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ttbout one hour ; at 4 o'clock plenty of cold watet 

 was poured on the flues. The linings, being funk, 

 were raifed with frefh dung and watered. Having 

 prepared a nine-light bed for the young cucumber 

 plants, to-day I had linings put to it. To the north 

 Ude of the bed an entire new lining was applied, but 

 to the ends and fouth fide only half a lining of new 

 dung was applied, that is, about twenty inches of 

 rotten dung was fuiFered to remain in the foundation, 

 of the fouth fide and end Hnings, fo that the height 

 of frelli dung laid on was only about twenty inches. 

 The dung applied to the north fide had lain in a fer- 

 ment for fome days, but that of the fouth fide waa 

 frefh from the flablesi 



Tuefday^ Odober 22, 1793. 



Hours. S.Th. P.Th. Ther. Wind. 



6 — — 4^ W. Cloudy, nearly calms 



7 80 85 49 W. Ditto. 



8 78 85 51 W. Ditto. 

 10 78 85 S3 E, Hazy. 

 12 76 85 60 E. Ditto. 



1 82 85 58 E. Ditto. 



2 81 85 57 E. Gloomy. 

 4 js ^5 54 E. Ditto. 



9 — — S9 E. Cloudy, 



The frames were uncovered about 7 o'clock in thd 

 morning, and covered up in the evening with about 

 two inches thick of hay and mats. In the morning the 

 plants were ftopped, their leaves thinned, and the 

 fruit, in bioHom fet. The end linings were taken 

 down about twenty inches, and made up with hot 



IT dung. 



