The Natural History of Selborne

Men wash their sheep.  Mr. John Muslo left us.

Cut four cucumbers.  Mr. John Muslo came.

Cut ten cucumbers.

Bright, sun, golden even. Cut eight cucumbers. Mrs. Clement & children left us. Many swifts.

A man brought me a large plate of straw-berries, which were crude, & not near ripe.  The ground all as hard as iron: we can sow nothing nor plant out.

Cut five cucumbers.

Early orange-lilies blow.  Few chafers.  The water at Kingsley mill begins to fail. The land-spring in the stoney-lane, as you go to Rood, stops.  We draw much water for the garden: the well sinks very fast.

The young Bantam hen brought out only three chickens.  Showers that wetted the blades of corn, & grass, but did not descend to the root.  Ground very hard.

Watered well the white poplar at the foot of the bostal. Cut the slope hedge in the Bakers hill.  Mrs. Clement, & children came.

Sowed two rows of large white kidney-beans: but the ground is so hard, that it required much labour to make it fit to receive the seed.  The old Bantam brought out only three chickens.