The Natural History of Selborne

Ground much chopped and burnt.  Gave the garden many hoghs. of water: watered the rasps well with the engine.

Light showers, not enough to lay the dust, chilly.  Stachys germanica.

Not rain enough to lay the dust.

Wheat begins to blow.  Finished my hay, which is curious.  Watered the garden: nothing grows. Cucumbers cease to bear.  The drought has lasted three weeks this day.

Sun sultry, cloudless, severe heat.  Hottest day.  Ricked all the hay, save one job, in most excellent order.  Ground much burnt.

Hay in beautiful order.  Gardens suffer much for want of rain.

Hay makes well.  Flisky clouds, & some rock-like clouds.  Sambucus nigra.  When the elder blows summer is established.

A brood of swallows, flyers, appear for the first time. Cut great part of the great meadow.

Sweet hay-making day.  Put all the St. foin up in a large cock in excellent order: four large jobs.

Brother John sailed from Cadiz for England.