A GARDEN KALENDAR 399 



Mild, grey weather, with a tall barometer. 



Land is in excellent mellow, dry order : people are 

 sowing pease in the fields. 



March i. Dry weather still with a sinking glass. 



Brewed half an Hogsh : of strong-beer with 6 Bushels 

 of Rich : Knight's malt, & two pounds & three quarters of 

 good Hops. The water was from the well. 



Sent a large flitch of bacon to be dryed to M r - Etty's 

 chimney : it lay seven weeks & three days in salt on 

 account of the frost, during which it did not seem to take 

 salt. The sun broke-out after many shady days. 



2. A white frost, & very wet afternoon. 



3. Sun-shine morning, the first for a long time. 



Put some fresh Cucum r - plants into some of y e Hills : 

 the first-removed were coddled in their own steam for want 

 of Sun. Sowed the first Succades. 



March 6. The succades appear : the bed is full hot 

 this mild weather. 



7. Potted the succades : sowed more. 



Finished a low rod-hedge between y e garden, & the 

 orchard. Soft delicate weather. 



Planted some wood-straw-berries along at y e back of 

 y e new hedge. 



8. Transplanted some burnet, self-sown last summer : 

 sowed carrots, coss lettuce, radishes in y e border under the 

 melon-skreen. Brought-in 10 loads of dung for the 

 succade-bed ; & one load to line the Cuc r - seed-bed. 

 Cucum 1 " 5 - begin to shew runners. 



10. Planted one Chaumontelle-espalier-pear at the 

 S.W. side of the second middle quarter ; & one Crasan- 

 burgamot-pear opposite across the alley ; & one D- near 

 the standard nonpareil tree. These trees are from 

 Armstrong at N. Warnboro ; & are to supply the place of 

 those that failed. Planted two more fan-elms at the back 

 of the necessary-house. 



Hot, sunny weather. The Cucum r - bed is full warm. 



March 12. Sowed five rows of pease in the orchard the 

 first crop begins to appear. 



