The Natural History of Selborne

Turner shoots the chaffinches.  Mackarals come.  Bantam-hen lays.  Black & grey snails without shells.

Chaffinches pull off the blossoms of the polyanths, which are beautifully variegated.

Some swallows were seen over the lake of Geneva, & at Rolle.  On March 30 several were seen at the same place.

Timothy continues to lie very close.

Swallows were first seen this year at Messina in Sicily.

Transplanted some of the best, blowing seedling polyanths from the orchard to the bank in the garden.  Planted some scorpion-sennas from S. Lambeth.

Timothy hides his head under the earth.

The tortoise comes forth from his hole.  Men open their hop-hills & cut their hops.

Sent me from South Lambeth, two Nectarine-trees; several sorts of curious pinks; some mulberry rasps some scarlet lichnis’s; a root of Monk’s rhubarb.

Women sow wheat.  Gossamer abounds.  Sowed a bed of Celeri under a hand-glass.