The Natural History of Selborne

Timothy comes out.

Mr. Ed. White & man brought a good fine young white poplare from his out-let at Newton, & planted it at ye top of Parson’s, slip behind the bench, where it will be ornamental.

Planted in the garden 2 codling-trees, 2 damson-trees, & 22 goose-berry trees, sent me by Bror. T. W.

On this day Brother Benjamin quitted South Lambeth, & came to reside at His House at Mareland.

Planted 3 quarters of an hundred more cabbages to stand the winter: dug-up potatoes; those in the garden large, & fine, those in the meadow small, & rotting.

Gossamer abounds.  Vast dew lies on the grass all day, even in the sun.

Men sow wheat: but the land-springs break out in some of the Hartley malm-fields.

Planted 100 of cabbages, in ground well dunged, to stand the winter.

Finished piling my wood: housed the bavins; fallows very wet.

Thomas saw a polecat run across the garden.