The Natural History of Selborne

The late frost cut-down the fern, & scorched many trees.  Wheat spindles for ear.

Goose-berries, & currans are coddled on the trees by the frost.  Planted the basons in the fields with the annuals.  Began to tack the vine-shoots:  there will be a tollerable bloom.  The potatoes in the meadow seem to be all killed.  Aphides prevail on the many fruit-trees.  Medlar-tree blows.  The sun at setting shines up my great walk.

Young redstarts.

Not one spring chafer this year.

The frost cut down all the early kidney-beans, injured the annuals; & made the apple-trees cut much of their fruit.

Stocks blow, & are very double and handsome!

Wells sink: Benham’s is dry.  Sprinkled & washed the foliage of the fruit-trees, that were honey-dewed, & began to be affected with aphides.  Stocks blow finely.  Tulips, thro’ heat, will continue but a small time in bloom.

Sowed a crop of kidney-beans.  large white Dutch.  Planted some basons in my field with China-asters, & China pinks.  Pricked out many China asters, on a mild hot-bed.  Honey-suckles stocks, & wall-flowers smell sweetly.  Tulips blow out but their cups will be much larger.  The large Apricot-tree much infested with maggots, which twist & roll-up the leaves; these we open, & destroy the maggots, which would devour most of the foliage.  These maggots are the produce of small spotted phalaenae.

Apple-trees in high bloom; in danger from the frost.

Some ponds, & ditches dry, & cleansed out.