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at Gracious-street The springs are vastly high ; & the 

 Lavants l broke-out at Chawton. 



Turn'd the Cantaleupe-dung. 



7. Tempestuous winds, with vast rains, hail, & thunder. 



8 : 9. Stormy wind, & showers. The farmers are 

 vastly backward in their season. Very little lent-corn 

 sown. 



Frequent Claps of thunder, & a very cold air. 



April 12. The first fine spring-like day, & no wet the 

 whole day long. 



Potted the Cantaleupes. Sowed a Crop of Carrots, 

 parsneps, Coss-lettuce, radishes, onions, leeks, & savoys ; 

 & sowed one long row of finochia in a drill with a little 

 rotten dung mixed with the mould. The ground worked 

 as well as could be expected. The Mercury is shot up 

 very tall ; but the skie threatens again for wet. 



Lined the Cucumber-bed with some grass-mowings : 

 fruit blows every day. 



The Nightingales begin to sing. The Hyacinths begin 

 to blow. 



Planted five rows of potatoes in Turner's Garden, & put 

 old-thatch in four of the trenches, & peat-dust in one for 

 experiment sake. Exchang'd roots with M r - Etty, as his 

 ground is so different : his sort came originally from me. 



13. Made the Cantaleupe-bed for two frames in the 

 new Garden with 12 loads of dung that had been brought-in 

 just a fortnight, & cast once, & 60 bushels of tan on the 

 top of it. 



It is a stout bed ; & the tan lies at least six Inches thick. 

 There have been three pretty fine days together, without 

 any wind, & with very little rain. Some peaches & Nect : 

 blow finely : some have little bloom. 



Farmer Knight is to fallow, & plow Baker's Hill in an 

 Husband-like manner, this summer, & to sow it with wheat 

 at Mich : & to allow me the straw of the Crop for the use 

 of the Ground. 



The Year following he is to sow it with oats, & allow 



1 t.e. water-springs. [H. M.] 



