June 1, 1779

Posted by sydney on Jun 1st, 1779

In Mr. Richardson’s garden ripe scarlet strawberries every day; large artichokes, pease, radishes, beans just at hand. Bramshot soil is a warm, sandy loam. Small cauliflowers. Wheat shoots into ear. Barley & peas are good on the sands. The sands by liming, & turniping produce as good corn as the clays.

Many large edible chestnut-trees which grew on the turnpike road near Bramshot-place were cut this spring for repairs: but they are miserbaly shaky, & make wretched timber. They are not only shaky, but what the workmen call cup-shakey, coming apart in great plugs, & round pieces as big as a man’s leg. The timber is grained like oak, but much softer.

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