June 21, 1789

Posted by sydney on Jun 21st, 1789

Vines begin to blossom: corn-flags blow.  My brother trenched his field, & sowed it with barley: but the corn seems as if it would be too big, & begins already to lodge.  My brother has set up a may-pole 55 feet in height: it is constructed out of two slender deal-spars, & for support cramped to the corner of a garden wall.

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