The Natural History of Selborne

The snow is at an average about seven inches deep.  As it fell without any wind, it is lodged much on the trees, so that the prospects are very grotesque, & picturesque.

Snow shoe-deep.  Wrote to Dr Chandler at Nismes.

Sowed a crop of radishes, under the  melon-screen & a crop of onions.

Bror Henry & his son Gil. came.

Pleasant season: paths dry.  Men plough & sow.  Large titmouse sings his three notes.

Bullfinches eat the buds of honey-suckles.

Driving rain.  Strong flaws, & gusts with rain, hail, & thunder.

Sowed a good coat of ash on Baker’s hill, & also on the great meadow.  Bought 40 bushels of ashes of Mrs Etty, & 36 bushels of sundry others.  Sowed my own also.

The marsh-timouse begins his two harsh, sharp notes.

The hazels are finely illuminated with male bloom.  Female bloom of hazels appears, & the male-bloom sheds it’s farina.