The Natural History of Selborne

A plant of missel-toe grows on a bough of the medlar: it abounds on my hedges on the maple.  The air is full of Insects.  Turkies strut & gobble.  Many young lambs at the Priory.

Bees play out from their hives.  Spring-like.  The Barometr at S. Lambeth was this day at 30-6-10: a sure token that S. Lambeth is much lower than Selborne.

The air is full of gnats, & tipulae.  Gossamer about.  The paths are dry like summer.

Planted out Sweet-Williams, vine, & goose-berry cuttings, honey-suckle cuttings; & several crab stocks grafted from a curious & valuable green apple growing at South Lambeth in Surrey.

The well is risen two rounds.  Planted about a doz. of the roots of the Spiraea filipendula sent me from Lyndon.  Sr George Baker directed Mrs Barker to take these roots powdered for the gravel.  This plant does not grow with us, but is common at Salisbury plain, & the downs about Winton, & Andover, appearing among the bushes, & flowering about midsummer.

Hares eat all the pinks.

Rear Adm. Sr Samuel Hood sailed with 8 ships of the line.

Timothy lies very snug but does not get any deeper.

Multitudes of Starlings appear at Newton, & run feeding about in the grass-fields.  No number is known to breed in these parts.  This is therefore an emigration from some other district.

Some animal eats off the pinks.