Garden-Kalendar for the Year 1766 



/0. I st - The last Year concluded, & this began with a 

 very dry, still frost. 



Wheeled into the melon-ground a parcel of my own 

 dung that had never taken any wet ; there having been no 

 rain worth mentioning for many weeks. 



4. Made the seedling cucumber-bed. 



10. Sowed about 30 cucum r - seeds. 



13. The bed heats well, & the plants begin to appear. 

 Severe, still frost yet. The ground has never thawed at 

 all in the middle of the day, since this weather began ; but 

 is covered with dust. There have been several small flights 

 of snow ; but never enough quite to cover the ground : 

 & yet several red-breasts, & some red-wings have been 

 found frozen to death. It froze within very much to-night. 



17. The same still, dry weather continues, with a dark 

 sky, & high barometer. The snow is quite gone ; & the 

 ground all dust. To-day the frost has lasted just three 

 weeks. The cucum rs - come-up well : sowed more. 



Jan. 1 8. Somewhat of a thaw. 



19. A thaw still with an high barometer & a fog : the 

 first Cucum rs - are potted, the second -sown are come-up 

 well. 



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