The Natural History of Selborne

Distant clouds, sultry, thunder-clouds.  Sulphurous smell in the air.  Sweet, even, small shower.  Strawberries blow well.  Medlar shows much bloom.  Honey-suckles blow.  Fern-owl chatter: chur-worm jars.  The tortoise shuns the intense heat by covering itself with dead grass; & does not eat ’til the afternoon.  Terrible storms in the Oxfordshire, & my Wilts.

Columbines, a fine variegated sort, blow.

Dames violets, double, blow finely:  roses bud:  tulips gone: pinks bud.  Bees begin to swarm.  Tacked the vines the first time.  Began to plant out annuals in the basons in the field.  Ponds & some wells begin to be dry.

Shower in the night.  Planted-out vast quantities of annuals both in the borders, & basons; both in the fields, & gardens.

Roses begin to blow:  pinks bud; fraxinella blows.  Garden burnt to powder.

Finished tacking the vines for the first time.  Planted-out annuals in theh basons down the field.

Planted vast rows of China-asters in the Garden.

Sanicula europaea.  Lysimacha nemorum.  Bees swarm.  Pease in the fields thrive wonderfully.  Thunder.

Began to tack the vines, which are backward.  Crataegus aria blows beautifully.

Poygala vulg. in flower.  Mole-cricket churs.