The after-grass in the great meadow burns. The sheep-down burns & is rusty. Much water in the pond on the hill! This morning Will Tanner shot, off the tall meris-trees in the great mead, 17 young black-birds. The cherries of these trees amuse the birds & save the garden-fruit.
Few hazel-nuts. Men house field-pease. Ponds are dry. Grass-walks burn. Ripening weather.
Preserved a good quantity of currans, & some rasps, cherries, & apricots.
Wasps swarm so that we were obliged to gather-in all the cherries under the net.
My china-holly-hocks, after standing a year or two, lose all their fine variegated appearance, & turn to good common sorts, being double, & deeply coloured.
Some wheat reaped at Faringdon. Boys bring two more wasps nests.
Trenched two more rows of celeri in the upper end of the plot by W. Dewey’s: the ground mellow. We plant out the cabbage-kind some few at a time. The boys bring me a large wasp’s nest full of maggots.
Men talk that some fields of wheat are blighted: in general the crop looks well. Barley looks finely, & oats & pease are very well: Hops grow worse, & worse.
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