CUCUMBER PLANTS, 3II 



and the fruit in bloflbm fet, and the mould adjoining 

 to the flues was watered with water about 80 degrees 

 warm. The young plants were watered and flopped 

 the fecond time. Air was given a little before 9 in 

 the morning, and taken away in the evening. 



TO carry on farther the account of the management 

 of the plants would be fuperfluous. I have cut fruit 

 from them in ten months of the year, and fmce they 

 were cut in, their fhoots laid, and the flues cleared 

 of mould, which was done on the 4th day of O6I0- 

 ber, the plants have flruck root afrefli, and are now, 

 this 3 1 ft day of October, in a vigorous, healthy, 

 flourifliing ftate, with fruit fliowing plentifully, and 

 fome fet ; and if the weather prove favourable, per- 

 haps fruit may be cut from them in November and 

 December, and, by good management, they may be 

 enabled to continue producing fruit during the greateft 

 part of the year 1794. 



From the 2d of Odober 1793 to the 25th of 

 January 1794, not the fmalleft grain of fnow was 

 perceived to fall at this place, and during that time 

 but very little wind was ftirring. On the 25th 

 of January the wind from the weft rofe very high, 

 and about i o'clock fome fnow fell, and the mercury 

 in the thermometer funk to 27. 



Sunday, January 26, was clear all day, and a 

 ftrong gale of wind blew from the weft. 



U 4 Monday^ 



