Ornshagen
Ornshagen lies at the confluence of the Paatziger and Rega Rivers and both have dams near the village.
Photos by Joanne Becker 2002.
The River Rega near Ornshagen. Photo by David Wendt.
Hermann and Augusta Heller Schlueter with my grandmother Emma about
1890. Photo of David Wendt.
This is a transcription of a Gartenarbeitbuch that my great grandfather Hermann Schlueter kept while he was the
groundskeeper/gardener at an estate called Ornshagen, Kr. Regenwalde, Pommern in the 1860s. (It's interesting to note that he was
only 14-16 years old at the time!) Some of the pages are German/English, others English only. The original translation was done
by a Lutheran minister many years ago, so some of the plant names may not be too accurate!
Note the variety of plants he mentions, including strawberries, asparagus, celery, various fruits and berries, and the number of
decorative plants. Ornshagen must have been a beautiful place while he was there! They also must have eaten well, though we don’t know how
much of this his family got to eat and how much “The Master” got. The references to “Lehmann” and “Greve” are presumably neighbors or
other workers. The family emigrated in 1868 and homesteaded in Nebraska. GARTENARBEIT 1863 Monat Mai/Month of May 1. Wruken und Gruenkohl gesaet und Erdbeeren reingemacht Seeded wruken and broccoli and cleaned the strawberries 2. Erdbeeren und Hinbeeren reingemacht Cleaned the strawberries and blackberries 3. Wege reingemacht, Blumenkohl und Wuersingkohl gepflantz und Grippen gegraben Cleaned the trails, planted cauliflower and wuersingkohl and dug ditches 4. (No entry) 5. Wege reingemacht und Grippen gepflantz und gegraben Cleaned the trails, planted werbeno and dug ditches (German transcription isn't clear) 6. Erde in Mistbekasten gebracht und Grippen u. Opalis gesaet Put dirt into the compost box and sowed opals 7. Blumenkohl, Spinat u Wuersingkohl gepflantz Planted cauliflower, spinach and wuersingkohl 8. Gruppen gegraben Dug ditches 9. Giorginen u. Weizen gesaet. Gurken u. Melonen gepflantz Sowed giorginen and wheat, planted cucumbers and melons 10. (No entry) 11. Gegraben und Kreigbohnen gesaet Dug ditches and sowed kreig beans (kug beans?) 12. Wege reingemacht und Bohnen (gesaet) Cleaned trails and sowed kug beans 13-15. Wege reingemacht Cleaned paths 16. Gewittert Stormed 17. Erbsen bestreuchelt und Salad gepflantz Staked the peas and planted lettuce 18. Gurken gesaet. Weizen und Mais gedroshcen und Rasen gemaeht Planted cucumbers. Threshed corn and wheat and mowed the lawn 19. (No entry) 20. Bohnen und Blumenkohl gesaet Planted beans and cauliflower 21. Perstagbohnen gelegt und Weisskohl gesaet Laid perstag (?) Beans and white cabbage (sic) 22. Blumensamen und Wurshingkohl gepflantzt Sowed cauliflower seed and planted wursingkohl 23. Wege reingemacht und Stiefmuetterchen gesaet Cleaned paths and sowed daisies/pansies 24-26 (No entry) 27. Einege Warmhauspflanzen ausgepflantzt, naemlich dragonen, ginsiggruen, zigarus, marantes, caladiums, kanchas and palms Planted some hothouse plans, namely... 28. Caladiums, Kaiwas und Climatis gepflantz Planted caladiums, kaiwas and clematis 29. Pflanzen aus dem Haus genommen und Fuchspar ausgepflantzt Took houseplants outside and planted fuchspar 30. Parlagonien und Tymerphis ausgepflantz. Nelken und Cellerie gepflantzt. Put out parlagonien and tymerphis (sic). Planted cloves and celery Juni 1863 1. Blumensamen gesaet und Kohlrabi gepflantzt Sowed flower seeds and planted kohlrabi 2. Blumensamen im Mistbeet gesaet Planted flower seeds in the hot bed 3. Cynlirogeums ausgepflantzt Planted helitroguns 4. Fuchspar, Rusens and Palargonien ausgepflantzt. Planted fuchspar, kuvers and palargonien 5. Erdbeeren und Spargel reingemacht Cleaned the strawberries and asparagus 6. Moos um die Erdbeeren gelegt und Fuchsia ausgepflantzt Laid moss on the strawberries and planted fuchsias 7. (No entry) 8. Myrten und Orangen Baeume fest gemacht Staked the myrtle and orange trees 9. Pflanzen an den Steig gesetzt, Tisch und Baenke im Garten gesetzt Placed plants along the drive (?), put table and benches in the garden 10. Wege und Hinbeeren reingemacht Cleaned the paths and blackberries 11. Werbenen und Monats Rosen (Tended) the verbena and monthly (sic) roses 12. Himonem einglegt und im neuen Mistbekasten eingefuettert Put ochinens (sic) in the new hot bed and fertilized them 13. Rasen gemaeht und Bohnen gehackt Mowed the lawns and hoed the beans 14-15 (No entry) 16. Staendengewaechs reingemacht Cleaned the pond 17. Wein beschnitten Pruned the grape(vines) 18. Wein beschnitten 19. Gruppen und Gurken reingemacht Cleaned graupen (sic) and cucumbers 20. Gurken und Bohnen reingemacht Cleaned the cucumbers and beans 21. (No entry) 22. Rote Rueben reingemacht Cleaned the beets 23. Wrucken gepflantzt u. Kohl gehackt Planted wruken and hoed the beans 24. Einege Wege mit Kies uegergefahren Spread some of the paths with gravel 25. Wege reingemacht und Kohl gehackt Cleaned the paths and hoed the beans 26. ------Leeskeuen gepflantzt (Cleaned the paths and) planted Leeskeuen 27. Einige Blumenpflanzen gepflantzt Planted some blooming flowers 28. Klares Wetter Clear weather 29. Wege reingemacht Cleaned paths 30. Rasen gemaeht Mowed the lawns July 1863 1. Transplanted ivy; a thunderstorm came up. 2. Planted asters and balsamines. 3. Planted greenkohl (broccoli) and picked Krup peas for seed. 4. Heaped up corn, beans and wheat 5. A dark day, and a thunderstorm 6. Tied up the giorgienen and heaped up (added dirt to?) the cabbage. 7. Picked cherries and peas. 8. Cleaned the paths and the cucumbers. 9. Canned summer vegetables. 10. Picked cherries and cleaned the tree school (nursery?). 11. Picked raspberries and peas. 12. Clear weather. 13. Canned asparagus. 14. Picked strawberries and gooseberries. 15. Cleaned the nursery. 16. Canned strawberries. 17. Picked gooseberries and cherries. 18. Threshed krup peas for seed. 19. A dark day. 20. Tied up the grape and virsich vines (peach tree limbs?) 21. Tied up grape and virsich vines. 22. Tied up the peach trees. 23. Trimmed apple, cherry and pear trees. 24. Trimmed plum and pear trees. 25. Trimmed apple trees and picked currants. 26. (No entry) 27. Trimmed apple trees and mowed lawn. 28. Picked peaches and currants. 29. Cleaned groats and cherries. 30. Mowed lawn and gathered wrucken seed. 31. Picked cherries and gooseberries. August 1863 1. Mowed lawn and did some spading. 2. Trimmed roses and apple and pear trees. 3. Tied up the giorginen. 4. Picked cherries, gooseberries and currants. 5. Tied up the peach, apricot and cherry tries. 6. Trimmed the roses and chestnut trees. 7. Got some cabbage seed, and picked asparagus for seed. 8. Cleaned raspberries and paths. 9. (No entry) 10. Mowed lawn and cleaned strawberry patch. 11. Mowed lawn. 12. Tied up various vines. 13. Cleaned grape peach and rose gardens. 14. Cleaned paths. 15. Cleaned paths. 16. (No entry) 17. Cleaned paths and orchard. 18. Picked peas for seed. 19. Cleaned paths in the park. 20. Cleaned paths and tree nursery. 21. Cleaned paths. 22. Mowed lawn and transplanted various plants. 23. Same. 24. (No entry) 25. Mowed lawn and put plants in front of the master's house. 26. Put gravel in front of the master's house. 27. Hauled gravel to the back park. 28. Cleaned the paths. 29. Cleaned the nursery and tied up the peach trees. 30 (No entry) 31. Canned strawberries and raspberries and trimmed hedge. September 1863 1. Picked a few krup beans and peas for seed. 2. Canned some kitchen greens and transplanted pelargonien. 3. Transplanted cyprus (sic) and cleaned the border or hedge of the orchard. 4. Transplanted plants and trimmed the hedges. 5. Cleaned saddle spurs and belongings and hoed the green kale. 6. (No entry) 7. Cleaned some seed. 8. Took up some seed and pulled pea vines. 9. Cleaned the rose nursery and mowed the park meadow. 10. Cleaned the paths in the orchard. 11. Mowed lawn and cleaned the flower garden. 12. Cleaned the paths. 13. (No entry) 14. Emptied a few hotbed boxes and planted werbenen (verbena?). 15. Filled up the boxes againand planted werbenen. 16. Transplanted some plants. 17. Put up some lettuce and kale seed and pruned the raspberry vines. 18. Planted some plants. 19. Transplanted a few hothouse plants and pulled the ripe krup beans. 20. (No entry) 21. Transplanted hothouse plants and picked carrot seed. 22. Transplanted hothouse plants. 23. Hauled peat and dug potatoes. 24. Hauled peat and gathered onion seeds. 25. Dug Lehman's potatoes. 26. Dug potatoes. 27. (No entry) 28. Cleaned the hothouse and picked parsley seed. 29. Mowed lawn and dug potatoes. 30. Put the myrrh trees and orange trees into the hothouse. October 1863 1. Transplanted some plants and mulched them. 2. Planted some plants and fixed up the hotbed box. 3. Dug Teltov turnips & transplanted a few plants and mulched them. 4. (No entry) 5. Planted Girnergums & gathered some flower seeds. 6. Cut potted plants and planted the cuttings. 7. Hauled peat. 8. Hauled peat. 9. Cut seeds out of the cucumbers. 10. Picked apples and hauled peat. 11. (No entry) 12. Picked apples and pears and hauled peat. 13. Dug Moruben (turnips?) & put some plants into hot house. (*carrots?) 14. Cut Malven and cane, i.e. bamboo 15. Fixed a hot-bed box & brought in some hot-house plants. 16. Picked pole beans for seed & pulled the pea vines. 17. Planted Fuchspar and shelled peas 18. (No entry) 19. Dug parsley and Runkel-turnips, planted Pelargonien & Fuschspar and brought them into the house. 20. Brought some plants into the house. 21. Picked basswood and Berbers seed, and sheltered seed plants. 22. Took up Kohl (cabbage) & brought plants into the house. 23. Cleaned the roads. 24. Cleaned the roads and asparagus. 25. Clear weather 26. Cut the white cabbage. Dug brussels sprouts, put it into the garden,------Borre and celery were dug and thrown into a ditch. 27. Dug Wruben, Georginen & Oscalis. Planted Kanna & Kaladiums. 28. Raked leaves. Brought Werbennen into house, threshed Wruken seed. 29. Raked leaves and brought garden tools into tool house. 30. Cleaned the ditches and raked leaves. 31. Cleaned roads and harvested the corn. November 1863 1. A dark day. Hoed some land. Planted grapevine shoots. Trimmed the grape vine and tied it up. 2. (No entry) 3. Trimmed grape vine & shelled corn. 4. Shelled corn & planted grape vines. 5. Searched for Rose stems and cleaned Pelbargonien seed. 6. Fertilized the grape vines. 7. Fertilized the grape vines. 8. It was 7 degrees cold this A.M., Noon. 4 d,.A. 3 degrees colder. 9. Cut the Rhododendrons down, covered water tanks, tied the Philums together & covered them,& cut down a few roses. 10. Raked leaves and covered the ????? ditch. 11. Got a spruce branch. 12. Cut a juniper tree. Hoed some ground & trimmed roses. After this date there is a page missing -then- 29. In A.M. it was 2 degrees. At noon 1 1/2 degrees, At 3d(?) 30. The Piones among the spruce trees stuffed with leaves, and then covered the roses with leaves. December 1863 1. Covered the roses with leaves, tied the taxus together & covered them with leaves. 2. Covered artichokes and asparagus and raked leaves. 3. Raked leaves. 4. Raked leaves. 5. Raked leaves. 6. In A. M. 2 1/2 degrees warm, noon 3 degrees, evening 3 degrees warm. 7. Raked leaves. Dug and fertilized --, hyacinth and tulip beds cleaned. 8. Spaded some land, collected some tree seeds and pine cones. 9. Sowed some tree seeds, cut dry limbs out of the peach trees, dug out some hidden peach shoots and planted them into a hotbed. 10. Hoed some ground, cut dry wood out of the peach trees. Sowed some miraka and singfloria asparagus. 11. Hoed the cabbage bed, went and got some cane (bamboo?) from Regenwalde, also got some gruppenragold (sic). 12. A new greizzeragold (sic). [I have no idea what this might be.] 13. At noon 0 degrees, in evening 2 degrees cold. 14. Covered the peach and apricots with cane and cleaned the hortensin. 15. Hoed land and hauled manure. 16. Hoed land and gathered the pea vines together into the forest. 17. Gathered the sprigs together in the forest and raked leaves. 18. Dug asparagus beds and cleaned a few hotbed boxes. 19. Shelled pole beans and covered the peach trees. 20. In AM 4 degrees warm, noon 4 degrees, evening 3 degrees warm. 21. Covered the peaches, cedrus deadorus and climbing roses of the porch. Spaded land for carrots and spinach and sealed the gap in front of the peach trees. 22. Shelled the krup beans and got a shrub. 23. Covered the climbing roses and clematis in the flower garden with cane. Covered the seed wruken with leaves and cleaned the hotbed. 24. Got a tree branch and cleaned the houses. 25. Christmas Day. AM 3 degrees warm, got warmer at noon, 4 degrees warm, and by evening 3 degrees warm. 26. AM 3 degrees warm, noon 4 deg warm, evening 3 deg warm. 27. AM 3 d., noon 4 1/2 d w, evening 3 d. 28. Hauled nine loads of horse manure to Trieb Sprengel. 29. Hauled ashes onto the park lawn and trimmed the junipers. 30. Raked the leaves from the asparagus, dug two ditches 3 feet deep and filled them with manure. Made a hotbox, filled it with leaves and banked it with dirt. 31. Hauled leaves to the asparagus, sealed the garden house door with sawdust. January 1864 1. In AM 8 deg cold, noon 2 deg cold, evening 12 deg cold (about 10 F) 2. Hauled ashes onto the mowed lawn and trimmed the juniper tree. 3. In AM 18 deg cold (about 0 F), at noon 5 deg cold, evening 14 deg cold. 4. Covered the grape vines with peat moss, the wakonien with leaves. 5. Hauled 4 loads of manure to the asparagus beds and piled it up there. 6. Hauled ashes into the Schmitthaken and dirt to the flowers in the lawn. 7. Hauled dirt into the Schmitthaken and onto the great lawn. 8. Hauled manure into the orchard and fixed the second asparagus bed. 9. (No entry) 10. In AM 5 deg cold, at noon 2 deg cold, in evening 13 deg cold (about 9 F) 11. Hauled ashes into the Schmitthaken. 12. Hauled clay dirt to the asparagus bed. 13. Hauled clay dirt into orchard and cut twigs (reeds?) From the pond for pea stakes.. 14. Cut willow twigs at the pond for pea stakes. 15. Hauled rotted manure to the asparagus and cut poplars at the pond. 16. Hauled clay dirt into orchard and cleaned houses. 17. In AM 17 deg cold (about 1 F), at noon 9 deg and in evening 13 deg cold (9 F). 18. Covered the peach stones in hotbed with dung; cut and hauled bean poles. 19. Cleaned up the bean poles. 20. Cleaned up the bean poles. 21. Cleaned beanpoles, looked after first asparagus bed; cut two dry trees behind Regel and cut them up. 22. Cleaned bean poles. 23. Cleaned and peeled bean poles. 24. In AM 0 (32 F), at noon 3 deg warm, in evening 1 deg cold. 25. Peeled bean poles, raked soil in flower garden, trimmed the spruce hedge around the lawn and looked after the asparagus bed. 26. Peeled beanpoles and hauled clay dirt to the Rebetten (sic). 27. Hauled clay dirt to the Rebettern, trimmed juniper, essig and apple trees. 28. Rubbed out carrot seed, trimmed plum trees in orchard and hauled dirt into the Schmitthaken. 29. Made four hot bed covers and rubbed out carrot seed. 30. Rubbed out carrot seed and sifted it. Looked after asparagus bed, cut tree poles 7 and 8 feet long and peeled them. 31. In AM 7 deg cold (19 F), at noon 0, in evening 5 deg cold. February 1864 1. Hauled clay dirt into the orchard. Rubbed out carrot seed. Cut 7-8' poles, peeled the bark off and pointed them (for pea or bean poles). 2. Looked at the asparagus, hauled clay dirt into the orchard, made more bean poles. 3. (No entry) 4. Rubbed out carrot seed, hauled clay dirt into orchard, peeled bean poles. 5. Hauled ashes into the Schmitthaken. Pointed bean poles. 6. Rubbed carrot seed, pointed pea poles, trimmed orchard trees. 7. In AM 3 deg cold (27 F), at noon 0, in evening -1. 8. Hauled bog dirt to the early marigolds, pointed pea poles and looked at the asparagus. 9. Hauled manure for Lehman and hauled peat moss for the new groats beds. 10. Fixed peat moss, sawed pins for harrow and zinked (?) Flower pins and rakes. 11. Cut pins for wooden rake and hauled a load of limbs. 12. Hauled a load of limbs, cut away the old parsley stems and trimmed the willows in the pond garden. 13. Cut rake pins, trimmed orchard trees. 14. In AM 2 d warm, noon 4 d warm, evening 3 d warm. 15. Hauled manure for Lehman. Trimmed gooseberry and orchard trees in the landlord's orchard. 16. Hauled manure for Lehman. Fixed a few new trellises among the fruit trees, trimmed and bound up the fruit trees. 17. Hauled manure for Lehman. Dug up raspberry runners and transplanted them and some grapes. 18. Cleaned the oxalis and fixed trellis for raspberries; cut asparagus. 19. Cleaned the oxalis and cut wooden numbers. 20. Cut wooden numbers, cut down a willow at the bridge and cut it into firewood; hauled two loads of sawdust from the mill. 21. In AM 6 deg cold (21 F), at noon 3 deg warm, in evening 1 deg warm. 22. Dug up a dead beech tree at Gense Maenchen (mansion?), cut it for firewood, and cut wooden numbers. 23. Cut wooden numbers and cut down a dry limb in the park. 24. Sharpened pea sticks and checked the asparagus. 25. Cut dry limbs in the park and piled them up. 26. Repaired trellises and sharpened pea sticks. 27. Dub up raspberry runners and transplanted some; trimmed raspberries and tied them up. 28. In AM 0, at noon 3 deg warm (39 F), evening 1 deg warm. 29. Took apart a hotbed and rebuilt it. Checked the asparagus, tied up the raspberries. 30. Raked flat the mole heaps in the park. March 1864 1. Put manure into a 4 x 3 hotbed box and laid the window on it. Took apart a 6-window box and rebuilt it. Collected ligustgrumfulgaris stalks and put them in orchard. 2. Took a 3-window hotbed box apart and rebuilt it. Picked up dry wood in the park and brought it home. 3. Sifted the hotbed dirt, then rebuilt a two-window hotbed box. Raked leaves, dug a new ditch and hauled dirt to rhododendron apontikum. 4. (No entry) 5. Raked leaves, hauled two loads of bog soil to the new rhododendrons. 6. In AM 0, at noon 1 1/2 deg warm, evening 0 deg. 7. Raked leaves, put poles on the trees in the orchard and tied them on. Fixed irrigation ditches and checked the asparagus. 8. Seeded the hotbeds, in one radishes, lettuce and ivy shoots. In another, beans, white kale, cauliflower and celery. Arranged borre and chestnut shoots. Uncovered seed ditches and hauled bog dirt to the new group. 9. Trimmed pear trees, dug out chestnut trees. Hauled dirt from the mill to the dirt heap. Pulled lettuce plants near the new horse stable and planted them in the new hotbed. 10. Arranged decorative plants in the nursery. Planted budded chestnut shoots into the nursery and took some of the dirt from the flower garden and put it around the potted plants. 11. Planted chestnuts and basswood into the nursery. 12. Got beer pseudo platanus (?) From Regenwalde and planted it in the nursery. 13. In AM 0 deg, noon 4 deg warm, in evening 1 deg warm. 14. Planted rodenea pseudo acacia and aesculus hipocastanum into the nursery and trimmed the pear trees. 15. Checked the apsaragus, uncovered the grape vines, spaded around the pear borders and trimmed apple trees and currant bushes. 16. Uncovered grape vines and roses in the hot house. 17. Trimmed apple trees, arranged pseudo platanus in the nursery; covered the grape vines and roses with twigs in the Rega nursery. 18. Sharpened pea stakes. Hauled dung out of the first asparagus ditch and dug asparagus beds. 19. Dug asparagus beds and spaded ground in the orchard. 20. Palm Sunday. In AM 6 deg cold, noon 6 deg warm, evening 3 deg cold. 21. Uncovered the roses and prunus laurocersu in the tree nursery and took the pine needles off the pioniarboreru(?). Uncovered the water tanks. 22. Uncovered water tanks, put leaves into some hotbeds and put manure into them. Took peaches and apricot seedlings out of the hotbeds and planted them in a small space near the horse barn. 23. Uncovered the roses, took the cane rods off the climbing vines and roses. Hauled old building clay away and crushed the old shrubs from Potsdam. 24. Uncovered roses and prunun laurocerusus. 25. In AM 2 deg warm, noon 10 deg warm (50 F), evening 3 deg warm. 26. Put dirt into the hotbed box, uncovered rhododendrons, cleaned houses. 27. EASTER SUNDAY. Planted beans. In AM 0, at noon 6 deg warm, evening 4 deg warm. 28. In AM, 1 deg warm, noon 6 deg warm, evening 0. 29. Pulled the climbing roses from the peach and apricot trees, took the pruns (sic) off the branch at the master's house and cut some rake tines. 30. Cut flower stakes and rake tines. 31. Uncovered peaches and apricots near the new horse stable and in the
corner spot. Put up the canes for climbing roses and uncovered the
climbing roses on the veranda. Hauled the leaves that covered the
rhododendrons near f. into one pile April 1864 1. Checked the asparagus for the last time. Scraped the middle ditch of the 3rd and 4th quarter. Sharpened pea stakes. Took a sprig of the rose
in the school down. Sowed some flower seeds, celery, lorry and machram into the hot bed. 2. Uncovered the roses, prumus, aurodrasus and rhododentron ponticum and hoed the ground. Cleaned and raked the flower garden. 3. In AM 0, at noon 5 deg warm (41 F), evening 7 deg warm. 4. Got the wruken seed out and took it to the Schamgenjung Haus (?), then dug asparagus beds. Spaded quarters in the orchard. 5. Spaded out the last asparagus ditch, then dug asparagus beds. 6. Hauled gravel into the park and tied up the hortensians. 7. Hauled gravel into the park, dug the border of the strawberries behind the juniper tree; cut stakes for the flowers. 8. Tied up the hortensiens. 9. Hauled gravel into the park, hauled manure to the roses and near the new horse stable. Then sorted seeds (here he lists about a dozen different types). 10. In AM 0, at noon 9 deg warm (48 F), evening... 11. Dug around the raspberries and spaded the orchard. 12. Spaded under the plum trees in the orchard, sowed some peas and carrots, planted Saubohnen (pig beans). 13. Planted yellow potatoes and planted peach, apricot and cherry trees from Potsdam. Transplanted strawberries from the hot bed. 14. Spaded around the peach trees, gooseberries and kitchen greens. Sowed onion, parsley, lettuce, spinach, turnips and carrots. 15. Spaded the orchard and planted strawberries. 16. Planted strawberries and a maple tree along the Regenwalder road. 17. In AM 1 deg warm, noon 10 deg warm (50 F), evening 2 deg warm. 18. Spaded the land for beans in the orchard and raked the flower garden. 19. Sowed peas and carrots in the master's garden; dug the garden near the pond and planted potatoes; put dung into the windowed hot bed. 20. REPENTANCE DAY. In AM 0, noon 10 deg warm, evening 20 deg warm (68 F) 21. Dug garden for the Greves, sowed wruken and morueben. 22. Hauled Lehman's manure and planted his field potatoes. 23. Planted beans and potatoes near the blacksmith shop, sowed some seeds. 24. In AM 7 deg warm, noon 10 deg warm, evening 6 deg warm. 25. Took a branch off the peonies, tied up the roses in front of the master's house, dug Greve's garden and seven ditches in the Schmittthaken, sifted soil for the hotbed, planted the shrubs from Potsdam along the big ditch. 26. Planted a spruce near the bath house. Planted a pine tree and flory (sic) shrubs along the small ditch and raked the dirt in the Schmitthaken. 27. Cut flower stakes, planted lettuce and radishes for seed, mixed peat and clay for the roses. 28. Put budded roses into the tree school (nursery?) And planted roses. 29. Planted wild roses into the tree school. Planted balsamine and raspberries near the beech tree in the orchard. 30. Tied up the roses in the garden and the nursery. May 1864 1. In AM 0, noon 7 deg warm, evening 1 deg cold. 2. Sowed ten spots of onions, spinach, lettuce, runkelrueben in orchard. 3. Spaded the quarters near the rose school and the horse stable. Hoed strawberries and raspberries. Sowed wruken and kale in the master's garden. Sowed three beds of wruken in the pond garden Checked and measured the asparagus beds. 4. Planted the remaining seeds, hoed strawberries; spaded and raked our front door garden. 5. ASCENSION DAY. In AM 2 deg cold, noon 7 deg warm, evening 9 deg cold (16 F). 6. Cleaned and spaded the birch road banks; scattered gravel in park. 7. Cleaned the master's flower garden and the hot bed. 8. In AM 8 deg warm, noon 7 deg warm, evening 2 deg warm. 9. Tied up the grape vines, planted potatoes and raked leaves. 10. Spaded the edges of the park and raked leaves. 11. Put manure into the 6-windowed hot bed and put dirt over it right away. Put manure into the achinen box and sowed some tree seeds into a box. 12. Spaded the small tree school. 13. Spaded the big tree school, cleaned the paths in the orchard and planted melons and cucumbers. 14. Transplanted timian, sowed some flower seeds in the hot bed. 15. PENTECOST. IN AM 12 deg warm, noon 21 deg warm, evening 7 deg warm. 16-17. Temperatures. 18. Hauled manure into the orchard and spaded part of it. 19. Spaded part of the orchard, planted kidney beans, trimmed the box tree in the nursery. 20. Planted pole, pearl and kidney beans. Sowed artichokes, black carrots and peas. Spaded part of the orchard. 21. Sowed cucumbers and beans, sowed oat-carrots, tomatoes , carrots, onions and turnips. 22. (Temperatures) 23. Dug ditches in the leaf garden and dismantled the old pump works. 24. Sowed flowers and dug rose ditches. 25. Planted Greve's garden, pruned the roses, dug rose ditches and cut flower sticks. 26. Planted various flowers and cleaned the roses in the master's (?) garden. 27. Planted various herbs and vegetables 28. Dug the ditches near the goose pen and sowed them with summer plants. Sowed a few things around the master's house. 29. (Temperatures) 30. Mowed lawn. Piled dirt on the peas and onions. 31. Staked the peas and mowed the lawn June 1864 1. Took some plants out of the old house and planted telargonia, bowarden, helioteog, kufea and fucshspar. 2. Planted pelargonias and tied up the plants in the house. Took the ivy out and tied them up at the Steeingartie (sic) at the creek. 3. Spaded Greve's garden for cabbage, heaped two beds of golden peas and staked them. Weeded the onions. 4. Planted white kale. Transplanted peoargonias and wiegelien and worked at the pump works. 5. Beautiful weather. 6. Hauled hay home. Took roses out of the hot bed and planted them. Transplanted various flowers. Weeded the carrots and hoed the potatoes. Put manure into three-window hotbed. 7. Sifted the hotbed dirt, weeded the orchard, worked at the pump works. 8. Hoed potatoes in east quarter, worked at the pump works. 9. Put dirt on the dungheap, cleaned paths in park and checked the water pipes. 10. Cleaned the paths behind the Rega and in the back park. Planted melons. 11. Cleaned paths behind the Rega. Freshened up the bean box and planted melons in it. 12. Beautiful weather. 13. Watered the rose school (hot house?), fixed the ditches for kaladiums. 14. Planted the large fuchspar, cleaned the strawberries. 15. Took a few plants to the Gooseman (sic) and Kanna. Planted kaladium, musa, jimergum and adropgom. Spaded Greve's garden and cleaned the cabbage and raspberries. 16. Planted several kinds of vegetable in Greve's garden and in the pond garden: Maranta, dates, almonds and amaryllis. 17. Took summer plants out of the hothouse; planted asters, etc. 18. Planted summer plants. 19. A dark day. 20. Planted fig trees. Heaped dirt on Lehman's potatoes and on those in the pond garden. Cleaned strawberries and peonies. Cleaned ditches. 21. Trimmed the grape vines. 22. Trimmed grape vines, cleaned the cucumber, carrot and raspberry patches. 23. Cleaned the cucumbers and beans; hoed Lehman's potatoes. 24. Hoed Lehman's potatoes; cleaned lorre, celery, maihrom and beans. 25. Trimmed grape vines, cleaned onions; hoed cabbage in Lehman's garden. 26. A dark, dreary day. 27. Mowed lawn. Heaped dirt on the pole beans. Put pelargonia shoots into ground. Hoed krup beans; planted asters and lavken near the cabbage rows. 28. Mowed lawn in leaf garden, cleaned tree school. 29. Trimmed the edges in the flower garden. Tied up the porich vines, mowed lawn. 30. Sorted achimenen(?), got garden tools out, cleaned paths. Tied up porch vines. June 1864 1. Took some plants out of the old house and planted telargonia, bowarden, helioteog, kufea and fuchspar. 2. Planted pelargonias and tied up the plants in the house. Took the ivy out and tied it up at the Steeimgartie (sic) at the creek. 3. Spaded Greve's garden ground for cabbage, heaped two beds of golden peas and staked them,weeded the onions. 4. Planted white kale. Transplanted pelargonias and wiegelia and worked at the pump works. 5. Beautiful weather. 6. Hauled hay home. Took roses out of the hot bed and planted them. Transplanted various other plants. Weeded the carrots and hoed the potatoes. Put manure in the three-window hotbed. 7. Sifted the hotbed dirt, weeded the orchard and worked at the pump works. 8. Hoed potatoes in the east quarter (of the orchard), worked at the pump works. 9. Put dirt on the dung heap, cleaned paths in park and checked the water pipes. 10. Cleaned the paths behind the Rega and in the back park. Planted melons. 11. Cleaned paths behind the Rega. Freshened up the bean box and planted onions in it. 12. Beautiful weather. 13. Watered the rose school, fixed the ditches for kaladiums. 14. Planted the large fuchspar, cleaned strawberries. 15. Took a few plants to the Gooseman (sic) and Kanna (sic). Planted several types of flowers and spaded ground in Greve's garden. 16. Planted kale, celery, lorre in Greve's garden and in the pond garden. 17. Took summer plants out of the hot house, planted various flowers. 18. Planted summer plants. 19. A dark day. 20. Planted fig trees. Heaped dirt on Lehman's potatoes and in the pond garden. Cleaned strawberries, peonies and ditches. 21. Trimmed grape vines. 22. Trimmed grape vines, cleaned vegetable patches. Planted Lehman's wruken. 23. Cleaned the cucumbers and beans; hoed Lehman's potatoes. 24. Hoed Lehman's potatoes; cleaned vegetable patches. 25. Trimmed grape vines, cleaned onions, hoed cabbage in Lehman's garden. 26. A dark, dreary day. 27. Mowed lawn; put dirt on the pole beans. Put pelargonia shoots into the ground. Hoed beans. Planted asters and lavken near the cabbage rows. 28. Mowed lawn in leaf garden. Tied up the porch vines, mowed lawn. 29. Trimmed the borders of the flower garden. 30. Sorted achimenen, got garden tools out, cleaned paths. Tied up porch vines. JULY 1864 1. Stored away Achinera in sawdust packed in a hot bed box; mowed lawn. Hauled in hay and cleaned the tree school. 2. Mowed lawn , raked up the clippings, fixed up the place around goose pen. 3. Beautiful weather. 4. Mowed lawn. Cleaned a few ditches in Schmitthaken. 5. Mowed lawn. Cleaned ditches in Schmitthaken. Cultivated Lehman's potatoes, watered the roses in the rose school. 6. Cleaned the paths in the orchard. 7. Spaded the pond garden. 8. Cleaned the paths. Planted Asiatic celery in pond garden, hauled in the hay. 9. Cleaned paths and cleaned strawberries. 10. Clear weather. 11. Cleaned the back park, hoed cabbage, spaded the pond garden, planted cauliflower and cabbage immediately. 12. Weeded onions and spinach in Greve's garden. Watered the roses and peaches and the freshly planted groups in the Schmitthaken. 13. Trimmed trees in the east tree school. Weeded the carrots and runkelwrueben. 14. Cleaned two quarters at Rosesteige and cleaned a little in the tree school on the Rega. 15. Cleaned the little orchard tree school. Took up Hinriten and tulips. 16. Cleaned the tree school on the Rega. 17. Dark, dreary weather. 18. Picked cherries, heaped dirt onthe krup beans, cleaned asparagus. 19. Watered roses and peaches. Tied up vines and giorgines at the master's house. Cleaned ditches. 20. Cleaned ditches, hoed Lehman's wruken. 21. Cut down the verbena in the leaf garden and cleaned ditches 22. Picked cherries and peas. Cleaned the hot bed and ditches, tended the lawn around the chestnut tree lane. 23. Cleaned kitchen greens and the path at the chestnut walk. 24. A dark, dreary day. 25. Picked peas for seed, hoed cucumbers and strawberries. 26. Transplanted orange trees and cleaned strawberries. 27. Transplanted myrtle trees, cleaned raspberries, mowed Lehman's rye. 28. Cleaned plants for seed, heaped dirt on cabbage and watered peaches. 29. Watered the roses and trimmed grape vines. 30. Watered the roses, cleaned the small tree school, trimmed grape vines. 31. Clear weather. AUGUST 1864 1. Tied up the grapevines, cleaned the Schmitthaken ditches, picked raspberries, hauled Lehman's rye home. 2. Threshed Lehman's rye. Watered rose ditches in Schmitthaken. 3. Tied up grape vines. Cleaned the ditches in the park, spaded land in the pond garden, planted lettuce. 4. Tied up grape vines, hauled peat and dug potatoes. 5. Trimmed roses, hauled peat and dug potatoes. 6. Hauled peat, picked raspberries, spaded ground for kale and sowed turnip, lettuce, spinach and turnip seed in pond garden. 7. A dark and dreary day. 8. Picked cherries and currants. 9. Hauled peat and Lehman's rye; mowed lawn in B. Garden. 10. Planted kale, threshed Lehman's rye and took radish seed. 11. Mowed lawn, cleaned flower garden, cut dead rose buds off. 12. Dug potatoes, mowed lawn, picked gooseberries, beans and peas. 13. Mowed lawn , picked raspberries and currants and gathered wruken, kale and spinach seed. 14. A dreary day. 15. Mowed lawn and hauled Lehman's peat home. 16. Hauled peat for Lehman, mowed lawn and picked beans and gooseberries. 17. Mowed lawn, dug auricles, fertilized the land well, and spaded it. 18. Mowed lawn and planted the auricles. 19. Tied up the vines in front of the parony (sic) and put the remaining auricles in the ditches. 20. Cleaned seed peas and trimmed the roses. 21. A dreary day. 22. Cut the liligustrum hedges, trimmed the elder bushes and chestnut trees. 23. Trimmed the hedges and dug potatoes. 24. Trimmed the beech hedge, cleaned the onions in Greve's garden, trimmed Greve's grape vines, slaked lime for the hot house nursery. 25. Cleaned wruken, kale, spinach and posternak (sic) seed. 26. Trimmed the beech hedge and spaded the ground in fruit orchard. 27. Cleaned the paths in the back park. 28. Clear weather. 29. Trimmed the beech hedge and cleaned paths. 30. Tied up the peaches. 31. Tied up and peaches and picked peas for seed. SEPTEMBER 1864 1. Cleaned the paths at the hotbed and shelled peas. 2. Cleaned paths in the orchard and the roads, put plants on back porch. 3. Cleaned up the paths. 4. Clear weather. 5. Mowed lawn and fixed the old melon boxes for mulching. 6. Mowed lawn in flower garden and park meadow, hauled dirt away from house. 7. Mowed lawn, cleaned peas, hauled dirt from house with wheelbarrow. 8. Cleaned paths in the park and cleaned out the house. 9. Pulled the pea stakes and cleaned the canal. 10. Cleaned the greenhouse and the park paths. 11. Nice weather. 12. Dreary weather. 13. Worked at the house, planted and mulched pelargonias. 14. Worked at the house, planted pelargonias and prunus laucerusses. 15. Worked at the house, planted and mulched fennerarien, kalzealarien and heliotragen, and prepared shamm pelargonias for the box and mulching. 16. Worked at the house and canned strawberries. 17. Canned strawberries and worked around the house. 18. (No entry.) 19. Worked at the Treib House (hot house, greenhouse?), cleaned potatoes and dug carrots. 20. Worked at the T. House, raked land, picked the peas in Greve's garden for seed. 21. Worked at the T. House, cleaned potatoes and dug carrots. 22. Worked at the T. House, dug potatoes. 23. Worked at the T. House, cleaned the tree school at the Rega. 24. Worked at the T. House, cleaned the small tree school and raked the roads in the park clean. 25. Clear weather. 26. Worked at the T. House, dug the onions in Greve's garden and gathered carrot seed. 27. Worked at the T. House, picked krup and kidney beans for seed. Prepared an old melon box for planting and mulching priemlns and ipemopsis. 28. Worked at the T house. 29. Worked at the T house, dug Lehman's potatoes. 30. Worked at the T house. OCTOBER 1864 1. Worked at the T house, brought a few plants in. 2. Dreary weather. 3. Broughtr in the plants and worked with them. 4. Worked at the T house; took the large fuchspar from the ditch and planted it in the house. 5. Worked at the T house, brought the plants in and put them in order. 6. (Same) 7. Tied up the hortensiens. 8. Brought the plants out of the hotbed into the house. Cleaned up around the house, planted the alteure. Took the kaladiens from the ditches and planted them under the trellises in the hot house. 9. Clear weather. 10. Planted the hothouse plants, heliotrope, gufeen, howardien. 11. Picked the plums in Greve's garden; got mignonette seed and fixed and mulched two melon boxes for plants. 12. Picked seed off the tugo occidentalis and planted peliogoniens. 13. Planted verbonen. 14. Picked a few apples and pears; shelled peas. 15. Took up kannas, armorillus and gladiolus. Planted fuchspar and kardis in the fruit cellar. 16. Clear weather. 17. Took up the parsley, cleaned it, and arranged the plants in the house. 18. Dug potatoes near the pond and arranged things in the house. 19. Brought a few more plants into the house and put them in order. 20. Planted verbenen. 21. Cut cucumbers for seed, tidied up in the house, dug carrots. 22. Dug wrunkelruben. Put things in place in the house and cleaned up. 23. Dreary weather. 24. Cleaned the rose school, gathered porre (leeks?). 25. Cut cabbage and saved some for seed. Cleaned cucumber seed. 26. Picked apples, pears and plums. 27. Picked apples. Planted perlagonias, bought them into the cold box and mulched them. Fixed celery and porre, canned turnips. 28. Cleaned the hot house. Put the achimenen into the warm box and picked the last apples. 29. Put the hot bed window aside. Mowed garden. 30 In AM 4 deg cold, noon 4 deg. Cold, evening 2 deg cold. 31. Planted spring bulbs (hyacinths, tulips) in ground and pots. Took up the fig trees. NOVEMBER 1864 1. Raked leaves. 2. Raked leaves and got cane (bamboo?) from Regenwalde. 3. Raked leaves and gathered rotdoren seed. 4. Dug Lehman's wruken and cut the themeans. 5. Took the verbennen out of the hotbed and put them into the house. Cleaned the house and put the seed wruken in the 7th quarter into a ditch. 6. In AM 0 deg., noon 1 deg. Cold, evening 3 deg cold. 7. Put coal down in the cellar and cut some of the roses in the school. 8. Trimmed the grapes. 9. Laid the grape vines down. 10. Covered the cover ditches with leaves. Raked the paths. Cut juniper and spruce branches. 11. Cut rhododendrons down and hauled a load of spruce branches. 12. Hauled a load of spruce branches, two loads of juniper and covered the rhododendrons. 13. In AM 1 deg cold, noon 2 deg warm, evening 2 deg cold. 14. Cut down a few roses. Cleaned ditches and cut a few junipers. 15. Cut down a few roses. Cut up junipers and covered the roses in the flower garden with them. 16. Cut down roses and raked leaves. 17. Raked leaves and tied up the vittis in the flower garden. 18. Cut down roses, covered the trietrong, rhododendron and camiens and cut down the prunus Lauroda. 19. Cut down a few roses and covered the lawn with spruce branches. 20. In AM 2 deg warm, noon 2 deg warm, evening 3 deg warm. 21. Raked leaves, pulled bean stakes, cleaned up the artichoke beds. 22. Covered the water tanks and hauled a load of pine branches. 23. Covered the roses in the school. 24. Hauled a load of spruce branches and took a load of manure to the asparagus bed. 25. Covered the roses with leaves. 26. (Same) 27. In AM 0 deg, noon 2 deg warm, evening 3 deg cold. 28. Raked and hauled leaves. 29. Hauled leaves to the ditches and covered the artichokes with leaves. 30. Hauled leaves to the asparagus. Hoed land and got a box of plants. DECEMBER 1864. 1. Hauled leaves, hoed ground and planted the new plants. 2. Cleaned the asparagus and put on leaves, hoed the other side. 3. Raked leaves and tended to the porch. 4. In AM 4 1/2 deg cold, noon 4 deg cold, evening 5 deg cold. 5. Hauled the hotbed contents away and covered the vines at the master's house with cane rods. 6. Hauled the hotbed contents away and covered a few peach trees. Trimmed the grape vines in the garden and covered the water pipes with manure. 7. Hauled the hotbed contents away, put dung on the strawberries and fertilized the lawn. 8. Same as yesterday, then put some old manure on the tulips and hyacinths. 9. Raked and hauled leaves. 10. Hauled the last hotbed stuff away and hauled old building lime into the pond garden. 11. In AM 0 deg, noon 0 deg, evening 1 deg cold. 12. Trimmed raspberries and hauled old lime into the pond garden. 13. Covered the peach trees and hauled dirt into the park. 14. Covered peach trees and raked leaves. 15 Covered peach trees and raked leaves. 16. Dunged the peach trees, got pea straw and covered the taxtus in the flower garden. 17. Cleaned the greenhouse. 18. In AM 5 deg cold, noon 4 deg cold, evening 4 deg cold. 19. Cleaned out the acerneguncto. 20. Hauled dirt into the park, raked leaves. 21. Hauled manure to the asparagus. 22. Cleaned the hot house. 23. Hauled frozen manure to the asparagus. 24. Hauled manure to the fruit trees. 25. CHRISTMAS DAY. In AM 3 deg cold, noon 2 deg cold, evening 3 deg cold. 26. In AM 3 deg cold, noon 2 deg, evening 2 deg cold. 27-29. Hauled manure to the fruit trees in the orchard. 30. Fixed an asparagus bed to start plants and filled the box with leaves. 31. Fixed boxes for the other beds and put leaves in both. JANUARY 1865 1. In AM 3 deg cold, noon 2 deg cold, evening 5 deg cold. 2. Rubbed out carrot seed and hauled cinders to the path in the Schmitthaken. 3. Hauled cinders to the path in the Schmitthaken near the Rega and cut wooden numbers. 4. Hauled cinders and rubbed out carrot seed. 5. Hauled cinders, painted the numbers and sprinkling cans, rubbed out carrot seed. 6. Cut willows and cleaned the cabbage in the cellar. 7. Cleaned the cabbage in the cellar and hauled cinders. 8. Dreary weather. 9. Put manure into the third asparagus ditch. 10. Cut willows and put the hyacinths in a warm place. 11. Got Mariaboeckchen (pussy willows?) From the Rega, then hoed the land near the new stable and trimmed the cherry trees there. 12. Got some bean poles from the forest. 13. Peeled the bean poles and hauled sloe (sic) for the porch. 14. Cleaned the greenhouse. Dug up a big cherry tree at the new stable and planted it at our house. 15. A dreary day. 16. Peeled bean stakes. Dug up an acernegunde on the large lawn. 17. Dug up the other cherry trees near the new stable and planted them into the orchard. 18-20. Hauled some dirt to the lawn. 21. Hauled sawdust from the sawmill, looked after the asparagus, hauled dirt to the lawn. 22. In AM 4 deg cold, noon 1 deg warm, evening 5 deg cold. 23-27. Hauled dirt and ashes to the lawn. 28. Looked after the asparagus and hauled dirt to the lawn. 29. A dark day with some snow. 30-31. Hauled dirt to the lawn. FEBRUARY 1865 1. Hauled dirt to the lawn and tended the asparagus. 2. Hauled dirt and cleaned the greenhouse. 3-4. (No entry) 5. In AM 10 deg cold, noon 7 deg cold, evening 12 deg cold. 6. Hauled dirt to the lawn. 7. Same, and tended the asparagus. 8. Hauled dirt. 9. Cut rake tines and wiped off the opalis. 10. Shoveled snow in front of the houses and fixed up a hot bed box. 11. Hauled peat. 12. In AM 12 deg cold, noon 3 deg cold, evening 10 deg cold. 13. In AM 14 deg cold (7 deg F!) 14. In AM 22 deg cold (-8 F!) 15. Cleaned pelargonia seed. 16. Sowed kohlrabi and lettuce seed ina hotbed and cleaned up the fruit cellar. 17. Planted amaryllis into pots and wiped off the cabbage inthe cellar. 18. Sorted potatoes in the cellar and tidied up in the hothouse. 19. In AM 2 1/2 deg cold, noon 2 deg warm, evening 0. 20. Peeled bean poles and trimmed robinis pseudo acacia. 21. Cut raked tines and shoveled show. 22. Cleaned up the house and piled up horse manure. 23. Transplanted a few plants in the house and tended the asparagus. 24. Sorted achimenen and hauled cow manure into Greve's garden. 25. Sawed some wood, trimmed the acasias, transplanted plants in the house and peeled schleetes (sic).. 26. In AM 2 deg cold, noon 3 deg warm, evening 1 deg cold. 27. Peeled schleetes, hauled manure and trimmed acacias. 28. Peeled schleetes, transplanted anthenis and trimmed acacias. MARCH 1965 1. Cut stakes for the flowers. 2. Peeled stakes, put gladiolus, tuberoses and potatoes into pots, trimmed acacias and spruce hedges in Greve's garden. 3. Prepared the three hot beds, and prepared shoots to put in hot beds of fuschia, cupheen (sic)and ivy. 4. Sowed some cold house seeds, cut wooden numbers and checked the asparagus. 5. In AM 3 degrees cold, noon 3 d. Warm, in evening just 0 d. 6. Sifted dirt for the hot bed, peeled stakes and trimmed the hedge in Greve's garden. 7. Hauled dirt for the hot bed and peeled stakes. 8. Prepared one bed of asparagus. 9. Sowed lettuce, radish, carrot, cauliflower, wirsingkohl, kohlrabi, cucumber, melons, beans, etc. into hot bed. 10. Scraped out two ditches for asparagus on the 1 and 2 quarter; trimmed pear trees. 11. Scraped out the 3rd asparagus ditch and trimmed fruit trees. 12. In AM 2 d. Cold, noon 1 d. Warm, evening 1 d. Cold. 13. Trimmed gooseberry plants, peach and pear trees. 14. Peeled stakes and put tines into the rake. 15. Hauled dirt to the quarter near the new horse barn. 16. Trimmed the raspberries and prepared other asparagus beds. 17. Hauled dirt to the new stable and prepared a few cold house shoots. 18. Tidied up the greenhouse, tied up hortensiens and hauled ashes into the Schmitthaken. 19. In AM 9 d. Cold, noon 4 d. Cold, evening 8 d. Cold. 20. Tied up the hortensiens and hauled limbs. 21. Sharpened pea stakes and hauled baking limbs (firewood?). 22. Cut achimenen stakes and trimmed the porch vines. 23. Sharpened pea and achimenen stakes and trimmed porch vines. 24. (No entry) 25. Transplanted erica and trimmed the porch vines. 26. In AM 10 d. Cold, noon 2 d. Warm, evening 1 1/2 d. Cold. 27. Tied up the raspberries and hortienses. 28. Cut wood in the park. 29. Got a beech tree out of the park and pulled a few radishes. 30. Prepared a 4 window hot bed and hauled manure to the plum trees. 31. Sharpened pea stakes and got some lettuce. APRIL 1865 1. Got some pea stakes and sharpened them. 2. In AM 0 d., noon 5 d. Warm, evening just 0 again. 3. Transplanted beans and lettuce, prepared a 2-windowed box, looked after the asparagus and tied up raspberry vines. 4. Trimmed apple trees, cleaned up "einschlags Gruben", uncovered the porch. 5. Uncovered the peaches near the hot bed and hauled dirt to the box. 6. Uncovered the peaches and raked the dirt on the lawn. 7. Transplanted cucumbers and melons, picked (sic) the cauliflower, tied up the peach trees and checked the asparagus. 8. Uncovered the roses in the flower garden. 9. Beautiful weather. 10. Uncovered the roses and raked the dirt onto the lawn. 11. Uncovered the roses and prunus and raked the dirt on the lawn. 12. Planted the fig trees outdoors and spaded the second quarter ground. 13. Spaded the 1st quarter ground and planted both with peas, lettuce, spinach, parsley, carrots, onions and giant asparagus. 14. Beautiful weather. 15. Tied up the roses in front of the master's house and cleaned up there. Took out the grapevines and hauled clutter off the lawn. 16. EASTER SUNDAY-- Beautiful weather. 17. Beautiful weather. 18. Prepared the hotbed and uncovered the artichokes. 19. Sifted dirt for the hot bed planted raspberries, uncovered the rhododendrons. 20. Put dirt on the hotbed, laid foundation for the wall, replanted raspberries. 21. Planted delphiums (sic) into the Schmitthaken, took the bux bushes out and at Margale..... 22. Planted cabbage and kohlrabi and cleaned the kohlrabi beds behind the hedge. 23. Beautiful weather. 24. Spaded the asparagus beds in the 8th quarter and under the plum trees. 25. Dug kitchen greens. 26. Worked in Greve's garden, spaded there, checked the asparagus and sowed kale and cabbage. 27. Sowed seed plants and planted potatoes. 28. Planted seed plalts, spaded some ground, got trees from Potsdam. 29. Sowed wruken, carrot, peas and lettuce. 30. Warm weather. MAY 1865 1. (No entry until the 17th) 17. Mirabilis, commelia and a few asters were planted and the box-tree (beech?) In front of the Gensemann (mansion) was transplanted 18. Beautiful weather 19. Planted the garden schield (sic), mairan and thimean 20. Planted fuchspar and sealfent (sic) 21. Dug the great-fuchspar ditch and weeded the niesche (sic) 22. Planted the great fuchspar and cleaned the asparagus beds 23. Brought the agaves, jikkas and the aloes outdoors, weeded the hothouse plants and brought them outdoors 24. Tidied up the houses and cleaned the tree school (orchard? Nursery?) And put the whole place in order 25. Dark, dreary weather 26. Cleaned behind the Rega and planted summer plants 27. Cleaned the cucumbers and tree school behind the Rega 28. Trimmed the grapes and cleaned the tree school 29. Planted Lehmann's wruken and picked strawberries 30. Laid moss in the moss house behind the Rega Juli/July 1865 1. Das Mooshaus hinter der Rega mit Moos bedekt und Tulpen und Hyacinthen Haus gereinigt Lined the moss house behind the Rega with moss, and took out the tulips and hyacinths 2. Truebes Wetter Dark, dreary weather 3. Salad und Grunkohl gepflantzt und den frischen Rasen gemaeht Planted lettuce and broccoli and mowed the fresh (new?) Lawn 4. Rosen veredelt, Rosenschule reingemacht, Blumenkohl gepflantzt und den andere Kohl hehackt Grafted roses, cleaned the rose school (nursery?), planted cauliflower and hoed the other kale plants 5-6. Wein beschnitten und Kohl gehackt Trimmed the grapes and hoed the cabbage 7. Poree und Sellerie gehackt. Kirschen zum einmachen und einige Misttbeet Fenster zurechtgemacht Hoed the leeks and celery. Picked cherries for canning and fixed some hot house windows 8. Pelargonien pikirt, Nelken aufgebunden und Land unter den Pflaumenbaeumen gegraben und mit Grunkohl gepflanzt Staked the pelargoniums, tied up the cloves, and spaded the earth under the plum trees and planted it with kale 9. Truebes Wetter Unsettled weather 10. Rasen und Blumengarten gemaeht and Wrucken gepflanzt. Mowed the lawn and flower garden and planted wrucken 11. Rasen gemaeht Mowed the lawn(s) 12. Rase gemaeht und Blumengarten reingemacht Mosed the lawn and cleaned the flower garden 13. Kanten abgestochen und Thyonian und Mehrkolh reingemacht Trimmed the edges (of the lawn?) And cleaned the thyonian and mehrkohl (sic) 14. Kanten abgestochen und Wege reingemacht Trimmed and cleaned the paths 15. Schoenes Wetter Beautiful weather 16. (No entry) 17. Wege in Garten reingemacht Cleaned the garden paths 18. Erbsen bestreucht und gemintert Cleaned and staked the peas 19. Erdbeeren reingemacht und Rosen gegraben Cleaned the strawberries and dug roses 20. Erdbeeren rein genommen Cleaned strawberries 21. Weranden angebunden und Stachelbeeren gepflueckt Tied up the porch (vines) and picked gooseberries 22. Rosen gegossen Watered roses 23. Schoenes Wetter Beautiful weather 24. Lehmanns Roggen eingefahren und Johannesbeeren gepflueckt Hauled in Lehmann's rye and picked currants 25. Wege reingemacht und Lehmanns Roggen gedroschen Cleaned paths and threshed Lehmann's rye 26. Wruckensamen abgenommen und Erbsen zu Sack Gathered wruken seed and peas 27. Einige grosse Myrthen Baum umbepflanzt und die frisch gepflantzen Rosen gegossen Transplanted some large myrtle trees and watered the newly-planted roses 28. Lehmanns schlafschance und Obst gepflueckt Picked Lehmann's (?) And fruit 29. Gegraben Dug ditches 30. Schoenes Wetter Beautiful weather 31. Wein und Pfirsich geerntet Picked grapes and peaches August 1865 (All English from here on) 1. Picked fruit and cleaned the small tree school (nursery?) On the Rega 2. Trimmed grapes and cleaned the tree school 3. Watered the rose school and trimmed grape vines 4. Trimmed the grape vines in our own garden and in the master's garden 5. Cleaned the seed plantings and mowed the new lawn 6. Rainy weather 7. Spaded the pea ground and sowed turnips 8. Cleaned seed beds 9. Spaded the potato garden and sowed turnips 10. Cut the cloves and planted Chinese cloves 11. Tied up the peaches 12. Cleaned the paths and mowed the new lawn 13. Beautiful weather 14. Hauled peat 15. Hauled peat and collected lettuce seed 16. Hauled peat and picked peas for seed 17-18. Hauled peat 19. Tied up the porch vines and cleaned seeds in the house 20. Beautiful weather 21. Mowed lawn in the flower garden 22. Mowed the new lawn and cleaned the flower garden 23. Winnowed grass seed, picked pears and mowed the lawn 24. Mowed the lawn in front of the moss house and raked it up right away 25. Tied up the vines at the Messig (sic) and cleaned ditches 26. Got some grass seed and tied up the peaches 27. Beautiful weather 28. Tied up the peaches, mowed lawn and cleaned ditches 29-30. Mowed lawn and hauled in Lehmann's peat 31. Hauled in Lehmann's peat and mowed lawn September 1865 1. Hoed the green kale, mowed lawn and did some spading 2. Mowed the new lawn and pulled the Russian onions 3. Rainy weather 4. Cleaned the asparagus bed, trimmed the beech hedge, gathered carrot seed 5. Cleaned asparagus and transplanted a few camillias 6. Transplanted a few things and got a load of heath dirt 7-9. Cleaned paths 10. Dreary, windy weather 11. Cleaned paths 12. Cleaned behind the Rega 13. Prepared some hot bed boxes for mulching plants 14. Cleaned the tree school 15. Cleaned the maiden (sic) pathway and mowed lawn in the flower garden 16. Cleaned the flower garden 17. Beautiful weather 18. Mowed the lawn in front of the moss house 19. Picked plums and cleaned the cabbage 20. Fixed a 4-window hotbed and planted small pelargonias into it 21. Painted the hothouse and cleaned the artichokes 22. Mowed lawn 23. Cleaned paths 24. Beautiful weather 25. Picked seed beans 26. Painted the greenhouse 27. Dug Lehmann's potatoes 28. Cut cucumbers for seed 29. Brought the big myrtle and orange trees indoors 30. Tidied up in the house October 1865 1. Beautiful weather 2. Took the plants away from the Parang (sic) 3. Brought the big fuschias into the house. 4. Tied up the plants 5. Arranged the plants in the house 6. Dug potatoes 7. Brought up the hortensiens from the stone wall and dug potatoes 8. Beautiful weather 9. Picked fruit 10. Put things in the house in order 11. Put the cannas and caladiums into the hot bed 12. Dug up the giroginias, mirabelles, columbines and cyalis 13. Planted heliotrope, guven, bowardien and phigelien (sic) 14. Planted verbena and dug the potatoes in the pond garden 15. Beautiful weather 16. Brought the garden tools in 17. Dug turnips and brought the hortensien into the house 18. Put manure and plants into the cold box 19. Covered the cardie (sic) in the fruit cellar with sand 20. Got cane (bamboo?) From Regenwalde 21. Dug turnips 22. Dark, dreary day 23. Gathered parsley and planted winterlevken and lak (sic) 24. Garhered parsley and hunted wild rose shoots 25. Put up carrots 26. Dug up sugar beets and Lehmann's wruken 27. Hauled manure for Lehmann 28. Threshed some seeds of the seed plants 29. Beautiful weather 30. Spaded ground for tulips and hianinten (sic) 31. Planted the Wappen (?) With prinela and auriekeln, dug the new rose ditches. Other days we raked leaves and cut and tied the newly planted wild grape vines The diary is signed at this point "Hermann Schlueter, Ornshagen, November 1, 1865". He was sixteen years old! This is all I presently have of the Gartenarbeitbuch, though the original book is still in the family. Hermann kept a log of their expenses for emigration: From Wangerin to Berlin 6 marks From Berlin to Bremen 13 marks Meals in Bremen 5 marks For overweight 6 marks From Baltimore to Omaha 108 dollars Overweight to Chicago 10 dollars Overweight to Omaha 12 dollars Meals in Chicago 6 dollars Meals in Omaha 6 dollars Omaha to Fremont 14 dollars Meals in Fremont 4.30 dollars Trunks to Fremont 2 dollars Translation in Omaha 60 cents Fremont to Beemer 11 dollars For new money in Fremont ? Family history says that Hermann wrote this little poem before leaving
Pommern, though it sounds more like World War I vintage: Einig Deutschland eng verbunden Wahren Rechtes treuer Hort Endlich heilen deine Wunden Freiheit wird dein Losungswort Du mein Deutschland einst verkannt Stehe fest O Vaterland. Translated: United Germany narrowly connected True right's loyal hoard Finally, your wounds heal Freedom becomes your motto-word You my Germany once misjudged Be certain O fatherland. David Wendt 1216 Kauai Court Indianapolis IN 46217 wendt@indy.net
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