The Natural History of Selborne

The Papilio Machaon never appeared but once in my garden.

Sowed a crop of spinage for the winter, and spring, & trod the seed well in.

My pendent pantry, made of deal & fine fly-wire, & suspended in the great wallnut tree, proves an incomparable preservative rfor meat against flesh-flies.  The flesh by hanging in a brisk current of air becomes dry on the surface, & keeps ’til it is tender without tainting.

Several broods of blackbirds & thrushes devour the currans, &c.: ’til the wild cherries are eaten they do not annoy the garden.

Papilio Machaon alis caudatis, concoloribus, flavis, limbo fusco, lunulis flavis, angulo ani fulvo, appears in my garden, being the first specimen of this species that I ever saw in this district.  In Essex & Sussex they are more common.  A person brought me a young snipe from the forest.

Much latter-grass in delicate order.  Wheat turns very fast.  Old wheat rises in price.