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Sowed a row of curled-parsley. 



The Grapes of M 1 *- Snooke's sort quite large : some of 

 my own just set: the other sorts just coming into bloom. 



29. Several showers. Planted more Savoys. 



30. Planted half hundred of common cabbages. 



Cut the laurel-hedge against the necessary very neatly 

 with a knife. 



July 2. Hot, burning weather for two days. 



Cut the first Succade ; but a small fruit. 



Housed my Cucumber-frames, & Glasses. 



3. Cut the second Succade. Very hot weather. 



4. Cut a brace more Succades. Stopped-down, & 

 tacked all the vines against the House : they are now in 

 full bloom, & smell very sweetly. 



Fine soft showers. Dug up the tulip-bed ; & several 

 Hyacinths from an old nursery. 



July 5. Planted some stocks from M r - Budd's in a 

 nursery bed. Stopped-down, & trimmed the Laurels 

 against Parsons's Yard, & the street. 



The Cantaleupes run vastly to bine, but do not fruit 

 well. Some few Cantaleupes in every light are almost full- 

 grown, & look very black, & rough. 



6. The first stout shower, that soaked the Ground 

 well. 



7. Cut a Succade that was crack'd very deeply at the 

 eye. The Cantaleupes usually crack so ; the Succades never 

 before. Sunny weather. 



Cut two brace more, the most choice fruit of the whole 

 Crop. 



9. Cut all the crop of Succades, three brace & an 

 half, tho' they were not crack'd at the tail, to carry them 

 to Fifield. Hot sunny weather. 



Ordered the bed to be well-watered for a second Crop. 

 Saved the seeds of a very delicate Succade, that grew close 

 to the stem. 



The Succades proved good at Fyfield. 

 21. At my return from Fyfield I found the Cantaleupes 

 greatly over-run with haulm, but no more fruit set. There 



