The Natural History of Selborne

Black weather.  Cucumber fruit swells.  Rooks sit.  This day the dry weather has lasted a month.

Raw fog.  Canes femininae catuliunt.

Cock pheasant crows.  Blue stinking mist.

Ground is all dust.  Sowed various sorts of seeds from the physic-garden at Oxford.

Apricot is covered with boards.  Lucern is 6 inches & 3/4 high; burnet 5 inch. & 1/2.

Blue mist; & the smell (as the Country people say) of London smoke.

Cucumber shows rudiments of fruit.  Turned out pots of cucumber into the great bed.

Made the four-light Cucumr bed with 8 cart-loads of dung.  Cucumr blows in male bloom.

The Ground and paths drie very fast.  Wheat is fed down by sheep.  Beans are planted in ye fields.  Pease sown.  Cut down the new planted nectarines.

Cucumrs shew side-shoots.  Female yew tree shows rudiments of fruit.