CUCUMBER PLANTS. 3C7 



tiioming, and covered up In the evening with about 

 three inches thick of hay and mats. The air in the 

 frames of the bed, to which a lining was applied on 

 Monday laft, being come to a proper degree of heat 

 this afternoon, I planted the plants in it : In doing 

 which I turned them out of the pots with their balls 

 whole, andfet three plants in each hill, covering their 

 balls with fine mould, three inches up the (terns of the 

 plants above the furface of their balls. In the even- 

 ing the lights of thefe frames were covered up after 

 the fame manner as that of the old bed. The young 

 plants juft planted are beginning to break forth their 

 fhoots after the firfl flopping. 



Friday^ Odoher 25, I793» 



Hours. S.Th. P.Th. Ther. V/ind. 



6 — — 45 S.W. Hazy. 

 8 "jj 84 47 S.W. Ditto. 

 ^o 75 ^3 52 S.W. The fun appears faintly 



through lofty clouds. 

 12 79 84 56 S.W. Briik gale of wind j it 



rains lightly. 

 ^ 7"^ ^3 53 S.W. Fair, cloudy, windy. 

 4 68 83 52 S.W. Ditto. 

 ^ — — ^5 S.W. Cloudy, and a (Irong gale 



of wind. 



The frames were uncovered about 8 o'clock in the 

 morning, and covered up in the evening with about 

 three inches thick of hay and mats; In the forenoon 

 the plants were flopped, their leaves thinned, and the 

 fruit in blofTom fet. Air was given about 9 o'clock 

 in the morning, and taken away between 4 and 5 in 

 the afternoon. The air in the frames of the nev/ 



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