About nine in the evening a large shining meteor appeared falling from the S. towards the E. in a inclination of about 45 degrees, & parting in two before I lost sight of it. I was in Baker’s Hill in the shrubbery, having a very bad horizon; & therefore could not see how and where it fell.
Our fields of pease are in a sad lousy order.
Finished cutting the St foin, which has stood full long. The 14th crop. Sold it to John Hale. In some parts a good burden.
Much thunder, & vast showers to the westward. Vast storm & rain at Winton. These storms were very terrible at Sarum, & in the vale of the white-horse, etc.
A strange swarm of bees came and settled on my Balm of Gilead fir.
The st foin is in a bad way about the neighbourhood.
My garden in nice order, & full of flowers in bloom. Lilies, roses, fraxinellas, red valerians, Iris’s, &c., now make a gaudy show.
We have planted-out a vast show of annuals, which will want no watering.
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