The Natural History of Selborne

Mr & Mrs Ed. White left us.  The Hermitage, new capped with a coat of thatch, & embellished with a large cross, makes a very picturesq object on the hanger, & takes the eye agreeably.

Put a large cross on the hermitage.  A trufle-hunter tryed my tall hedges, & found some bulbs of those peculiar plants, which have neither roots, nor branches, nor stems.

Mr & Mrs Edmd White came.

3 gallons of brandy from London

Well rises very fast.

Thunder in the night.  Thomas heard the Portsmouth evening gun.

Planted a row of Hyacinths on the verge of the fruit-border; & tulips along the broad walk.  Planted winter-cabbages.  Potatoes dug up.

Planted one doz. of red hairy gooseberries, & one doz. of smooth amber, from Armstrong, in the quarters of the garden.  Gathered-in the grapes: decaying.  Two rills run now into my well, the water of which begins to get clear.

Grey, gleams.  Snow gone.

The late rains have not had any influence yet on my well-water, which is very low, & foul.  Snow on the Sussex downs.