The Natural History of Selborne

St foin begins to be damaged.

Great hail-storm at Alton St foin not yet turned.

The King came down to Portsmouth to see the fleet.

* June the 22 : 23 : 24. The firings at Spithead were so great that they shook this house. They were heard on those days at Ringmer two miles east of Lewes in Sussex; & at Epsom in Surry.

First brood of young swallows comes forth more early than usual.  They commonly appear about the first week in July.

Young wild-ducks, or flappers are taken at Oakhanger-pond; & a small Anas olive, which seemed to me to be a young teal: turned it into James Knight’s ponds.

Some ears of wheat begin to appear.  Measles epidemic to a wonderful degree: whole families down at a time.  Several children that had been reduced by the whooping-cough dyed of them.

Sheep are shorn.

Great rains in the night.  Planted-out a bed of Savoys.  No apples or pears.

Sanicula europaea.  Lysimacha nemorum.  Bees swarm.  Pease in the fields thrive wonderfully.  Thunder.

Elder begins to blow.  When the elder blows-out the summer is at its height.