The Natural History of Selborne

Hail in the night.  Flights of snow at times: harsh biting day.  Themomr abroad at 10 at night, down to 14 degrees!!!

Swallow appears as last year amidst frost & snow!

The dry weather has lasted just a month this day.  Dry weather is always supposed to help the wheat in the clays: but the wheat in general is so poor this year, that it is hardly seen on the ground.  It will be worth remarking at harvest how the crop will turn out.

Regulus non crist: minor.  The second spring-bird of passage.  No rain since the 16th of March: dirty lanes all dryed up.

Wryneck pipes about in orchards.

Began to be confined.

Ring-ouzel.  Pleasant day, but every thing quite dryed up.  No lambs frolic & play as usual… acrior illos Cura domat — Virg.

Planted potatoes, & sowed carrots, parsneps, onions, coss-lettuce, leeks.

Butterflies appear again.  Some flies begin to appear.  Spring-like day, sharp in the morning.

Mr Woods, of Chilgrove, had on this day 27 acres of spring-sown wheat not then sprouted out of the ground: & yet he had a good crop from those fields, no less than 4 quarters an acre!