The Natural History of Selborne

Dan Wheeler plants his field with beans.

Bror Thomas came from Fyfield.

Received from London a quarter of an hundred of Salt fish.

Some thaws.  Load of straw brought in.

The dry summer killed the new planted Sycamore on the plestor.

Mr Churton left us & went to Waverly.

Old John Carpenter planted a Sycamore tree on the Plestor near the pound.  Furze blows.  The amenta of hasels open & shed their farina.  Ivy-berries swell.

The woodmen begin to fell beeches in the hanger for the second time: they now enter where they left off last year on the S.E. side of Shop-slidder.

A flood at Gracious street.

Contracted my great parlor chimney by placing stone-jams on the top of the grate on each side, & building brick-work on the jams as high as the work-man could reach.  This expedient has entirely cured the smoking, & given the chimney a draught equal to that in the old parlor.