The Natural History of Selborne

The Fly-catcher comes to my vines, where probably it was bred, or had a nest last year. it is the latest summer bird, & appears almost to a day! “Amusive bird, say where your snug retreat?”! The white apples are out of bloom, being forward, the Dearling, a late keeping apple, but just in bloom. So the earlier the fruit ripens the sooner the tree blossoms. The Dearling bears only once in two years, but then an enormous burthen. It has produced 10, & 13 bushels of fruit at a crop. The bloom this year is prodigious! [late note:] the crop moderate, & the fruit small.