My horses taken into the stable & not to lie out any more a nights. New coped the top of my kitchen-chimney, mended the tiling, & toached the inside of the roofing to keep out the drifting snow.
The young men of this place found a stray fallow deer at the back of the village, which they roused, & hunted with grey hounds, & other dogs. When taken it proved to be a buck of three years old.
Planted out many young laurustines, & Portugal laurels from the old stools.
Bror Th. W. sows laburnum seed on the hanger, & down. A wood-cock killed in the high wood.
Mended the planks of the zigzag. Bro. Tho. White sowed the naked part of the hanger with great quantities of hips, haws, sloes, & holly-berries. In May last he sowed a pound of furze seeds on the same naked space; many of which appear to have grown: & lately he sowed two pounds more. *added note: Decembr 1790. As fast as any of these seeds have sprouted, they have constantly been brouzed off, & bitten down by the sheep, which lie very hard on them, & will not suffer them to thrive.
Woodcock seen on the down, among the fern. Finished gathering the apples, many of which are fair fruit. Shoveled the zigzag. Leaves fall. My wall-nut trees, & some ashes are naked.
Gathered in nonpareils, & some royal russets.
Colchicums, a fine double sort, still in bloom. Ivy blows. Some mushrooms with thick stems, & pale gills.
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