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french-beans. Harsh, cold winds from the N : E : with 

 an high barometer. 



6. Cut-down an Head of the Burnet, & gave it the 

 Mare. The Heads are very large, & just offering for 

 Bloom. Very fine dry weather. 



May 7. Planted half Hund : of Cabbage-plants for a 

 succession. Planted some slips of the double wall-flower. 

 The melon-plants grow but poorly. 



Very dry weather ; & the ground very much bound. 

 The fleas eat the Savoys. 



Cut some Heads of Burnet, & gave it the Horses, 

 intending to observe how long it will be before they spring 

 again. Each root has a vast head. 



8. Made four Hills for hand-glass Cucum rs - with two 

 barrows of dung to each Hill. Very sultry weather ; & 

 showers about. 



13. Hot burning weather : the ground is bound very 

 hard. There has been hardly any rain for 18 days. The 

 peaches & Nect: by being sprinkled with water now & 

 then this dry time, swell away. One Nect : tho' treated 

 with the same care with the rest, is quite over run with 

 blistered leaves & shoots ; & must, in all appearance, be 

 taken away. 



The Succades in one Hill have long runners that have 

 been stopped down. The Cantaleupes seem not to take 

 well to their Hills. 



All the tulips seem to have run from their original 

 beauty. 



May 14. Rack'd-off half an hogsh : of raisin-elder 

 made last January, which was not quite free from fretting. 

 Let it stand one night in the Kiver, & return'd it into the 

 same barrel well wash'd ; with half a pint of brandy. The 

 wine is strong & sweet enough at present. There came- 

 out about a Gallon of Grout ; so that the barrel is not full. 



No rain yet, but a sinking Glass. 



The melons grow now. 



Stopp'd-down some of the most vigourous of the peach, 

 & Nect: shoots, which seem to threaten to run to Willow- 



