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fth. A hard frost, & ice. Gathered-in all the grapes, 

 about a bushel, the weather threatning for more frost. 

 Spread the best bunches on a sheet in the dining-room. 



12. Replaced the rasp-plants that dyed in the summer. 



The leaves of y e Butcher's limes but just begin to fall. 



The leaves in general hold-on well this year, thro' the 

 mildness of the season. 



17. I planted the border by the wallnut-tree in y e best 

 Garden with two rows of my fine white, & blue Hyacinths : 

 the blue are altogether at the end next the House. The 

 border was well-dunged ; & planted in good dry order. I 

 planted also a good large spot with smaller roots, & 

 offsets to make a nursery. The blue at the end next the 

 House. 



Dark still weather for many days, with some small rain 

 sometimes, & a very high barometer. The water is much 

 sunk away in the roads, & lakes. 



Nov r - 1 8. Discovered the common polypody (poly- 

 podium vulgare) in the hollow lane ; & the stinking flag- 

 flower, called Gladdon or Gladwin, (Iris foetida, Hyris 

 dicta) in the hollow lane between Norton-yard, & French- 

 meer just without the gate : it was thrown, in all probability, 

 out of the garden which was formerly just on the other 

 side of the Hedge. In general it is esteemed a bad blower; 

 but this parcel of plants has produced many flowers this 

 summer ; & have several pods, which open in three parts, 

 & turn-out y ir scarlet berries much in the manner of the 

 male piony. There is but one seed in each berry. 



Discovered the common Spurrey (alsine, spergula dicta 

 major) in pod, & bloom in a ploughed field : most exactly 

 described by Ray. 



22. A very fierce frost for two nights : it froze within 

 the second. Discovered little field-madder (rubeola arvensis 

 repens coerulea) & the small flowered pansy (viola bicolor 

 arvensis) in a wheat-stubble in great abundance. 



The potatoes turned-out well beyond expectation after 

 such a burning summer : those planted on peat-dust were 

 superior to those on old thatch. 



