354 GILBERT WHITE'S GARDEN KALENDAR. 



(had) green pease soup every day. The first hand-glass 

 cucumbers are in full bearing : I intend to save 4 more (the 

 large white Dutch) for seed. The small forward beans have 

 an unusual crop. The fourth and fifth crop of french beans 

 like to come to good. 



July 2. Planted out a vast bed of Holy-oaks. 



6. Not one Cantaleupe set yet. Planted out about 50 

 Polyanths raised this Spring from seed given me by Mr. 

 Hale. 



7. Finished my Hayrick in most excellent order. The 

 weather has been so perfectly hot and bright, for these five 

 days past, that my Hay was all cut and made in that time. 

 The crop was so great that Kelsey's people made 8 carryings 

 of it ; and the burden in the great mead was supposed to be 

 considerably greater than was ever known. To my own stock 

 I added two tons from Farmer Lassam, which in all made a 

 considerable rick. 



Finished cutting the hedges round Baker's Hill. 



21. On my return from Dene on this day I found I 

 had but one Cantaleupe set and that a fig-shaped one not 

 likely to come to good. The plants are in uncommon vigour; 

 °nd grow unaccountably, and are full of fruit still ; but 

 strangely deficient in male bloom. The void spaces in the 

 frames are quite filled out -with the remaining plants. Mr. 

 Cane's Cantaleupes were all burned up, with a noble crop on 

 them, about ten days before the fruit would have been ripe. 

 He had a fine crop : but the intense heats scorch'd off all the 

 fibres thro' his light dusty earth. Tull planted out Endives 

 and lettuce in abundance during my absence ; he pronged up 

 the bulbous roots against Parsons's, planting annuals in their 

 room. John trimmed and nailed the vines in a very hand- 

 some manner according to Hitt. Those vines that have been 

 managed in that manner for two years, have a noble crop of 

 fruit very forward. My crops of beans and pease are very 

 extraordinary this year. The annuals against the broad walk 

 in the new Garden are uncommonly large. 



23. Gathered 3(5 cucumbers. Earthed up the chinks round 

 the hand glasses with melon loam. 



