The Natural History of Selborne

Hoar frost lies all day.  Frost comes in a door.

Snow gone: flood at Gracious street.

Ice under people’s beds.  Water bottles burst in chambers.  Meat frozen.  The fierce weather drove the snipes out of the moors of the forest up the streams towards the spring-heads.  Many were shot round the village.

Carryed some savoy-heads, endive, & celeri into the cellar: the potatoes have been there some days.  Red breasts die.  Ground covered with ice & snow.

Ground so icy that people get frequent falls.

Mr. Churton came from Oxford.

A fine yellow wagtail appears every day.

Hares make sad havock in the garden: they eat-up all the pinks; & now devour the winter cabbage-plants, the spinage, the parsley, the celeri, &c.  As yet they do not touch the lettuces.

Planted 4 small spruce firs, & 2 Lombardy poplars in Baker’s hill; & one spruce fir in farmer Parsons’s garden.

Fetched some mulleins, foxgloves, & dwarf-laurels from the high-wood & hanger; & planted them in the garden.