Thomas Jefferson Papers : Garden Book, page 9 by Thomas Jefferson

Garden Book, page 9
by Thomas Jefferson

Page 9

[1772]

*park-paling, every other pale high, the tall pales to have 5 nails. the low one 4. nails is worth but 30/ the 100. yds., out and out. calculated by Skip Harris.

*a coach & six will turn in 80. feet.

Octob. 8.

gathered 2. plumb-peaches at Monticello.

Nov. 12.

*William Gillum sais it will take a bushel of Lime-stone (which he sais is equal to 2. bushels of slacked lime) to a perch of stonework 18. I. thick. -- but Anderson sais 3. bushels of Lime.

*in making the Round-about walk, 3 hands would make 80. yds. in a day in the old feild, but in the woods where they had stumps to clear, not more than 40. & sometimes 25. yds.

Cite web page as: Garden Book, 1766-1824, page 9, by Thomas Jefferson [electronic edition]. Thomas Jefferson Papers: An Electronic Archive. Boston, Mass. : Massachusetts Historical Society, 2003. http://www.thomasjeffersonpapers.org/

Original manuscript: Jefferson, Thomas. Garden Book, 1766-1824. 66 pages. Original manuscript from the Coolidge Collection of Thomas Jefferson Manuscripts, Massachusetts Historical Society.

Source of transcription: Baron, Robert C., ed. The Garden and Farm Books of Thomas Jefferson. Golden, Colo. : Fulcrum, 1987.