observations-noting

Updated: May 5, 2025

It may be guessed, too, that here, as at Monticello, he made his usual observations-noting in his diary the temperature, jotting down in the garden-book which he kept for thirty years an item or two about the planting of vegetables, and recording, as he continued to do for eight years, the earliest and latest appearance of each comestible in the Washington market.

Allen Johnson - Jefferson and His Colleagues; a chronicle of the Virginia dynasty