The Natural History of Selborne

Onions rot.  Barley round the village very fine.

Cut 158 cucumbers.  Nep. Ben White, & wife, & little Ben & Glyd came from Fyfield.

Cut 140 cucumbers.  Hops light, & not very good.  Sister Barker & Molly & Betsy left us, & went to London: Charles White also, & Bessy returned to Fyfield.

Two stone-curlews in a fallow near Southington.  A fern-owl flies over my house.

Hardly here and there a wasp to be seen.

Boiled a mess of autumnal spinage, sown Aug. 3rs.  Nep J. White left us, & returned to Sarum.  There is a fine thriving oak near the path as you go to Combwood, just before you arrive at the pond, round which, at about the distance of the extremities of the boughs, may be seen a sort of circle in the grass, in which the herbage appears dry & withered, as if a fariy-ring was beginning.  I remember somewhat of the same appearance at the same place in former years.

Some hop-poles blown donw.  Mr Prowting of Chawton begins to pick hops.