The Natural History of Selborne

The young Bantam hen brought out only three chickens.  Showers that wetted the blades of corn, & grass, but did not descend to the root.  Ground very hard.

Watered well the white poplar at the foot of the bostal. Cut the slope hedge in the Bakers hill.  Mrs. Clement, & children came.

Sowed two rows of large white kidney-beans: but the ground is so hard, that it required much labour to make it fit to receive the seed.  The old Bantam brought out only three chickens.

Men’s St foin burns, & dies away.  The farmers on the sands complain that they have no grass.

Cinnamon-rose blows.

The ground sadly burnt up.  Royal russets show much bloom.  Summer cabbage comes in.

Bror. Benjn. & I measured my tall beech in Sparrow’s hanger, which, at five feet from the ground, girths six feet one inch, and three quarters.

Timothy is very voracious:  when he can get no other food he eats grass in the walks.

My great oak abounds in bloom, which is of a yellowish cast: the young shoots usually look red. The house-martins at Mareland, in the few hot days, began to build, but when the winds became cold again immediately desisted.

Fyfield sprung a brace of pheasants in Sparrow’s hanger.  Hail-like clouds about.