The Natural History of Selborne

Mushrooms.  Hops distempered.

Wheat housing. Whitethroats still seen.

Hops brown & small, & not esteemed very good. Wheat out still.

Some graps begin to turn colour.  Peaches & Nect. much damaged by the wet.  Blackcaps still.

Most people in Selborne begin picking their hops.  Wheat housed all day.

Wood-owls hoot much.

Turned the horses into the great mead: there is good after-grass considering that the field was not mown ’til July 16.

Hop-picking begins at Faringdon.  Wasps abound.

Spitting rain, with wind all day.  Wheat begins to grow.  Several nectarines rot on the trees.  Peaches rot: plums burst & fall off.

Pulled the first Wrench’s radishes: they are mild & well-flavoured: are long & tap-rooted: bright red above ground, & milk-white under.