The Natural History of Selborne

Mr. B. & wife left us.

Bramblings are seen: they are winter-birds of passage, &  come with the hen-chaffinches.  Nep. Ben. White & wife came.

Covered the artichokes, & rhubarb with litter, & the spinage, & the Yucca filimentosa with straw; & the few brown lettuces with straw.  Mr Churton came.

Dark & wet.  Shower, a short, but violent gust.  Lightening.

The season has been so mild that the Antirrhinum Cymb. still flourishes, & continues in bloom.

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.