The Natural History of Selborne

Dame’s violets blow, & are very double.

Much damage done to the corn, grass & hops by the hail; & many windows broken! Vast flood at Gracious street! vast flood at Kaker bridge! Nipped-off all the rose-buds on the tree in the yard opposite the parlor window in order to make a bloom in the autumn. No bloom succeeded.

A pair of fern-owls haunt round the zig-zag. Columbines make a fine show; this is the third year of their blowing.

The single white thorn over the ash-house is one vast globe of blossoms down to the ground.  Laburnums, berberries, &c. covered with bloom.  Peonies in flower.

Cinnamon rose blows.

Standard honey-suckles, having lost their first shoots by the frosts, will produce little bloom this summer.

Tulips are gone.  The heat injures the flowers in bloom.  St foin in full bloom.  Fly-catcher has five eggs.

Grass-walks burn very much.  Ground chops.  Roses begin to blow.  Wheat spindles for ear.

The limes show their bracteal leaves, & rudiments of blossoms.  Sweet Williams begin to blow.

Red valerian blows.  Terrible riots in London: & unpresidented burnings, & devastations by the mob.