Goose-berries, & currans are coddled on the trees by the frost. Planted the basons in the fields with the annuals. Began to tack the vine-shoots: there will be a tollerable bloom. The potatoes in the meadow seem to be all killed. Aphides prevail on the many fruit-trees. Medlar-tree blows. The sun at setting shines up my great walk.
The frost cut down all the early kidney-beans, injured the annuals; & made the apple-trees cut much of their fruit.
Stocks blow, & are very double and handsome!
Wells sink: Benham’s is dry. Sprinkled & washed the foliage of the fruit-trees, that were honey-dewed, & began to be affected with aphides. Stocks blow finely. Tulips, thro’ heat, will continue but a small time in bloom.
Sowed a crop of kidney-beans. large white Dutch. Planted some basons in my field with China-asters, & China pinks. Pricked out many China asters, on a mild hot-bed. Honey-suckles stocks, & wall-flowers smell sweetly. Tulips blow out but their cups will be much larger. The large Apricot-tree much infested with maggots, which twist & roll-up the leaves; these we open, & destroy the maggots, which would devour most of the foliage. These maggots are the produce of small spotted phalaenae.
Apple-trees in high bloom; in danger from the frost.
Some ponds, & ditches dry, & cleansed out.
Honey-suckles against the walls begin to blow. Early tulips blown-out: late begin to turn colour.
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