The Natural History of Selborne

Thermometer at Fyfield 72! in the shade.

Men how their wheat, which is very forward, & fine. Thomas in my absence planted beans, & sowed carrots, parsnips, cabbage-seed, onions, lettuce, & radishes.

Hot sun. Goslins on commons. Black thorn blossoms.

Nightingale sings.  Cuckoo is heard.  Timothy the tortoise weighs 6 ae 11 1/2 oz.

The cucumber shoot out fibers down their hills; earthed them a little.  Thomas mowed the dark green grass growing on the Fairy circles, & segments of circles in my grass plot, which encrease in number every year.

Players left us.

Wind damages the hedges.  Some thatch torn by the wind.  Mr White’s tank at Newton runs over, & Capt. Dumaresque’s is near full.

Some players came hither from Alton.  A hand-glass of early celeri entirely eaten-up by the Chrysomela oleracea saltatoria, vulgarly called the turnip-fly.  Sowed more.

Stormy, wet night.  Mrs Clement, & daughters left us.  Berriman’s field measured contains 1 acre 3 qur. 25 rods.