succade. 



Very wet weather. 



26. Succades come very fast. Cut some tollerable 

 Cauliflowers. Succades weigh 24 ounces, & are very dry. 

 Continual showers, & a quantity of hay damaged. 



Planted two rows of Gordon's Celeliac. 



27. Divided-out, & planted round the new garden M re - 

 Snooke's fine double Pheasant-ey'd-pinks. 



28. Drank tea 20 of us at the Hermitage : the Miss 

 Batties, & the Mulso family contributed much to our 

 pleasure by their singing, & being dress'd as shepherds, 

 & shepherdesses. It was a most elegant evening ; & all 

 parties appear'd highly satisfyed. The Hermit appeared to 

 great advantage. 



July 29. A vast rain. The hay lies about in a miserable 

 way. 



30. Cut the first Cantaleupe, which, considering the 

 wet season, proved a good one. 



Aug : i. Wet weather still. 



2. Took-up my Hyacinths under the fruit-wall : they 

 have many offsets, & seem not to be damaged with the wet 

 season. 



3. Terrible rain, & my neighbour's hay in a de- 

 plorable way. The rainy season has lasted just five weeks 

 today. 



Cut a fine-looking Cantaleupe, & sent it by the Ladies 

 (who left Selborne this day) to D r - Battie. 



Cut several Succades : they want sun & dry weather. 



