The Natural History of Selborne

Timothy heaves up the mould, & comes out of his hibernacula under the wall-nut tree.

Daws are building in the church.  Nightingale sings at French-mere.

Planted 12 goose-berry trees, & three monthly roses, & three Provence roses.  Mr & Mrs Taylor left Selborne.

Planted 1 doz. of white currans, & six of goose-berry trees, with many rasp-plants on the orchard-side of the bank.  Turned-out the cucumber-plants into the hills of the bearing-bed; they are large & strong, & began to be too big for the pots.  Sowed onions, & parsnips: the ground is dusty, & works well.  10 pots of Cucumber-plants remain.  Sowed radishes, & lettuce.  Planted one Roman, & one Newington Nectarine-tree against the fruit-wall.

Earthed the cucumber-bed; plastered some fresh cow-dung under the hills.  Sowed two ounces of carrot seed in the garden-plot in the meadow.

Mr Taylor & his Bride came to Selborne.

On this day the streets of Lyons were covered with snow.

Viper comes out.  Two swallows were seen at Nismes in Languedoc: & on the 28th several, tho’ the air was sharp, & some flakes of snow fell.

Some patches of snow still on the hanger: much snow in Newton hollow lane.

Sowed six rows of garden-beans in the meadow; & two in the garden.  Chif-chaf is heard: his notes are loud, & piercing.