The Natural History of Selborne

Cut down & covered the artichokes: covered the rhubarb plants; & the lettuces under the fruit-wall, & the spinage very lightly with straw.

Snow covers the ground, snow shoe deep.

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.