The Natural History of Selborne

Took possession of Selborne curacy.

Nep. Ben White left me: me stayed a few days.

Mr Taylor took possession of Selborne vicarage.

Sister Henry White, & her daughter came.

Gathered-in the early pippins, called white apples: a great crop.

Nep. Ben White left me: he stayed a few days.

Martins cling, & cluster in a very particular manner against the wall of my stable and brew-house; also on the top of the may-pole.  This clinging, at this time of year only, seems to carry somewhat significant with it.

Mr Randolph left us.  The autumn-sown spinage turns-out a fine crop: but it is much too thick. We draw it for use.

The heats are so great, & the night so sultry, that we spoil joints of meat, in spite all the care that can be taken.

Uncrested wrens seem to be withdrawn.  Mr Richardson’s wall fruit at Bramshot-place is not good-flavoured, nor well-ripened & his vines are so injured by the cold, black summer, as not to be able to produce any fruit, or good wood for next year.  Mr Dennis’s vines at Bramshot also are in poor state.