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printed proforma "An Account of Work done in Ampthill Nursery from .. to.." filled in for Monday June 10th to Saturday June 15th 1816

Jun 1816

From: 1816 To: 1816

space for names of 9 men, their work on every day of the week, and wages, filled in. endorsed with part of report of Philip Quirke, presumably the foreman, on work done. Caterpillars on fruit trees. You will find a great loss in the crops dressed with the prepared compost manure … but one bean coming up in the row the compost was put on, and 70 beans up and growing well on the next row. The potatoes dressed with it have rotted in the ground. West gets on with the drain in the Warren etc. [torn]

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Gibbs, Thomas,
Quirke, Philip,
West

AMPTHILL, market gardening nurseries, employment, labourer, wages, foreman, gardening, caterpillars, fruit trees, crops, manuring, beans, potatoes, DRAINAGE, warrens, Ampthill Warren