The Natural History of Selborne

Cut my St foin, the 11th crop.  Weeds obtain much, & the crop grows thinner every year.

Young broods of moor-hens appear.  Lettuces that stood the winter are very fine.  Cut my St. foin: it is in full bloom, & a good crop:  this is the seventh crop…. swifts have eggs, but do not sit. Do they lay more than two?

St foin blows, & gets very tall.

Sphinx filipendula.  Emerges from it’s aurelia state.  Fixes it’s cods to the dry twigs in hedges;  is called in Hants the St foin fly; & is in its crawling state said to be very pernicious to that plant.