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weather might be said to last exactly 8 weeks, beginning 

 the day after S l - Mark. 



Turn'd-out the white cucumbers from under y e Hand- 

 glasses : they are very strong, & shew fruit. 



15. Sowed a Crop of Endive ; two rows of fenochia, 

 & some vast white kidney-beans from Lima. 



Hot, sunny weather. 



17. Trimm'd-out the Succades, which were grown very 

 rude & wild : the fruit keeps setting here & there, but not 

 very fast. The bed is very warm, & has been pretty fre- 

 quently water'd. The Cantaleupes seem to be setting ; the 

 bines are still but weak. 



Some little shattering showers, which refresh the leaves 

 of things : but the ground is still as hard as ever. M rs - 

 Snooke's black-cluster Grape is beginning to blow before 

 any of the other vines, even the white-sweetwater. 



June 19. Hot dry weather with an high Glass. 



Cut my Grass : four mowers cut the great mead, y e slip, 

 & the shrubbery by dinner-time. Some of the Succades are 

 almost grown, some setting, & some plants have no fruit 

 swelling yet. Watered the outsides of the Succade-bed 

 this very dry weather. Tack'd & thinn'd the Peach, & 

 Nect : trees : there is but little fruit. Some of the trees 

 run to too vigorous wood. The ground is strangely dry'd, 

 & burnt. My Crop of Grass is very well for so burning 

 an Year. 



21. Pick'd-up my Hay without one drop of rain; tho' 

 the Clouds, a sinking Glass, & an hollow wind threatned 

 very hard : there were five jobbs. 



Water'd the Crops very much. 



22. A N. Wind, a rising Glass, & all tokens of rain over 

 for the present. Water'd the Cantaleupes : there are a 

 good many fruit set in y e first frame ; but a poor promise 

 in the second. 



Water'd the things again. 



24. Gave the Cantaleupe-bed a good lining with two 

 waggon loads of dung ; & some layers of Grass from the 

 orchard to set it in a ferment. The Cantaleupes now shew 



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