The Natural History of Selborne

The cucumber shoot out fibers down their hills; earthed them a little.  Thomas mowed the dark green grass growing on the Fairy circles, & segments of circles in my grass plot, which encrease in number every year.

Players left us.

Wind damages the hedges.  Some thatch torn by the wind.  Mr White’s tank at Newton runs over, & Capt. Dumaresque’s is near full.

Some players came hither from Alton.  A hand-glass of early celeri entirely eaten-up by the Chrysomela oleracea saltatoria, vulgarly called the turnip-fly.  Sowed more.

Stormy, wet night.  Mrs Clement, & daughters left us.  Berriman’s field measured contains 1 acre 3 qur. 25 rods.

Mrs Chandler was brought to bed of a daughter.

The ground in a sad wet condition, so that men cannot plow, nor sow their spring-corn.  A wet March is very unkind for this district.

Crocus’s go off.  The Kingsley miller assures me that he saw a Swallow skimming over the meadow near the mill.  Hirundines are often seen early near mill-ponds, & other waters.

Mrs Clement came with her three daughters.

Timothy the Tortoise comes out.  Crown imperials bud for bloom, & stink much.