Finding my first seed did not grow, which I easily imagined was by the drought, I sought for a moister piece of ground to make another trial in, and I dug up a piece of ground near my new bower, and sowed the rest of my seed in February, a little before the vernal equinox; and this having the rainy months of March and April to water it, sprung up very pleasantly, and yielded a very good crop; but having part of the seed left only, and not daring to sow all that I had, I had but a small quantity at last, my whole crop not amounting to above half a peck of each kind.
Cuando me di cuenta de que las semillas no germinaban, pude intuir fácilmente que era a causa de la sequía, de modo que busqué un terreno más húmedo para hacer otro experimento. Aré un trozo de tierra cerca de mi emparrado y sembré el resto de las semillas en febrero, un poco antes del equinoccio de primavera.