"CUCUMBER PLANTS* 1751 



morning, and covered up in the evening with about 

 three inches thick of hay and mats. In the forenoon 

 I went over the plants and (topped them, thinned 

 their leaves, and fet the fruit in blolTom. Air was 

 admitted from 10 o'clock in the morning till 4 in the 

 afternoon, when the lights were fhut down for the 

 night. 



The frames were uncovered at 8 o'clock in the 

 morning, and covered up in the evening with about 

 four inches thick of hay and mats. At 10 o'clock 

 I went over the plants and flopped them, thinned their 

 leaves, and fet the fruit in bloflbm. 



To-day I had the north-fide lining renewed, in 

 doing which tlie unexhaufted dung of it was laid 

 afide, and the rotten exhaufted part of it wheeled 

 away, leaving about nine or ten inches of the found- 

 ation unremoved, and which I had loofened up with 

 the dung-forks, and then the unexhaufted dung that 

 was laid a fide was well fhaken and laid upon it, mak- 

 ing the lining of an equal height therewith ; when 

 that was done, the lining was finifhed with new dung, 



and 



