The Natural History of Selborne

Dr Chandler mows the church-litton closes for hay.  Farmer Parsons houses pease, which have been hacked for weeks.  Barley abroad.

Master Hale houses barley that looks like old thatch.  Much barley about the country, & some wheat.  Some pheasants found in the manour.  The sound of great guns was heard distinctly this day to the S.E. probably from Goodwood, where the Duke of Richmond has a detachment from the train of artillery encamped in his park, that he may try experiments with some of the ordnance.

Wheat out at Buriton, Froxfield, Ropely, & other places.

Gathered-in the white pippins, about a bushel; many were blown down last week.  Oats housed.

Hop-picking becomes general; & the women leave their gleaning in the wheat-stubbles.  Wheat grows as it stands in the shocks.

Floods out in several parts of the kingdom, & much hay & corn destroyed. Young buzzards follow their dams with a piping, wailing noise.

Men bind their wheat all day.  The harvesters complain of heat.  The hand-glass cucumbers begin to bear well: red kidney beans begin to pod.

Farmer Tull begins to reap wheat.  The hop-garden at Kimber’s fails again, & looks black.

Alton

Rye cut & bound at Clapham.  Wheat looks well, & turns colour. Hay making at Farnham: pease are hacking near the town; hops distempered.

Onions rot.  Barley round the village very fine.