The Natural History of Selborne

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.

Some few grapes just eatable: a large crop.  Housed all the billet wood.  Leaves fall in showers.  A curlew is heard loudly whistling on the hill towards the Wadden. On this day Mrs S. Barker was brought to bed of a boy, who advances my nepotes to the round & compleat number of 60.

Hired two old labourers to house my cleft billet wood, which is still in a dam, cold condition, & should have been under cover some months ago, had the weather permitted.

Dr Bingham & family left Selborne.

Made presents of berberries to several neighbours.  Ring-ouzel seen in the King’s field.