My tall, streight Beech at the E. corner of Sparrow’s hanger, from a measurement taken by Rich. Becher & son, proves to be exactly 74 feet & 1/2 in in height. The shaft is about 50 feet without a bough.
My well is very low; & the stream from Gracious street almost dry.
Bror Ben & wife came. Put my fine hyacinths into a bed, that were taken-up in the summer. Put also some good tulips, & striped crocus’s from Bro: Thos’s garden into beds.
Men sow wheat; but wish for more rain to moisten their fallows. The quantity of potatoes planted in this parish was very great, & the produce, on ground unused to that root, prodigious. David Long had two hundred bushels on half an acre. Red or hog potatoes are sold for six pence pr bushel. Mr Churton left us & went to Waverley: Nep. Tom & Harry left us, & went to Fyfield.
Wheat not so good as last year: 50 sheaves do not yield more than forty did this time twelvemonth.
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