The Natural History of Selborne

Grey, sun, pleasant, yellow even.

Mr Taylor brought me a pine-apple, which was, for the season, large, & well-flavoured.

Damage by the wind in some places.

Dr Chandler brought a vast pear from the garden of his niece at Hampton, which weighed 20 ounces, & 3/4, & measured in length 6 inches, & 3/4, & in girth 11 inches. It is the sort known by the name of Dr Uvedale’s great Saint Germain.

Took down the urns, & shut up the alcove.

Timothy appears, & flies come-out.

Timothy is gone under a tuft of long grass, but is not yet buried in the ground.

This dry fit has proved of vast advantage to the kingdom; & by drying & draining the fallows, will occasion the growing of wheat on many hundred of acres of wet, & flooded land, that were deemed to be in a desperate state, & incapable of being seeded this season.

Thomas started a hare, which lay in her form under a cabbage, in the midst of my garden.  It has begun to eat the tops of my pinks in many places.  The land-springs, which begin to appear, are much abated.

This dry weather enables men to bring in loads of turf, not much damaged: while scores of loads of peat lie rotting in the Forest.