The Natural History of Selborne

Hibiscus syriacus.  Grapes begin to change colour.  Some wheat still out.  The weather bad for hop-picking.

Mich. daisy begins to blow.

Hop-picking begins.  Sultry.  Wheat housed in cold condition.  Orleans-plums become ripe.

Wheat begins to grow under hedges.

Much wheat abroad.  Strong gusts.  Much rain.  The ground is well-moistened.

Trench more celeri.  Sowed spinage.  Hops suffer from the wind.  Planted small cabbages.

Sun.  Showers with wind.  Vast showers.  Young stoparolas come forth.

Planted-out endive, & trenched some celeri.  Ground strangely hard, & bound: will require much rain to soften it.  Invigorated by this burning season such legions of Chrysomelae oleraceae saltatoriae (vulg: called turnep-flies) swarm in the fields that they destroy every turnep as fast as it springs: they abound also in gardens, & devour not only the tender plants, but the tough outer leaves of cabbages.  When disturbed on the cabbages they leap in such multitueds as to make a pattering noise on the leaves like a shower of rain. They seem to relish the leaves of the horse-radish.

Young swallows come forth.  Orleans plums begin to change color.  Dark clouds in the S.E.

Barometer falls very fast.  Vast rock-like clouds abound.  The drought lasted 10 weeks & four days.