Some of the oaks, planted on the commons between Odiham & Reading about the time that I first knew that road, begin to be felled. Swallows. Goslings. Cherries, apples, & pears in beautiful bloom along the road: grass forward, & corn looks well.
Mowed some coarse grass in the orchard for the horses.
The merise, or wild cherries in vast bloom. Grass grows, & clover looks very fine. Mr & Mrs B. White, & Hannah left us & went to Newton.
Finished weeding, & dressing all the flower-borders. Several nightingales between the village, & comb-wood pond. Comb-wood coppice was cut last winter.
Mr Chandler & son went away on a visit. Began to use the winter lettuce. Tho’ a swallow or two were seen in the village as long ago as the 7th yet have they absconded for some time past! The house-martin is also withdrawn; no Swift has yet appeared at Selborne; what was seen was at Bentley.
A nightingale sings in my outlet. Sowed sweet peas, candy-tuft, sweet alyssum, &c. A man brought me half a dozen good mushrooms from a pasture field! a great rarity at this season of the year!
Mountain snow-drops blow. Black thorns blossom. Hannah White walks up to the alcove before breakfast.
Timothy the tortoise marches forth on the grass-plot and grazes.
The early beech in the long Lythe shows leaves fully expanded.
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